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01/07/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Telegram from Sumner Bernstein to father Israel regarding his expected arrival time in Boston.

01/03/1946, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein, written as he travels back to the US from the South Pacific. He begins writing in Guadalcanal; describes his travel to Oahu; military bureaucracy; wishes for family's good health.

Annual Report Of The Adjutant General Of The State Of Maine For The Years Ending June 30, 1945 And June 30, 1946 & History Of The State Guard From Its Inception To 30 June 1946, Office Of The Adjutant General

Maine Collection

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Years Ending June 30, 1945 and June 30, 1946 & History of the State Guard From Its Inception to 30 June 1946. (cover title)

This volume includes three distinct reports bound together:

- Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending June 30, 1945. (116 pgs.)

- Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending June 30, 1946. (86 pgs.)

- History Maine State Guard From Its Inception to 30 June 1946. (126 …

12/28/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding concern over mother's health; information and communications necessary to allow him official leave to come home.

12/26/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding life on base; monotonous schedule; correspondence with people from home; British politics; being Jewish around Christmastime; experience growing up Jewish in Portland.

12/25/1945 B, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding Christmas celebrations on base; Fascism, Communism, democracy; GOP; Marshall's talks with Chiang; postwar Germany; US postwar economic policies.

12/25/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding Christmas celebrations on base; colleague's emergency furlough; being Jewish around Christmastime.

12/23/1945, Sumner T. Bernstein

Sumner T. Bernstein Correspondence

Letter to family from Sumner Bernstein regarding a court martial he participated in; memories of home; thoughts on returning to Portland.

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.