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Title: Address Roster of the 335th Signal Company
Description: Address roster of personnel in the 335th Signal Company in 1945. The list contains the names and home towns of the men in the picture of the company (see https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6516)
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:6515

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - April 17, 1945
Description: Anna Lee writes to Lucille about visiting her parents. She says she continues to pray for the missing crew members and that she hopes they have escaped. She tells Lucille to keep busy her and her husband have bought some chicks.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26512

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - February 13, 1945
Description: Anna Lee writes to ask Lucille if she has had any news about Jimmy. She talks about how she recieved her son's personal items the other day and how hard it was for her to read his letters. She mentions it has now been almost a year since the crew's mission failed.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26511

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - July 16, 1945
Description: Anna Lee writes about missing the presentation of her son's awards due to bad weather conditions. Then, she talks specifically about their son's personal items they recieved. Anna Lee tells Lucille about her two contacts in Germany and France looking for more information on the crew by looking in prison camps and checking graves. She continues to pray for good news.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26513

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - November 3, 1945
Description: Anna Lee asks Lucille again what she has heard or read in regards to their sons. She tells Lucille about her contacts that she has that are actively looking for information.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26508

Title: Hazel Datz to Lucille Ley - January 2, 1945
Description: Hazel informs Lucille that she has read and forwarded the Christmas card to her son John who is a fighter pilot stationed in the South Pacific. She emphasizes how sad she and John were to hear that Jimmy is missing. She informs Lucille that John is not returning home until at least March. She expresses solidarity as another mother of a soldier and encourages Lucille to have courage and to hold out hope for Jimmy's return.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26506

Title: John L. Smith to Lucille Ley - November 13, 1945
Description: John tells Lucille that he has received the final report and that his son is presumed dead. He provides his son's badge (?) number and asks Lucille for Jimmy's number so that he can send the information to the Quartermaster General's office. He says he intends to inquire about the deaths and burials of all the soldiers who were shot down on the 29th of February.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26524

Title: John L. Smith to Lucille Ley - June 29, 1945
Description: John expresses his condolences to Lucille and his frustrations that their sons have not been located in France--alive or dead. He says he has received his son John's belongings and has little hope left for his son's safe return. He tells Lucille a second hand account of the plane crash that killed their sons and he thanks her for reaching out to the Air Commander.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26526

Title: Los Infrahumanos, set of 12 prints, Africa (Continente Negro), Importacion, Escalvitud, Libres?, Harlem, Angustia, 78 Anos de mi Muerte, Raza Superior, Libertad, Igualdad, Justicia
Date Created: 1945
PID: faulconer-art:3768

Title: Lt. Harry Niemiec to Lucille Ley - May 1, 1945
Description: Lt. Niemiec responds to Lucille's inquiry about Jimmy's personal effects, and says a tracer has been initiated to locate them.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26520