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Howard, Edgar R. and Virginia Phillips (Second World War correspondence)
2022.148.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Edgar R. Howard and Virginia Phillips Second World War correspondence
source:
Colvin, Carolyn H.
Creator:
Hooper, Harry Ralston, Corporal, 1917-2003
Creator:
Bascom, Raymond J., Seaman Second Class, 1924-1995
Identifier/Call Number: 2022.148.w.r
Physical Description:
0.01 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1943 September 20 - 1944 December 20
Abstract: This collection contains two V-mail correspondence from two service members writing to Edgar R. Howard and Virginia Phillips.
Virginia Phillips' cousin, S 2/c Raymond Bascom, USNR wrote a V-mail to her dated September 20, 1943. Edgar R. Howard's college
friend, Cpl. Harry R. Hooper, USAAF wrote a V-mail to him dated December 20, 1944.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: WWII 160
Container: 21
Container: 1
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carolyn H. Colvin
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
Edgar Randall Howard and Virginia Joy Phillips were married during the war on June 11, 1944. Edgar was attending Washington
Missionary College in Takoma Park, Maryland in December when he received this letter from his college friend, Corporal Harry
Ralston Hooper, United States Army Air Force (6/13/1917 - 2/26/2003).
Cpl. Hooper was born in Davidson, Tennessee and served with 1347 Army Air Forces Base Unit (India-China Division)(Air Transport
Command) in several locations including Shamshernagar, India in the China-India-Burma Theater. He deployed in October 1944
and served with the "medical department" according to his letter. He married in 1946 and passed away in Collegedale, TN in
2003.
Seaman Second Class Raymond J. Bascom, United States Navy Reserve (11/23/1924 - 1/11/1995) was born in Guthrie, Iowa and was
a cousin of Virginia. He enlisted in the US Navy on April 24, 1943 and served aboard the escort carrier USS Breton (CVE-23),
two months at sea when he wrote his letter to Virginia. He married Alice Lynn Goad in 1951 and passed away in Fort Worth,
Texas in 1995.
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Edgar R. Howard and Virginia Phillips Second World War correspondence (2022.148.w.r),
Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
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This collection contains two V-mail correspondence from two service members writing to Edgar R. Howard and Virginia Phillips.
Virginia Phillips' cousin, S 2/c Raymond Bascom, USNR wrote a V-mail to her dated September 20, 1943. Edgar R. Howard's college
friend, Cpl. Harry R. Hooper, USAAF wrote a V-mail to him dated December 20, 1944.
In Hooper's V-mail, signed "Ralston," he asks Howard how he's liking married life.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
World War (1939-1945)
Colvin, Carolyn H.