Diaries, Journals, Log Books, Cyphers and Scrapbooks

1942 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II FLIGHT TRAINING DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGAGING AMERICAN SERVICEMAN WHO LONGS FOR AS MUCH AIR TIME AS POSSIBLE

1942 ORIGINAL, HISTORIC MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO ALBUM DETAILING THE BEGINNING OF PAN AMERICAN AIRLINES CRITICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT HAND WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AN ERUDITE AND KEEN EYED AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE

1942-1943 Diary of a Young New Orleans Shopgirl Focused on Her Love Life and Social Status Over the Realities of Life in War Time America

1943 & 1945 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN SERVICEMAN SERVING WITH THE DISTINGUISHED 45TH TROOP CARRIER SQUADRON LOVINGLY ADDRESSED TO HIS WIFE BUTCH

1943 + 1944 CHARMING PAIR OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG KEXBROUGH, SOUTH YORKSHIRE LAD COMING OF AGE WHILE THE WAR BRINGS DEPRIVATIONS AND SACRIFICE THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

1943 - 1944 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CAPTAIN'S LOG OF ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II, THE U.S.S CALIENTE, AS SHE PARTICIPATES IN SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS REFUELING MISSIONS OF THE PACIFIC THEATER

1943 - 1944 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [2], PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA OF A SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICER WHO SADLY OBSERVES AND DETAILS HIS OFTEN GRUESOME DUTIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC THEATRE

1943 - 1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A JEWISH VOLUNTEER FROM JERUSALEM IN BRITISH MANDATED PALESTINE WHO HELPS FIGHT GERMANY SERVING IN HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL NAVY

1943 - 1945 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A STRONG, TENACIOUS, DETERMINED BRITISH WOMAN LIVING IN AMERICA AND DOING EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TO ASSIST THE WAR EFFORT - WIDOW OF WORLD FAMOUS INVENTOR, SCIENTIST AND DENTIST

1943 - 1945 ORIGINAL EXCEPTIONAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A BRITISH AIRMAN SEEING SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM NORTH AFRICA TO ITALY

1943 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING ONE SAILOR'S SERVICE IN THE US NAVY ABOARD THE STORIED USS JACK MILLER

1943 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A TOUGH TALKING, HARD DRINKING, DICE THROWING MEMBER OF THE MILITARY POLICE WHO CAN'T KEEP TO HIS NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION WHILE DOING HIS WAR SERVICE IN ALASKA, ATTU AND THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

1943 - 1945 SUPER, ORIGINAL WWII MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A 22 YEAR OLD SOON TO BE CITED AND HONORED AERIAL GUNNER OF A B-17 SERVING OVER NORTH AFRICA AND THE EUROPEAN THEATER

1943 DIARY OF DEAN YOUNG, A YOUNG ENLISTED MORMON MAN SUFFERING DEPRESSION FROM HIS BAD MARRIAGE

1943 HANDWRITTEN PERSONAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF AN RAF TRAINEE BEGINNING IN SCOTLAND TO DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA AND ON TO EGYPT

1943 ORIGINAL FASCINATING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A MIAMI BASED WAR DEPARTMENT MILITARY SECRETARY DEALING WITH OFFICERS, ENGINEERS AND TAKING PRISONER OF WAR DEPOSITIONS

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY COVERING 52 BOMBING MISSIONS FROM HANSA BAY TO THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA HANDWRITTEN BY ONE OF THE 'JOLLY ROGERS'

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A JAPANESE SAILOR WHO FINDS LOVE IN SHANGHAI WHILE SERVING IN THE EMPEROR'S NAVY

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A PORTSMOUTH NAVAL YARD WORKER WHO DETAILS HER WORK AND DUTIES AND HOMEFRONT LIFE AND PROVIDES EPHEMERAL PROOF OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE BRITISH GUNNER'S MISERABLE 6 MONTHS IN DIEGO SUAREZ MADAGASCAR

