Typescript notecard signed Charles A. Stewart, Jr., Shanghai War-prisoner’s Camp, Foreign Section, Shanghai Gaol, 147 Chang Yang Road, Shanghai, China, to Mrs. Charles A. Stewart, Sr., 3501 Itaska St., St. Louis, Missouri. Inquires about the fourth of July and mentions his desire to fish at the “Bagnol Dam” [Bagnell Dam, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri] when he returns home., 1944 July 1

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of correspondence from Charles A. Stewart, Jr., to his family, various newspaper articles and clippings, and a scrapbook, that document his military service during World War II and his time as a prisoner of war. The correspondence includes letters from Charles A. Stewart Jr. to his family in which he discusses general conditions as a prisoner of war, but without detail presumably due to censorship. The correspondence also includes a letter from Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, with whom Charles A. Stewart, Jr., was briefly imprisoned. The scrapbook, presumably put together by Mrs. Grace Stewart, was donated unbound and the original order has been lost. It includes photographs of Charles A. Stewart, Jr., during his service and World War II ephemera. The scrapbook also includes a signed letter from President Harry S. Truman to Charles A. Stewart, Jr., November 29, 1945, expressing gratitude for Stewart’s military service. The newspaper articles headline pivotal moments of World War II before and after the United States’ declaration of war.