Letter from John G. Decker to his brother Fred regarding camp life during the war and various family matters. The stationery features elaborate patriotic Union symbols and a poem. See also the John G. Decker Papers, Mf. 1964.
Mitchener wrote this poem in his diary during his stay at a German POW camp. The poem,"Our Creed," explores his ideas and feelings about being a prisoner of war.
Memorial for Corporal Roby Hendrix who was killed in World War I. The image features a painting of advancing troops, light and heavy artillery, tanks, naval personnel, ships, and airplanes around a central image of a battered pillar and a poem. It...
Calendar from 1919 featuring a painting of World War I soldiers, a battlefield cemetery, and the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. It also features a brief commentary on the author of the poem and the war by "Black & Black, Makers of...
Views of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and the Ocean S.S. Co. of Savannah's S.S. City of Chattanooga. Poem by Lon A. Warner entitled "Lookout Mountain" included.
Black and white two-sided propaganda leaflet conveys the anguish of a mother as she cries over the image she envisions of her son, killed in fighting. The leaflet number is on the front (SP.2141). The reverse contains a list of eleven...
This page (and the following three pages) features a poem or song called "Kriege's Lament," written by Willie Munger. The poem has an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme and is seventeen stanzas long. The subject is the return home of the American POWs to their...
This page is the continuation of a poem or song called "Kriege's Lament" written by Willie Munger. The poem has an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme and is seventeen stanzas long. The subject is the return of the American POWs to their mothers and families....
This page is the continuation of a poem or song called "Kriege's Lament," written by Willie Munger. The poem has an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme and is seventeen stanzas long. The subject is the return of the American POWs to their mothers and families....
This page is a poem, "Mothers' Sons," about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who never see their sons again....
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows a poem called, "The Last of the Bombardiers." The poem is about an old man who once was a bombardier.
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows a poem written by an African American POW, Hitchcock. Mitchener uses the word "colored" to describe him. The poem is called "Fighter Pilot" and is about the role and importance of fighter...
This is the last page of "Mothers' Sons," a poem about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who will never see...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows the remainder of a poem called "The Last of the Bombardiers," which begins on the previous page. The poem is about an old man who once was a bombardier.
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows a poem called "The B-17," by POW D. Hughes. The poem is about the greatness of the B-17 bomber.
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows the continuation from the previous page of a poem written by an African American POW, Hitchcock. Mitchener uses the word "colored" to describe him. The poem is called "Fighter Pilot" and is...
