Browse Items (15 total)

  • Subject starts with "World War, 1939-1945"

COLL 183: Bethel Veterans' Monument Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Correspondence, catalogs, and other items related to the purchase of a bronze plaque to honor Bethel's World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans in 1957-8.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 140: Daisy LeClair WWII Poster Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Nine posters promoting the purchase of United States Treasury Department War Bonds.

Collection: Finding Aids

Dix francs [Allied Military Currency]

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Ten franc Allied Military Currency banknote sent by Earl T. Littlefield to pay his Gould Academy Alumni Association dues.

Cinq francs [Allied Military Currency]

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Five franc Allied Military Currency banknote sent by Earl T. Littlefield to pay his Gould Academy Alumni Association dues.

William Bingham, 2nd to the senior class of Gould Academy, June 10, 1944

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Telegram sent by William Bingham, 2nd to the graduating class at Gould Academy shortly after the allies turned the tide in World War II.

Robert B. Swain, November 2008, WWII recollections

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Oral History / In-house Use Only

Robert B. Swain is interviewed by his son, Ross Swain, about his experiences during World War II.

Reminiscences : war in the South Pacific and duty in Japan / Ernest Harmon Knight

Book / In-house Use Only

Contents: Chapter 1. Earliest recollections -- Chapter 2. Duty at historic Jefferson barracks -- Chapter 3. New Guinea; vine bridges and paw-paw -- Chapter 4. Other worlds, Biak and Hollandia -- Chapter 5. Kamikaze attacks at Leyte -- Chapter 6. On…

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

BHS Program: "Oral History Night: World War II Veterans of Bethel"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Oral History Night: World War II Veterans of Bethel," featuring a panel discussion on May 2, 1996.

Reader's Digest World [videorecording] : America in the '40's

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

It was the most momentous decade of the century: ten years of triumphs and tragedies, heartaches and heroics, hopes and humor. This series looks at the fads, the fun, the hits, the headlines, the hometown life ... and the decades' best-loved stars…

Collection: Video Library

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 1

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Features: Bethel During the Second World War: Part II by Stanley Russell Howe -- 2 Bethel, Maine Roll of Honor, World War II -- 5 A review of The Life and Work of Ernest M. Skinner by Dorothy J. Holden [reviewed by Edward H. Hastings] --…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 9, No. 4

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Features: Bethel During the Second World War by Stanley Russell Howe [Part 1] -- 1 A review of The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Aliance in Abenaki-Euroamerican Relations by Kenneth M. Morrison [reviewed by Margaret Joy Tibbetts] --…