Box 16
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Thomas Wayne Sunderland papers, 1941-1945, approximately 2000
File — Box: 16, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 6 File 418
Scope and Contents
Materials include photocopied photographs, photocopied newspaper clippings and memoir of Thomas Wayne Sunderland. Recounts his experiences from his being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941 to his medical release in 1945 due to contracting malaria and hepatitis. He speaks of his training in Fort Lewis, Washington, and of being on a ship bound for Pearl Harbor the day it was bombed in December of 1941. Describes later learning that Japanese submarines were searching for them, and had sunk a...
Dates:
1941-1945; approximately 2000