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<p>[QUOTE="Bookahtoo, post: 380926, member: 31"]I've had this stuff for a while. I've just been sitting on it and going back to it every once in a while to see if I can find more information about some of it.</p><p>What I have is more than 20 Prisoners of War Bulletins, informational newsletters put out by the American Red Cross monthly and sent to the families of servicemen and civilians in internment camps. I don't need help with those - just included them in the photo because it all came together.</p><p>The typed papers are about 40 letters from Red Cross National Headquarters. Most of them are to Home Service Workers & Field Directors from Edith Spray, Chief of the Resources Information Unit of the Services to the Armed Forces. They range from one page to 40 pages long. Some seem to be the original typed manuscript copies. They are meant to supplement the Handbook (which I don't have, and can't find). The letters contain all the information and details about prisoners and civilian detainees that anyone could need to know. Anyway.................is there a market for these documents? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]131575[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]131576[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bookahtoo, post: 380926, member: 31"]I've had this stuff for a while. I've just been sitting on it and going back to it every once in a while to see if I can find more information about some of it. What I have is more than 20 Prisoners of War Bulletins, informational newsletters put out by the American Red Cross monthly and sent to the families of servicemen and civilians in internment camps. I don't need help with those - just included them in the photo because it all came together. The typed papers are about 40 letters from Red Cross National Headquarters. Most of them are to Home Service Workers & Field Directors from Edith Spray, Chief of the Resources Information Unit of the Services to the Armed Forces. They range from one page to 40 pages long. Some seem to be the original typed manuscript copies. They are meant to supplement the Handbook (which I don't have, and can't find). The letters contain all the information and details about prisoners and civilian detainees that anyone could need to know. Anyway.................is there a market for these documents? [ATTACH=full]131575[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]131576[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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