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Charles Latham
27 October 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATES: 1941-1946
PROVENANCE: Mary A. Zint, Evansville, IN, 25 August 1995
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
ALTERNATE FORMATS: None
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: See card catalog under World War, 1939-1945
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0616
At the beginning of World War II, between the outbreak of war in 1939 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, many young men from the United States who wanted to get involved joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. Some of these came from Evansville.
This collection, filling one folder, contains pages of a scrapbook of clippings and other material about men from Evansville, Indiana, who served in World War II, mainly in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Most of the pages are about individual Evansville men.
The scrapbook also has other material tipped in. This includes a 1942 holiday greeting from the Earl of Athlone and the Princess Royal, three photographs of depth charges being dropped on a Nazi submarine off the Canadian coast, and a photograph of an unidentified bomber.
MAIN ENTRY: Evansville (Ind.) World War II scrapbook, 1941-1946
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force
Soldiers--Indiana--Evansville
World War, 1939-1945--Indiana--Evansville--Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945--Canada
Anti-submarine warfare--Photographs
Evansville (Ind.)
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