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12/11/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding trip to Guadalcanal; experience traveling on Army plane; description of the island; visits to battle locations; thunderstorm; cemetery; attempt to locate Luther Tibbet's grave; lodgings; correspondence; Council for Judaism; Palestine; Zionism.

12/09/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding loading of ship to the US; planning for trip to Guadalcanal; correspondence; news clippings; commentary on generals in Europe; new Harvard undergraduate library; Nuremberg trials; Zionism.

12/09/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Aunt Anne, Uncle Joe, Joan and Bob from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; trip to Guadalcanal; Kumin; Zionism; confusion within US State Department; speculation on when he will be discharged.

12/05/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding personnel; labor disputes; Truman; the Republican Party; Truman-Attlee-King decisions about the atomic bomb; American relationship to the British Empire.

12/04/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding loading cargo ship to the US; corresponding with parents during their trip to New York; advice on college applications for sister Helen.

12/03/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding attendance at court martial; interest in military justice; Harvard-Yale football game.

12/01/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; detailed description of court martial case regarding robberies on the island; enjoyment of legal work.

12/01/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding correspondence; American Jewish Committee; Zionism; Portland City Council elections; point system for time served in the Army.

11/29/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding packages arriving from home; court martial duties; American conversations about the atomic bomb; US position toward China.

11/28/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; news from home; G.I. Bill of Rights; Palestine.

11/26/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding registering at Harvard; correspondence from mother about weekend in New Haven; details of a PFC court-martialed for sleeping on the watch.

11/25/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding assignment to a court-martial board; Harvard-BU football game; Palestine.

11/24/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding plans for loading cargo onto ships; meal with officers on the USS Kwajelein.

11/24/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Telegram from Sumner T. Bernstein's sister Helen to their father on his birthday.

11/22/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding friends he has made on base; relationships with enlisted men.

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11/21/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding Thanksgiving holiday; entertainment on base; father's birthday.

11/20/1945 C, Helen-Barbara Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to father from Sumner T. Bernstein's sister Helen passing along Sumner's birthday wishes.

11/20/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Telegram from Sumner T. Bernstein to his father with birthday wishes.

11/20/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding "Mildred Pierce" screening; life on base; Zionism; news from home.

11/19/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding candidates for 1948 election; Congress; postwar Germany; Palestine; American labor issues; American aid to Britain.

11/18/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding his mother's wartime charity work; American labor issues; football; Zionism.

11/17/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; correspondence; "Uncle Harry" screening; demobilization; Children of Palestine.

11/15/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding demobilization; life on base; correspondence.

11/14/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding theft of ammunition from base dump and subsequent investigation.

11/14/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding theft of ammunition from dump on base; U.S. maintenance of armed forces; life on base; demobilization.

11/14/1945 C, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner T. Bernstein from his father regarding birthday wishes; Sumner's studies at Harvard; trip to New York; football.

11/12/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding Communist China; Indonesian independence; Palestine; South America; life on base; correspondence.

11/12/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; U.S. labor issues; politics and control of atomic power.

11/11/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Handwritten note from Sumner T. Bernstein to his father wishing his father a happy birthday.

11/10/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner T. Bernstein regarding life on base; Armistice Day; response to letter from HB; Truman conscription-for-peacetime speech; Palestine; Zionism.