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Pastor Donald Bing
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
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Ralph Rogers Wheeler Papers: Finding Aid, Bethany Latham
Ralph Rogers Wheeler Papers: Finding Aid, Bethany Latham
Finding Aids
This collection contains photographic prints, newspaper clippings, conference programs, photocopies from various sources, military records, booklets, original essays, and more most likely compiled by Ralph Rogers Wheeler (1918-2004), an Alabama native. Items relate to Wheeler’s life and especially his military service and time as a Japanese prisoner of war. Beginning in 1942, he was first housed in a prison camp in the Philippines, and then sent via ship to a prison camp near Osaka, Japan. He was rescued in 1945 after Japan’s surrender. Supplementary materials appear to be related to research he did into Bataan and Corregidor, as well as …