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Summers, Harold E. (Second World War correspondence, clippings, and other materials)
2018.164.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Harold E. Summers Second World War correspondence, clippings, and other materials
source:
Galbreath, Joyce
Creator:
Mumaugh, Robert Darst, Staff Sergeant, 1913-1974
Creator:
Summers, Harold Edgar, Signalman Second Class, 1919-1941
Creator:
Mumaugh née Summers, Nina Lucile , 1916-
Identifier/Call Number: 2018.164.w.r
Physical Description:
0.3 Linear feet
(5 folders)
Date (inclusive): 1938 January 7 - 1966
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs and other materials relating to the death of SM2/c Harold
E. Summers, USN on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: WWII 24
Container: 1-5
Container: 1-5
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection is a gift of Joyce Galbreath.
This collection is arranged by material type, author and chronology:
- Series 1, Correspondence from Harold
- Series 2, Correspondence from Lucile
- Series 3, Other correspondence
- Series 4, Clippings and other materials
- Series 5, Photograph of Harold
- Series 6, Sheet music
Signalman Second Class Harold Edgar Summers, United States Navy (1919 - 12/7/1941) was born in Akron, Ohio to Orlie Edgar
Smmers and Nellie May (Malin) Summers. He enlisted in the Navy on February 2, 1938. He served aboard the USS Arizona and was
three months shy of completing his service in the Navy when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His body was never recovered
among the wreckage of the USS Arizona and in February 1942 the family received a notice stating that it would be impossible
to find him and that the Navy was declaring him killed in action on December 7, 1941. After pronounced dead, his brother Sergeant
Robert M. Summers, United States Marine Corpse joined the Marines rather than wait to be drafted and fought in the Pacific;
including Saipan where he was injured and Iwo Jima where he earned the Bronze Star Medal. Aunt Carrie expresses in one of
her letters to Lucile that she thinks his enlistment would be better than waiting to be drafted.
SM2/c Summers' correspondence between he and his sister, Nina Lucile Mumaugh, who went by Lucile, were also directed toward
her husband, Staff Sergeant Robert Darst Mumaugh, United States Army who was drafted in 1943 and served in the European Theater.
A collection of his memorabilia is housed in the archives (2018-165-w-r).
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Harold E. Summers Second World War correspondence, clippings, and other
materials (2018.164.w.r), Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains correspondence to, from, and about SM 2/c Harold E. Summers, USN at the beginning of the Second World
War, before and after he was killed aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Also included is a scrapbook
of clippings pertaining to Pearl Harbor, one framed picture of SM 2/c Summers, and other materials contained within the scrapbook.
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945)
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
Photographs
Galbreath, Joyce