Humphries family

Scope and Contents Wartime diary and memoir kept by Pfc. Elbert D. Humphries of a field artillery survey section, titled by him "Life Overseas." Entries run from his embarkation at Boston on November 10, 1944, through the Atlantic crossing, staging in England, and the move into Germany; the opening of the Battle of the Bulge and his capture near Luxembourg on December 19, 1944; the forced march and boxcar transport; imprisonment at Stalag IV-B; labor commandos in Dresden; and an extended eyewitness account of...

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Typed copies of letters written by Elbert D. Humphries to his family in May 1945, following his liberation, describing the collapse of German control, his release, delousing and processing at Gera, and evacuation by air to France, with reflections on his months as a prisoner and on returning home.

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Typed copies of two letters written by Elbert D. Humphries to his family from Stalag IV-B, dated January 10 and January 20, 1945. The letters send greetings to family, ask after home, and reference his brother Malcolm's service.

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Letters, documents, and ephemera relating to the wartime service of the Humphries brothers. Includes Malcolm C. Humphries's U.S. Navy identification and separation card and typed copies of Elbert D. Humphries's prisoner-of-war and liberation letters home, together with a typescript of his prisoner-of-war narrative.

Scope and Contents Personal log kept by Malcolm Clayton Humphries, a U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, aboard the attack transport U.S.S. Griggs (APA-110). Entries begin April 14, 1945, with the ship's departure from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying roughly 1,400 Marines, and follow its passage through the Caribbean and Panama Canal into the Pacific, troop-transport duty, and the Okinawa area, including the writer's account of the end of the war in August 1945. Closing entries in December 1945 record his transfer to...