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Brief Magazine Pressure

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.237 Author/Creator: Brief Magazine Place Written: Honolulu, Hawaii Type: Magazine Date: circa 1945 Pagination: 1 p. ; 16.5 x 14.1 cm. Order a Copy

A clipping of a plane that is flying along the coastline. The caption reads "On prowl for Jap ships, 7th AAF Liberator boldly skirts Chichi Jima's rugged coastline.

Robert "Bob" Stone was a Bombardier in World War II and served in the Pacific Front. These letters, were compiled by Bob's wife, Sheila M. Stone, and Ali Adair into a book named Letters in a Box. This book details Bob's service to his country, and his life after the war. Bob's letters were donated to the collection by his wife, Sheila M. Stone, in 2017. It contains a variety of letters, postcards, patches, pins, photographs, and scrapbooks that relate to Bob's training and combat missions.

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