The R.B. Thornton papers, 1945.

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The R.B. Thornton papers, 1945.

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Consists of World War II scrapbook containing: autographs of members of the Quartermaster Section of the Army Assembly Area Command (n.d.); map showing the location of the U.S. Army redeployment camps in France (n.d.) ; newspaper clippings about the activities of the Army Assembly Area Command, the redeployment camps in France, U.S.O. shows, dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, women in the war and the Women's Army Corps (1945); and aerial photographs of the redeployment camps located in France.

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