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Box 0395.01

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Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder

 Series — Box: 0395.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of 59 letters written to his parents and sister, also includes 7 picture postcards, a Maxwell Field Christmas card, 14 sketches (some quite humorous), 11 photos, a flow chart describing the Army’s classification process, a map of his section of Maxwell Field, a page from “Yank” with letters pertaining to the voting rights of servicemen in the absence of a federal voting law, and 4 other clippings. Some of the letters are handwritten and some are typed. There are...
Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters

Page 1: 1943 February 18 Postcard

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 01
Scope and Contents Page 1: 1943 February 18 Postcard mailed from Miami, Fla. to Mrs. F. R. Kemmer, 93 Echo Lane, Larchmont, N.Y. “Hello - Arrived in the fabulous city this morning after 2 days and nights in a Pullman. Quite a group from Upton. Don’t know how I landed in the Air Corps; the Army moves in mysterious ways. I didn’t get what mail you might have sent to Upton. I imagine I’ll be here for some time for basic training, although I don’t know. Evidently this is preparation for ground war. Now we...
Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

Page 76: [unidentified] Newspaper advertisement

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 76
Scope and Contents

Page 76: [unidentified] newspaper advertisement to Buy United States War Bonds (standing Uncle Sam as a mason putting mortar on an arch - Individual Initiative Freedom of Speech Freedom of Religion)

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / Clippings Page 76 to 78

Page 77: [Unidentified] Clipping from (possibly the New Yorker)

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 77
Scope and Contents

Page 77: [Unidentified] Clipping from (possibly the New Yorker) elates impressions about war from Captain Ralph Ingersoll of the Engineers at the battle of El Guettar in Tunisia, last paragraph is underlined says “our soldiers are fighting mainly in order to get home again…”]

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / Clippings Page 76 to 78

Page 78: 194? October 23 clipping

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 78
Scope and Contents

Page 78: 194? October 23 clipping of a Robt Day cartoon from the New Yorker group of soldiers doing calisthenics - caption reads “It was these damn-fool calisthenics in Germany that brought on the war.” (in handwriting) “Mother & Gretchen will enjoy this.”

Dates: 1943-1944
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / Clippings Page 76 to 78

Page 2: 1943 February 21 (Chromolithe) postcard , 1943

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 02
Scope and Contents

Page 2: 1943 February 21 (Chromolithe) postcard mailed from Miami, Fla. (Bayfront Park) to Miss Gretchen Kemmer, 93 Echo Lane, Larchmont, N.Y. “Hello Gretchen You would love Miami Beach. Rather expensive however. I’m afraid my pay won’t allow me to offer you a vacation here. The Atlantic is pure emerald. Love, Joe”

Dates: 1943
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

Page 3: (Envelope), 1943

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 03
Scope and Contents Page 3: ???? (scrap piece of envelope) “M. I will love to get over the idea of incomplete writing. I do not yet realize that I cannot explain things in person as I was accustomed when at Lehigh. There will be no vacations to allow more complete discussions of things I have written. It doesn’t seem that I am 1500 miles from home. I still think I can catch a train from Bethlehem to N.Y. on a weekend. I will love to get out a map and study it for an hour to get used to distance. Maybe I...
Dates: 1943
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

Page 4: 1943 February 21 (United States Army letterhead 2 sheets) , 1943

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 04
Scope and Contents Page 4: 1943 February 21 (United States Army letterhead 2 sheets) “Sunday. Dear Mother, As I wrote you I am stationed in the “Sea Isle” hotel which faces the ocean on Miami Beach This is the largest Air Force command in the country; a soldier told me last night that 80,000 men are stationed here now. This is probably right, however I am in Flight 526 and there are 125 men in a flight. I am probably placed in the Air Corps (now called the Air Forces, I believe, a separate unit from...
Dates: 1943
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

Page 5: 1943 February 24 , 1943

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 05
Scope and Contents Page 5: 1943 February 24 (U.S. Army letterhead) “Wednesday. Dear Mother. Just received the card and letter which were from the boys out at Larchmont and also your first letter. Got your second letter to Camp Upton yesterday…. [letter continues with relating some of the physical disabilities of the men assigned to the Army: extreme high blood pressure, glass eye, just under the age limit, exhausting drilling, explains that he is a private not a P.F.C. urges her to take up the issue of...
Dates: 1943
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

Page 6: [no date] (Army letterhead) “Thursday , 1943

 File — Box: 0395.01, Item: 06
Scope and Contents

Page 6: ???? (Army letterhead) “Thursday Dear Dad. [explains about his classification tests in mathematics, mechanical ability, requests during the interview that he will choose intelligence first and photography second, goes on with observations about the men in his flight, says just received a letter from Mother with enclosed card from Lynn Bartlett from Bethlehem, prices are high…]

Dates: 1943
Found in: Lehigh University Special Collections / Joseph F. Kemmer World War II Letters / Description and Inventory of the Kemmer Letters Binder / 1943 Part 1 - Page 1 to Page 19

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