University of Virginia World War II records, 1938, 1942-1946, 1951.

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University of Virginia World War II records, 1938, 1942-1946, 1951.

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World War II records gathered from several archive and manuscript collections consist chiefly of correspondence; applications, course outlines, instructors' notes, student papers, course work, examinations and grades; financial material including invoices; photographs; and historical material and speeches about World War II. Correspondence consists chiefly of cards and letters to professors Joseph L. Vaughan and William Kepner from former students; letters to Isabella Burnet from B.F.D. Runk and a Lt. Tom Brown; and some correspondence concerning the 8th Evacuation Hospital Unit. University of Virginia involvement in World War II is documented by papers of the pre-meteorological training program including papers from humanities courses taught by University of Virginia Librarian Lester Jesse Cappon, 1943-1945; papers of the Minute Men of 1940, and papers of the Committee on the Preservation of Material on World War II, 1941-1946, which includes minutes of several meetings, and lists of faculty and staff of U. Va. in the armed services and related fields together with a proposal for a comprehensive war history of the University of Virginia to be written by William C. Peden. There are also medical school war service cards for medical alumni in the service; a history of the 3317th Army Specialized Training Unit; remarks of James Hart on V-E day and Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh's speech to medical almumni "And so it rolls." Miscellaneous items of interest include a certificate and lapel pin issued to the Rouss Physical Laboratory by the U.S. Navy for research on guided missles; a commendation to the University of Virginia for participation in the V-12 Program by James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; photographs of the Dawn Patrol training.; minutes from the 1941 annual reunion of members of the University of Virginia's Base Hospital #41; and form letters from Chinese missionaries to [Harry Clemons?] on their lives and events in China, 1938-1944.

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Brown, Tom, Lt,

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Savage, Louise, 1896-1964.

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Luck, James Malcolm, 1893-

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Minute Men of 1940.

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Clemons, Harry, 1879-1968

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Pugh, Herbert Lamont, 1895-

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Virginia War History Commission

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Kepner, William Allison, 1875-

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Newcomb, John Lloyd, 1881-1954

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Burnet, Isabella Neff, 1885- ,

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Runk, B. F. D. (Benjamin Franklin Dewees), 1906-1994

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Mayo, Bernard, 1902-1979

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