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12/21/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding personnel issues on base; promotion.

12/21/1945 B, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding mother's health; trip to Boston to visit family; talk Israel gave to scouts in Bath; Treasury Department under Truman.

12/20/1945, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding the health of mother's eye; sister Helen's progress in school; labor issues in US; British politics; law school; GI Bill.

12/20/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding point system for discharge from the Army; court martial he will be attending.

12/19/1945, Israel Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Sumner Bernstein from father Israel regarding mother's eye health; their appointment with Dr. Sachs in Boston; trip with mother to New York; Uncle Louis handling Bill Needleman's estate.

12/16/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to Aunt Anne, Uncle Joe, Bob, and Joan from Sumner Bernstein regarding trip to Guadalcanal; speculation about when he will be discharged; US responsibilities to the international community; citizenship.

12/16/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding meeting about the close out of the officers club (particularly what was to be done with their supply of alcohol); record keeping at ordnance office; upcoming court martial; pessimism around US politics; communism.

12/15/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding court martial; tentative timeline for base closure; family news; sister Helen's college plans; department of Veteran's Affairs.

12/15/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding typing up loose ends at the ordnance office; court martial; low morale on base; propaganda techniques among Nazis and Japanese governments.

12/13/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding trip to Guadalcanal; appointment as court-martial trial judge prosecutor; correspondence; GM-UAW dispute; US economy.

12/12/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding time on Guadalcanal; family's Thanksgiving celebrations; voter registration; Bill Needleman's death.

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.