Sherwin L. Barton World War II papers, 1919-1996 (bulk 1940-1945).

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Sherwin L. Barton World War II papers, 1919-1996 (bulk 1940-1945).

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The collection features handwritten remembrances and illustrations of Barton's capture and incarceration in Germany, 1944-1945, held variously in a diary book supplied to prisoners by the American Y.M.C.A, and on loose sheets of illustrations and other documents. Barton inserted prison camp newsletters and other relevant documents into the diary. Additional illustrations by Barton appear in Behind Barbed Wire (1946), a book written by a fellow prisoner, Lieutenant Morris J. Roy. The collection also includes two panorama photographs of his flight training squadrons in California in 1942, a wood and metal collage that he made while at Stalag Luft I, sketches of Barton drawn by fellow prisoners, and diverse military artifacts: badges, medals, bars, pins, wings, and a medallion.

1.55 cubic feet.

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Stalag Luft I

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Roy, Morris J. (Morris John), 1915-

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United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 100th

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Barton, Sherwin L. (Sherwin Lemmon), 1918-1995

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Sherwin Lemmon Barton was born on 7 December 1918, in Parowan, Utah. Raised in California, he left high school in 1937, one semester short of graduation, and then worked as a laborer. Barton was inducted into the U. S. Army on 6 August 1940, and initially stationed in Hawaii. In February 1943 Barton completed pilot school, and was promoted to second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, and on 20 May 1943, he was honorably discharged from the Army and transferred to active service in the Air Corps, ...