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Craig M. Pearson Collection

出版	1943
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XUrSXwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Chiefly letters from Pearson, reflecting daily life during training, becoming less newsy during combat in Europe, largely due to the strict censorship enforced (a few letters reflecting this with holes cut out by army censors). Pearson requests news from home and asks for stationery, stamps, etc., and information on high school sports teams, also making cultural observations about the countries he is in (England, France (Alsace), Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany), the local scenery, and providing information that he is well, including an excited letter (1945 Feb. 24) expressing his pleasure on eating Belgian ice cream. In later letters, written after the censorship lifted, he details some close calls and tough experiences as well as descriptions of some of the souvenirs he collected. Collection also includes photographs of Pearson, his buddies, and others; postcards; materials collected after his Army service such as pamphlets and yearbooks about the 95th Division and the 377th Infantry; newspaper clippings; wartime cartoons; front page headlines such as "War Declared" and "War is Over"; a short interview conducted by Pearson's son, Jonathon Pearson for a high school project conducted three decades after his father's Army service shedding a different light on the experiences not written about at the time, as well as providing opinions of the army, Nazi propaganda, General Patton, and medals; and an early sound recording from 1943 made by Pearson at Fort Benning, Ga.