Margaret I. Saunders Correspondence, March 1945 Item Info
- Title:
- Margaret I. Saunders Correspondence, March 1945
- Creator:
- Saunders, Margaret I. (Margaret Isabelle Henderson), 1914-1999.
- Date Created:
- 1945-03
- Description:
- V-Mail correspondence by Margaret I. Saunders to her husband Lee Saunders, March, 1945. V-Mail for March 13, 1945, does not have Part 8. Lee Saunders served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the segregated, all African-American unit of Company C, 1332nd Engineer General Service Regiment. He would serve in the Pacific Theater of World War II in New Guinea, the East Indies, and Papua New Guinea. Margaret Saunders describes her and her family's experiences at home near the end of WWII.
- Subjects:
- Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945--African Americans
- Location:
- Greensboro; Guilford County; North Carolina
- Source:
- Margaret I. Saunders Papers. WWII Papers. Military Collection. State Archives of North Carolina
- Source Identifier:
- MilColl_WWII_16_Saunders_Margaret_I_Papers_194503
- Type:
- Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Margaret I. Saunders Correspondence, March 1945", She Changed the World, State Library of North Carolina
- Reference Link:
- https://she-changed-world.cb.ncpedia.org/items/coll064.html
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