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[Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, Box One, Folder 4 - Materials from Aleutian Islands assignment -- correspondence to Helen Jane Klinger from Jackson, military orders, and a military report, 1942] (Item)

Items from Box One, Folder 4 of the Thomas Walter Jackson World War II Collection, circa 1942. Folder contains correspondence and military documents related to Jackson's time stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Includes 19 letters written by Jackson to his wife Helen Jackson, a loose envelope, and five military documents.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 19, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Distinguished Flying Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 6, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, December 6, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Navy Cross. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, November 13, 1946] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, November 13, 1946. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Silver Star. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Bureau of Naval Personnel, May 1, 1947] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, May 1, 1947. Forwards permanent citation for Lindsay's Gold Star. One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S. Navy career of Elvin L. Lindsay, circa 1944-1947.

[Letter to Lee Embree from Reginald S. Jackson, Public Relations Officer, October 26, 1943] (Item)

Letter to Lee Embree from Reginald S. Jackson, Public Relations Officer, October 26, 1943. Thanks Embree for his unit's recent work with the Public Relations Office. One (1) page.

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism as Flight Leader in Fighting Squadron Ninteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, in action against enemy Japanese forces during the Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944." One typed page.Item from a disassembled scrapbook documenting the U.S.…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Distinguished Flying Cross "for distinguishing himself by meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight as pilot of a carrier based fighter aircraft assigned to a strike against enemy installations on an island of the Bonin Group on 5 August 1944." One typed…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from John L. Sullivan, Acting Secretary of the Navy, circa 1945-1947] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from John L. Sullivan, Acting Secretary of the Navy, circa 1945-1947. Presents Lindsay with the Silver Star "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as Pilot of a Fighter Aircraft in Fighting Squadron Nineteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, during action against the enemy Japanese forces in the Philippine Islands Area, from October 21 to 24, 1944." One typed…

[Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945] (Item)

Letter to Elvin L. Lindsay from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, circa 1944-1945. Presents Lindsay with the Distinguishing Flying Cross "for heroism and extraordinary achievement in aerial flight as Pilot of a Fighter Plane in Fighting Squadron Nineteen, attached to the U.S.S. Lexington, during operations against enemy Japanese forces on an island in the Bonin Group, August 5, 1944." One…