Scope and Contents

Contains military and flight records documenting Richard Marsh Butler's post-WWII military career in the Air Reserves, as well as correspondence with fellow prisoners of war, publications regarding Stalag Luft III, airplanes, and other military ephemera. Materials dated 1945 to 2005.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of Richard Marsh Butler's personal scrapbook (including military papers, foreign cartoons and maps, photographs, letters, notes and other small personal memorabilia, a patriarchal blessing, a lock of hair, cloth swatches, pieces of Nazi stationary, postcards, foreign currency, etc.); POW items (clippings, letters, ID cards, etc.); family history papers (a historical guardianship transfer document, Butler's flight log and war diary; assorted ephemera, including U.S. and foreign...