Contains the following types of materials: correspondence / letters, personnel documents, unit histories, ephemera. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units: Company B, 4th Medical Battalion; Company B, T-939, 6th Medical Training Battalion; 29th Infantry Division Detachment, Training Company # 27, 162nd Quartermaster Platoon Service; 4th Air Service Area Command Motor Pool; 1924th Quartermaster Truck Company, 43rd Service Group; Company I, 115th Infantry; Deshon General Hospital; Medical Detachment, 449th Antiaircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion; Company B, 29th Tank Battalion. General description of the collection: The Bouchard family papers include letters from servicemen to the Bouchard family of Fairfax, Virginia. Some of the letters are from civilians, but the bulk of the letters (4 folders) come from PFC Arnold S. Girard. The correspondence began in 1942 and continued until 1945. The letters come from various training and operational units in the United States (U.S.) and overseas, and are from Army units. Collection also includes personnel documents of Girard, unit histories of the 4th Infantry Division, and ephemera.
