James W. Butzow Papers

Résumé du livre

Correspondence written by Butzow during his military career to his parents and younger sister Gladys in Aberdeen, S.D.; three drafts of his unpublished memoir, I'm 1-A in the Army, one version of which he illustrated; a Feb. 10, 1946 edition of Thunderbolt, the 83rd Division newspaper ; miscellaneous photographs and newspaper clippings of Butzow and photographs taken by him of the 1959 hop harvest in Yakima; and the diary of Lance Keiji Miyao, the former boyfriend of Sandra Rabang, whom Butzow married in 1986. The detailed letters provide insight into the daily life of a serviceman at the end of World War II. Boredom and recreation figure prominently in Butzow's communications. He served as a guard at a prison camp in Germany and there is also some discussion of this.