Box OS0036

Scope and Contents

This folder contains materials related to the education, military service, and posthumous recognition of Ensign Thomas Raymond Jones. Materials include Jones’s 1936 diploma from Tallulah High School in Tallulah, Louisiana, a 1942 issue of The Trojan featuring a memorial to Jones and information about local alumni serving in the military during World War II, and Jones’s Purple Heart Certificate, awarded posthumously for his death during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Ormond Bobo Collection contains various materials related to Bobo’s service as a mess sergeant in the Pacific and at army bases in the United States during World War II, including documents, photographs, guidebooks, and manuals. The collection also contains photographs of Haggar Clothing Company factory workers, including Ormond Bobo’s wife, Mary Doyle Bobo, as well as personal letters, wedding photographs, and greeting cards belonging to the Bobo family. Instructional...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Ormond Bobo Collection contains various materials related to Bobo’s service as a mess sergeant in the Pacific and at army bases in the United States during World War II, including documents, photographs, guidebooks, and manuals. The collection also contains photographs of Haggar Clothing Company factory workers, including Ormond Bobo’s wife, Mary Doyle Bobo, as well as personal letters, wedding photographs, and greeting cards belonging to the Bobo family. Instructional...

Abstract

The Ormond Bobo Collection contains various materials related to Bobo’s service as a mess sergeant in the Pacific and at army bases in the United States during World War II, including documents, photographs, guidebooks, and manuals. The collection also contains photographs of Haggar Clothing Company factory workers, including Ormond Bobo’s wife, Mary Doyle Bobo, as well as personal letters, wedding photographs, and greeting cards belonging to the Bobo family.

Scope and Contents This folder contains two issues of The Polar Tech, the newspaper of the Sioux Falls Army Airfield. The issues cover military and war news, reports on airfield activities, local news, sports, entertainment, schedules of religious services and community events, information on clubs and recreational activities, and contributions from servicemembers in the "Section Squibs" column. Together, the issues offer insight into daily life, morale, and the social environment of personnel stationed at the...