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Title: Edward Nelson Bewley letters
Dates: 1940-1942
Collection Number: 90016
Creator: Bewley, Edward Nelson, 1914-1944
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box
(00.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Relates to military life on air bases in the United States and the Philippine Islands during World War II. Includes later
letters to his mother from fellow officers, relating to their memories of E. N. Bewley as a prisoner in a Japanese prison
camp and to his death as a result of the torpedoing of a prison ship.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
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[Identification of item], Edward Nelson Bewley letters, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1990.
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Captain, United States Army; member, 701st Ordnance Company (Aviation).
Scope and Content of Collection
Relates to military life on air bases in the United States and the Philippine Islands during World War II. Includes later
letters to his mother from fellow officers, relating to their memories of E. N. Bewley as a prisoner in a Japanese prison
camp and to his death as a result of the torpedoing of a prison ship.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Army. Ordnance Company, 701st.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Philippines.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
Prisoners of war.