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1. Andres Soriano papers, 1940-1984

   500 items. 3 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Army officer and Filipino industrialist. Correspondence, speeches, reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Soriano's service on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur during World War II and to conditions in the Philippines during the war.

2. Robert Edgar Cecil papers, 1942-1945

   3,000 items. 7 containers plus 1 oversize. 4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Insurance executive. Correspondence, copies of minutes of meetings, reports of committees, notices and orders, camp publications, rules and regulations, financial reports, medical records, studies of food and nutrition, organization charts, and other papers relating to the administration of the Japanese prison camp at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila and also the camp at Los Baños in the Philippines where Cecil was interned during World War II.

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3. Herbert Bain Knowles papers, 1941-1945

   400 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Correspondence, orders to duty, subject files concerning invasion plans and occupation reports for Guam, Japan, Kwajalein Islands (Marshall Islands), Leyte Island (Philippines), Lingayen (Luzon, Philippines), Okinawa Island (Japan), Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands), and Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati), and printed matter relating to Knowles's service with the Amphibious Forces in the Pacific during World War II.

4. Francis Bowes Sayre papers, 1861-1967

   8,100 items. 27 containers. 10.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Diplomat and statesman. Correspondence, official reports and communications, writings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Sayre's diplomatic career and his role as a spokesman for Christianity and the Episcopal Church. Includes a reading copy of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points message to Congress, telegrams, election returns, and other papers pertaining to Wilson.

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5. K.C. Emerson papers, 1937-1994

   900 items. 10 containers plus 2 oversize. 4 linear feet. 4 digital files (55.08 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer, entomologist, prisoner of war. Correspondence, notebooks, military papers, writings, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers as well as digital files of sound recordings pertaining to Emerson's life and career in the United States Army, both as an officer and as a civilian, with a particular emphasis on his experience as a prisoner of war in World War II. The papers also document his work as an entomologist focusing on lice.

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6. Fox Movietone newsreel collection--World War II paper records, 1922-1946

   14,000 items. 37 containers plus 7 oversize. 16 linear feet. -- Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Cameramen’s dope sheets (detailed notes of stories filmed), continuity sheets (synopses of newsreels distributed to theaters), and turnovers (one sentence descriptions of each story filmed) from this major pioneer in the newsreel industry. Collection also contains other paper materials including telegrams, speeches, photographs, programs, and memoranda that provide details of the newsreels created by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Although the entire Fox Movietone newsreel collection spans 1916-1963, these materials document the World War II period.

7. William Edward Riley papers, 1941-1948

   800 items. 5 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Marine Corps officer. Correspondence, operation plans and reports, memoranda, notes, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to Riley’s World War II service on the staff of Admiral William Frederick Halsey, commander of South Pacific Area and commander in chief of the United States Navy 3rd Fleet; invasions of the Philippines and Ulithi (Micronesia); and United States Marine Corps and United States Navy demobilization efforts after the war.

8. Theodore Stark Wilkinson Jr. papers, 1893-1971

   5,550 items. 31 containers plus 3 oversize. 10.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer. Personal and official correspondence, speeches, memoranda, diaries, biographical information, dispatches, transcripts, maps, plans, photographs, clippings, printed matter, and a scrapbook relating to Wilkinson’s naval career.

9. Hayes, Hollister, and Kelman families papers, 1826-2012

   6,000 items. 21 containers. 8.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, lectures and sermons, genealogical material, and printed matter pertaining chiefly to members of the Hayes family and their careers as Presbyterian missionaries in China. Includes papers of Margaret Hayes Hollister; her parents, John David Hayes and Barbara Monteath Kelman Hayes; her paternal grandparents, W. M. Hayes and Margaret Young Hayes; her maternal grandfather, John Kelman; and her paternal great-grandfather, David Hayes.

10. World War II unit route maps collection, 1944-1945

    85 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    The World War II unit route maps collection consists of maps created by individual U.S. military units commemorating and outlining their movements, engagements, and routes of travel during the second World War. The maps primarily depict historical and geographic landmarks and major events pictorially. Most maps were created by units of the U.S. Army at the division and battalion level, and many are undated, but presumed to have been created in or around 1945 at the conclusion of the war. Units operating in Western Europe -- particularly France, the Low Countries, and Germany -- have the most representation, with select maps depicting Italy, North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, the Philippines, and the Aleutian Islands. The collection consists of 85 unique maps.