Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of correspondence from two generations of the Day and McCarthy families dating from 1837 to 1846, 1943 and 1945. The 19th-century documents are written mostly in German but also in French and English. There is a large date gap between 1847 and 1942 and there are also small gaps in 1841, 1843, and 1845. The correspondence is mostly written in old German script (Kurrent) to John Day dating from 1837 to 1846. The notes are small pieces of paper,...

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of letters, military records, and research related to Peter T. Oleski and to the 549th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (AAA AW) Battalion. The collection is arranged alphabetically by topic and ranges in date from 1944 to 2011. There is a large date gap from 1953 to 1988. Peter Oleski saved a few items from his military service. There are five 1945 issues of a one-page “Missouri Mule: Somewhere East of St....