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box 1, folder 1

Clippings on service club speeches on China 1946

box 1, folder 2

Chinese language newspaper clippings 1945

box 1, folder 3

Invitations to dinner 1943-1945

box 1, folder 4

Miscellaneous 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

includes two Chinese plays, radio interview, Chinese passport, War Transportation board (Chinese) letter, Christmas letter from Yenan Liaison Bureau, two radios re: 63 AACS, and five official orders.
box 1, folder 5

English language newspapers from China 1943-1945

box 1, folder 6

YENINF reports undated

box 1, folder 7

Chinese Tunnel Stories 1946

box 1, folder 8

Notebooks 1944

Scope and Contents note

Notebooks contain diary entries and interrogations of prisoners.
box 1, folder 9

Notes on Infantry Training, The Infantry Training Center 1944

box 1, folder 10

"Dixie Mission Memoirs," Wilbur J. Peterkin undated

box 1, folder 11

"The Story Behind the Peace Rose: The Flower of Friendship Between the People of the United States and China," Chang Hsüeh-ling undated

box 1, folder 12

Correspondence, diary entires, and newspaper clippings 1943-1946, 1976

box 1, folder 13

Raymond Paul Ludden correspondence 1945-1978

box 2, folder 1

General correspondence 1945 February-July

box 2, folder 2

Yenan! Colonel Wilbur Peterkin and the American Military Mission to the Chinese Communists, 1944-1945 1987

box 2, folder 3

Writings 1977-1979

Scope and Contents note

Includes writings by Wilbur J. Peterkin and "Let the Flower of Friendship Blossom Even More Vibrantly" by Lin T'ang and Yi Hua.
box 2, folder 4

1978 Trip to China

box OCM4

Chinese currency undated

Access

Box OCM4 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 2, folder 5

"Notes for a talk to the Burien Kwanis Club" 1988 January 21

box 2, folder 6

Carolle Carter 1976-1985

box 2, folder 7

"Log of Two Years in China, 1943-1945," draft 1978

box 2, folder 8

"Impending Dangers for US China Policy," Michael Lindsay 1977

Scope and Contents note

Increment, October 1987
box 2, folder 9

Convoy Chungking 1945

box 2, folder 10

Jack Klein correspondence 1976-1981

box 2, folder 11

Neal Ulivich correspondence 1972

box 2, folder 12

Maps and outline of voyage circa 1945

box 2, folder 13

Time: Pony Edition 1945 December 10

box 2, folder 14

"Inside China: An Eyewitness Account of America's Mission in Yenan," draft 1992

 

Correspondence 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Contains mainly letters from Peterkin to his wife, Dorothy Peterkin. Some correspondence to Anne Peterkin also included.
box 6, folder 1-6

1943 September-December

box 6, folder 7

1944 January

box 7, folder 1-8

1944 January-July

box 8, folder 1-5

1944 July-December

box 8, folder 6-8

1945 January-March

box 9, folder 1-6

1945 April-September

box 9, folder 7

Letters sent to Dorothy Peterkin from others 1945

box 9, folder 8

Postcard from Francis Schick to Anne Peterkin undated

box 9, folder 8

Miscellaneous

 

Photographs 1943-1945

box 5, folder 1

1943 September-December

box 5, folder 2

1944 January-February

box 5, folder 3

1944 March-May

box 5, folder 4

1944 June-July

box 5, folder 5

1944 August

box 5, folder 6

1944 September

box 5, folder 7

1944 October

box 5, folder 8

1944 November

box 5, folder 9

1944 December

box 5, folder 10

1945 January-February

box 5, folder 11

1945 March-June

box 5, folder 12

1945 July-September

box 5, folder 13

1953-1978

box 5, folder 14-16

Undated (likely 1943-1945)

box 10

China, Yenan, and Kweilin 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Includes photographic images of maps.
box 10

Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents note

Contains various 1" x 1.5" prints, prints cut from contact sheets, images of the 415th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army circa 1953, and other undescribed photographs.
box 11

Photographs depicting W. J. Peterkin's activities as executive and commanding officer of the U.S. Observer Mission to the Chinese Communists 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Formerly Envelope A. Includes photographs of Zhu De (Chu Teh), Zhou En-lai (Chou En-lai), Mao Zedong, Ye Jianying (Yeh Chien-ying) and views of Yenan.
box 11

Photographs depicting the International Peace Hospital and Chinese communist forces 1937-1944

Scope and Contents note

Formerly Envelope C. Most photographs contain handwritten captions in Chinese on the back.
box 11

Miscellaneous

box 11

Color slides undated

album fB

Album containing 245 prints of China, Nigeria, and India at the time of World War II undated

box 11

Small photo album 1943-1945

box 11

China album 1944-1945, 1978

Scope and Contents note

Includes images of Mao Tse-tung, Teng Ying-chou, and of crossing the Yellow River in January 1945.
 

Negatives

box 3

Miscellaneous

Access

Originals located in Boxes 3-4 restricted.
box 4

Miscellaneous

box StillNegPos Box 1

Miscellaneous (continued)

Access

Originals restricted.
box StillNegPos Box 3

13 rolled negatives

Access

Originals restricted.
 

