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Preferred Citation:

Diary on the end of World War II, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in July 2011.

Scope and Contents

Diary, 1945-1946, of an unknown person detailing the reactions to the end of World War II. It includes both handwritten diary entries and well as newspaper clippings cut out and glued into the diary. The cover includes a political cartoon entitled "New Light of Asia" and depicts firebombs falling on Tokyo.

Related Material

A Guide to World War II Resources in the Special Collections Research Center

Information about related materials is available at http://guides.swem.wm.edu/WorldWarII

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Diaries
• World War, 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945--Japan
• World War, 1939-1945--United States--Personal narratives