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Papers of the Shackelford Family, Accession # 3525-m, 3525-aa, 6558, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
The Shackelford Family Papers were made a gift to the University on November 20, 1980.
The collection contains World War I and II correspondence of members of the Shackelford family. Topics include military training and the war in France, 1917-1918; employment with the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation's Legal Division; SHAEF messages from Eisenhower re the surrender of Germany, 1945 May 7; tours of duty in Hawaii, Okinawa, and China during and after World War II, 1943-1946, particularly air raids, victory celebrations, fighting on Okinawa, U. S. forces in China at the close of the war, Chinese nationalists and the Communist revolution; as well as the formation of the Monticello Graveyard Association and a proposed armory on University of Virginia grounds.
Letters re: GSS's training in a cavalry military school in France, censorship of outgoing mail,etc. during WWI.
Letters re: RGL's military schooling in France, and his work on the Front during WWI. Includes one letter to his parents.
Letters re: GSS's training at a military cavalry school in France during WWI.
Includes four letters (May 1913) re: formation of the Monticello Graveyard Association at the University. Jefferson Randolph Kean was president of the MGA.
Printed material re: the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, where Virginius Randolph Shackelford was employed. Charles M. Schwab was Director-General.
Printed material re: Red Cross activities and a patriotic festival in Orange, Virginia. Includes copies of speeches delivered.
Re: the surrender of Germany in WWII. Reads in part, "A representative of the German High Command signed the unconditional surrender...," "signed Eisenhower."
Letters re: GGS's tours of duty in California, Hawaii, and China during WWII; mention of many University of Virginia graduates, and friends and relatives in Orange, Virginia.
Re: rewiring, making safe, and pludering a mine-filled cave in Okinawa.
Re: "the prospects for V-J" [victory over Japan]; loss of the [U.S.S.] Underhill.