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMEFRONT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A HARD CHARGING SIERRA MADRE CALIFORNIA WOMAN WHO DOES A SUPER JOB DETAILING HER LIFE AND TIMES WHILE THE DARK BACKDROP OF WORLD WAR II LOOMS

1943 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING THE STATE OF AMERICA'S AMMUNITIONS, ARMAMENTS AND METHODS OF BOMB MAKING: "MILITARY EXPLOSIVES REFERENCE"

1943 ORIGINAL PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY WHILE ABOARD THE USS LEOPARD

1943 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR 2 ERA TRAINING COURSE FOR A YOUNG NAVY SOLDIER LEARNING EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT PROPELLER PLANES IN A NAVAL AIRCRAFT TRAINING COURSE IN CHICAGO

1943 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II HOME FRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LONELY, WIDOWED DENTIST WHO SHARES HIS MISERY, DAILY ROUTINE AND KEEN OBSERVATIONS WITH PEN AND PAPER

1943 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SALVATION ARMY BAND MEMBER SERVING IN HOBART TASMANIA

1943 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN OBSERVANT MEDICAL OFFICER STATIONED IN ORAN WITHIN WEEKS OF THE CITY'S FALL TO THE ALLIES AND AMID THE EXCITEMENT OF THE BUILD UP TO THE INVASION OF ITALY

1943 PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BATTLE DIARY OF AN AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN

1943-48 Archive of Six Diaries from a Rural Farmer's Wife from Walton, New York Who Was Active in 4-H, the Home Bureau, and Walton Grange, During and after World War Two

1944 + 1945 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A SERGEANT OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE DESCRIBING HIS TRAINING AND THEN POSTING TO BRITISH COLUMBIA

1944 - 1945 HANDWRITTEN HALIFAX HOMEFRONT ORIGINAL DIARY

1944 - 1945 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING THE LAST HORRIBLE MONTHS OF NAZI OCCUPATION IN THE HEART OF HOLLAND AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF THEIR NEW FREEDOM WHEN THE OCCUPATION FINALLY ENDS

1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL DIARY AND PHOTO ALBUM OF A 19 YEAR OLD BRITISH MAN TRAINING TO BE A RADIO OPERATOR IN CANADA

1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS DETAILING THE ARDUOUS, CRITICAL WORK OF A REPLENISHMENT SHIP IN THE DEADLY PACIFIC THEATER THAT WOULD GO ON TO WIN 3 BATTLE STARS

1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND TESTAMENT TO HUMAN SURVIVAL AND ENDURANCE HANDWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN AIRMAN SHOT OUT OF THE AIR, IMPRISONED IN GERMANY'S HARSHEST POW CAMP AND THEN NEARLY MARCHED AND STARVED TO DEATH

1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WARTIME DIARY OF JEWISH COAST GUARD CADET ABOARD THE USCGC SASSAFRAS ON ‘AID TO NAVIGATION’ AND U-BOAT DETECTION DUTY IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC

1944 - 1945 RIVETING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF GERMAN ARMY AND THEIR SERBIAN MINION'S BRUTALITY, MURDER AND THE HORRIBLE DEPRIVATIONS METED OUT TO THEIR AMERICAN PRISONERS

1944 - 1946 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN INTRICATELY DETAILED AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN WW2 LOGBOOK OF THE HEAD ENGINEER OF THE DECORATED LCI(L) 322, ON DUTY IN THE PACIFIC THEATER DURING AND AFTER THE LAST YEARS OF WORLD WAR 2

1944 - 1948 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG CANADIAN SERVICEMAN IN IRELAND, ENGLAND AND BACK TO TORONTO CANADA AND THE HAGERSVILLE SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL WITH HIS ENGLISH WAR BRIDE

1944 ARCHIVE OF TWO [2] HANDWRITTEN SHIP'S LOG OF THE USS WORTHINGTON IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC BATTLING JAPAN