SJCPLS Online Event: WWII Era St. Johns Resources @ the State Archives - Youtube
Online tutorial explaining how to find St. Johns County World War II resources housed in Tallahassee that have been digitized and made available for free online. Information is also shared on how to gain access to non-digitized documents.
Dr. Josh Goodman
<a href="https://www.dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/archives/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida Department of State: Archives; State Archives of Florida<br /><br /></a><a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Florida Memory: State Library and Archives of Florida</a><br /><br /><a href="http://archivescatalog.info.florida.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">State Archives of Florida Online Catalog</a>
June 30, 2021
<a href="https://sjcpls.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">St. Johns County Public Library</a>
State Library and Archives of Florida
Video on website; url provided below
English
Video, 28:39
[Bob Hope in Mannheim, Germany]
USO Show members with soldiers and/or Army airmen in Mannheim, Germany with newspapers that have the headline "Peace." Some people are holding wine/beer bottles or glasses, and cigarettes.<br />USO members are in the second/third row, L-R: Jack Pepper, Jerry Colonna, Gale Robbins, Bob Hope, Patty Thomas, and June Brunner
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
[1945]
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[Bob Hope at Fleet Hospital #110]
Bob Hope performing on a lawn at Fleet Hospital #110 for the patients.
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
Unknown Date
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Bob Hope Dancing on a Stage
Bob Hope dancing on a stage in front of a live military orchestra as part of USO show with a truck outfitted with loudspeakers. Audience crowded around the truck.
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
Paramount Pictures, Inc.
1944
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[USO Show in Bizerte, Tunisia]
Overhead shot of audience and Bob Hope on a make-shift stage.
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
[1943]
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Bob Hope on Stage
Bob Hope on stage with soldiers crowded around the make-shift stage and even sitting up in a tree to his right.
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
Unknown date
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[USO Show in Bizerte, Tunisia]
P-38 fighter base near Bizerte
L-R: Tony Romano, Bob Hope, Frances Langford, and Jack Pepper on a makeshift stage
<a href="https://bobhope.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation (bobhope.org)</a>
Unknown Date
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Special Archives Publications, Florida National Guard
SAP 7 - Unit War Report, 149th Field Artillery Battalion, 1940-1944
SAP 8 - Unit War Reports, 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry, 1944-1945
SAP 15 - Florida Fatal Casualties (All Services), World War I, World War II
SAP 17 - A Florida County's War, Alachua Goes to War
SAP 20 - 124th Infantry Regiment, Camp Blanding, Florida 1941
SAP 45 - 124th Infantry Regiment, Driniumor River Campaign, Logan Narrative
SAP 58 - 124th Infantry Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943
SAP 60 - Florida National Guard Killed or Died, World War II, Biographical and Service Abstracts
SAP 62 - Florida Regiments: World War II, 1988 Reunion Veteran's Biographical and Service Abstracts
SAP 96 - 106th Quartermasters: Camp Blanding, 1941 Reprint
SAP 119 - 265th Coast Artillery, Selected Abstract Biographies, World War II
SAP 120 - Unit Summary Histories: Nine Blanding Divisions, World War II
SAP 133 - Summary Histories: World War II, Regular Army Infantry and Cavalry Divisions
SAP 134 - Summary Histories: World War II, National Guard Divisions
SAP 135 - Summary Histories: World War II, Reserve Army Infantry Divisions
SAP 136 - Summary Histories: World War II, Airborne and Armored Divisions
SAP 137 - Summary Histories: World War II, Independent Regiments, Special Units Army Air Corps, Marine Corps Divisions
SAP 147 - Movement of 31st Division Mindanao to United States 1945, Part I
SAP 148 - Movement of 31st Division Mindanao to United States 1945, Part II
In the late 1980s, Florida National Guard historian Robert Hawk created a series of Special Archives Publications for distribution to public and college libraries. These publications were later digitized and made available online at the University of Florida Digital Collections website.
The Special Archives Publications specific to World War II may be accessed here on the World War II Resources in Northeast Florida website.
Florida Department of Military Affairs
various dates, reprinted in 1980s
Digital Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida <a href="https://ufdc.ufl.edu/flng" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://ufdc.ufl.edu/flng</a>
19 PDF documents
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Government documents
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Florida for the Years 1945 and 1946
This is an excerpt from the annual report of the Adjutant General of Florida. Members of the Florida National Guard who died while on active federal service during World War II are identified.
Florida Department of Military Affairs
[1946]
Brigadier General Vivian Collins
<a href="https://archive.org/details/ReportOfTheAdjutantGeneralOfTheStateOfFloridaForTheYears1945And" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://archive.org/details/ReportOfTheAdjutantGeneralOfTheStateOfFloridaForTheYears1945And</a>
4 pgs. PDF
English
Government document
Battle Honors of the 31st Infantry Division
This is an excerpt from a scanned copy of the History of the 31st Infantry Division to identify the units of the 31st Division which received battle honors.
31st Infantry Division
Army and Navy Publishing Company
1946
Copyright 1946 by the 31st Infantry Division
6 pgs. PDF
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Monograph