Contains the following types of materials: correspondence / letters, memoirs, reports / studies, maps / charts. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). General description of the collection: The Ernest J. (Jack) Rokahr papers include Rokahr's two volume memoir, I NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE WAR, written in the winter of 1945-1946; revised; and rewritten in the winter of 1947-1948. Table of Contents: Chapter 1. C.P.2: Spain, Gibralter, Marseille, Convoy to Alsace, Bischweiler, Gambsheim, Offendorf, Herrlishheim; Chapter 2. Thaon-les-Vosges: Second Replacement Depot, Thaon, Epinal, Nancy, Montbronn, Sengbusch; Chapter 3. Spichern: Bouschbach, Habsterdick, Friedrichstahl, Kaiserslautern; Chapter 4. Gonsenheim-Mainz: Gonsenheim, Rhine Journey, Mandel, Heddesheim; Chapter 5. Wiesbaden: Frankfurt, Sonnenberg, Rambach, Weilburg, Diez; Chapter 6. Jaunts: Spa, Brussels, Koln, To Leipzig with the Russians, London, Edinburg, Paris, Fontainbleau, St. Vrain, 19th Replacement Depot; Chapter 7. 6805: Arlon, The Claims Service, Ambroise Trial, Liege, Bastogne, Luxemburg, Heidelberg, Spichern Revisited; Chapter 8. 6820, 6823: Nice, Riviera, Alpes-Maritimes, Italy, Marseille and Calais Revisited, The "Social Whirl," Grasse, Return to Brussels, Antwerp, Chez Moi. Also present are two maps of the Saarbrucken, Germany area used by Rokahr in 1945; and eleven historical reports/after action reports of Company D, 274th Infantry Regiment from November 1944 to April 1945.