Motion Picture Film 1944

 

China U.S.A.O.S. 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Film shot by Wilbur J. Peterkin while stationed in China during World War II. 16mm, color and black and white, silent. Roll 2. Detailed contents list below.

Access

Use copy reference number: 76018_f_0008113
 

October 5, 1944

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Occasion of Legion Merit for Colonel Barrett

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Chu Teh, Mao Tse Tung, Ludden, Barrett, and members of Mission

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General Bergin- who presented Legion of Merit

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Gunther Stein - Brooks Atkinson in door of plane

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Yeh Chien Ying, Madam Chu Teh

 

February 5, 1945

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Colonel Morris DePass

 

February 11, 1945

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Chinese New Year and band with gifts for mission

 

April 18-20, 1945

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Trip to Yenchang oil fields; Peterkin, Lt. Col Dexheimer and Colonel Andrus and Mr. Yellachich

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Oil wells pumped by man-power

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Road cave in. 25 fords in about 69 miles.

 

May 1945

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Lt. Happe (knit cap) and Sgt. White going to Varoff Field

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Chinese weather observers and radio operators to be flown behind Japanese lines. Tai Hang.

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Yenan Water system

 

June 1945

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Orderlies planting vegetables after drough

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Hsiao Ping photographer

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Mr. Wu head of photography

 

March 23, 1945

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Chungking

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Threshing rice

 

March 25, 1945

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Convoy Chunking-Yenan, 4 3/4 tons with 1 ton trailers and one jeep with trailer. Personnel Peterkin, Captain Pomeranze, MC, Catain William Glei, Captain Eaton, Lt. Proccino, Lt. Hauck, Sergeant Sevia Thorne OSS, Sgt. Richards, Corporal Peel, Lt. Happe

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Lt. Hauck and Lt. Proccanino

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Captain Pomeranze with dark glasses

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Sgt. Thorne with dark glasses

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Lt. Happe eating apple

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Captain Glei no shirt eating apple

 

April 2, 1945

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City of Paochi - camped on airfield

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Kuo Min Tang soldier

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Peterkin and camel - Yenan

 

June 27, 1945

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B25 Lt. Happe and Sgt. White return from Varoff Field

 

July 4, 1945

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Signal flare caught on telephone wire across river

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Civilian William Taylor captured on Wake Island escaped from Japanese in North China and rescued by guerrillas

 

July 5, 1945

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Political meeting with KMT, KCT, and other political parties

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Yeh Chien Ying, Chun Yi, Mao Tse Tung, Madam Chou En Lai, etc.

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Peterkin and laborers at Yenan airfield

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Lt. Klein with young art student from Yu Lin Art Academy

 

September 3, 1945

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Victory parade in Chungking

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Victory Arch Chungking

 

September 13, 1945

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Approach to Hause # 15, Peterkin's billet.

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View from window of House #15

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Dixie Compound, Roll 4 circa 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Film shot by Wilbur J. Peterkin while stationed in China during World War II. 16mm, color, silent. Roll 4.

Access

Use copy reference number: 76018_f_0008799.
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Mission to Yenan, Roll 5 circa 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Film shot by Wilbur J. Peterkin while stationed in China during World War II. 16 mm, black and white, silent. Roll 5.

Access

Use copy reference number: 76018_f_0008114
tape cabinet

Videocassettes

Scope and Contents note

Two videocassettes. Material not yet described.
 

Microfilm Reel

microfilm cabinet

U.S. Military Observers in Yenan, China collected reports microfilm reel 1944-1971 (bulk 1944-1946)

Scope and Contents

Includes four volumes of collected administrative and other reports concerning the Yenan Observer Group (Code Name: Dixie Mission; File No. Geog V China 334--Dixie Mission). The Yenan Observer Group arrived in Yenan, China, on July 22, 1944. The volumes were regraded unclassified by the Secretary of the Army in 1971.
Volume 1 index: Army Ground Forces Resources Technical Staff; Air Ground Aid Service Section, American--Communist Relations, Colonel Dave Barrett's Reports, Miscellaneous Correspondence, Maps, Charts, Foreign Economics Administration, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley
Volume 2 index: Illustrations, Maps of areas, Interviews with Lt. George I. Nakamura, Nationalist--Communist Relations, Naval Intelligence, Operations Conditions, Order of Battle Section, Office of Strategic Services (OSS), Office of War Information (OWI), Personalities Involved, Propaganda
Volume 3 index: Preliminary Story, Tenth Weather Squadron Detachment, Twentieth Bomber Command, Wind-Up Of Mission, Colonel Yeaton, Yensig Section (Proposed), china Theater Political History (by Fenton Keyes), G-5 Clandestine Branch History Excerpts
Volume 4 is not indexed.
 

Oversize Material

drawer H20

Blueprint

drawer G09

Posters undated

Scope and Contents note

Folder contains 3 posters. Posters originally located in box 1 moved to OS map folders.
drawer G09

Cloth maps

drawer G09

Paper maps

memorabilia_cabinet 

Memorabilia