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Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry, 1942 Digital

Item — Box 41: Series ; Series ; Series ; Series ; Series , Folder: 2Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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Notice posted by the US Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, Wartime Civil Control Administration instructing residents of Japanese descent to report for internment; dated 24 April 1942, San Francisco.

Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964. Letters to Leon Henderson, 1942-1945 Digital

Item — Box 40: Series ; Series ; Series ; Series , Folder: 19Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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2 signed letters from Lord Beaverbrook to American civil servant Leon Henderson: 1st dated 13 January 1942; 2nd dated 11 July 1945.

Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968. Strassmann, Friedrich, 1902-1980. Signatures, 1963 Digital

Item — Box 21: Series , Folder: 20Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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Signatures of chemists Otto Hahn and Friedrich "Fritz" Strassmann verso on a card commemorating their discovery of nuclear fission; recto bears photograph of Hahn and Strassmann with physicist Heinz Haber.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. Radio talk by President Harry S. Truman to Congress, 1945 Digital

Item — Box 24: Series , Folder: 3Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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Typescript copy of radio broadcast with manuscript cover page, presumably autograph; dated 16 April 1945.

Instrument of surrender of all German forces in Holland, in northwest Germany, including all islands, and in Denmark, 1945 Digital

Item — Box 16: Series , Folder: 5Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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Signed by Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, General Eberhard Kinzel, Admiral Gerhard Wagner, Oberst Fritz Poleck, and Major Hans Jochen Freidel. 2 copies, with minor variations.

Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976. Draft of telegram to British Chief of the General Staff (CGS), circa 1942-1943 Digital

Item — Box 16: Series , Folder: 8Identifier: MS Span 185, ,
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Re gasoline needs of the British Army in northern Africa.

Grineau, Bryan de, 1882-1957. Foreigners in a Foreign Land : pencil drawing, 1940

Item — Box 40: Series ; Series ; Series ; Series , Folder: 8Identifier: MS Span 185,
Scope and Contents: Original work by British artist Bryan de Grineau depicting a Cypriot mule company watering their animals; dated 1940, France.Note verso in de Grineau's hand:"Several hundred Cypriots picked from the thousands who volunteered their services to Britain on the outbreak of war have been formed into a mule transport corps of the R.A.S.C. The mules are pack animals & are invaluable for taking heavy loads across country under bad conditions. The men speak a mixture of...