Dates: 1945
The papers of Samuel B. Smizer consist of two diaries he kept while stationed on Okinawa during the last weeks of the war.
Size: 2 linear inches (14 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was received with this collection.
Processed by: Laura Zerr (2011) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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Samuel B. Smizer was born on April 15, 1908. He grew up in or near Paris, Missouri. During World War II, he served as a Corporal in the 36th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, U.S. Army Air Forces. After the war, he worked as a photographer and as a designer of headstones. He died on May 21, 1956 and is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Paris, Missouri, next to his wife, Ernestine O'Neal Smizer.
The Samuel B. Smizer Papers consist of two diaries he kept while stationed on Okinawa in 1945. These diaries outline his day-to-day activities as well as his thoughts and feelings in regard to the war, censorship, and the use of the atomic bomb against Japan. The first diary has entries from July 1945. The second has entries from August 1945, with one entry from September.
The World War II Collection at the Truman Library contains additional materials relating to the war.
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DIARY FILE, 1945 Two diaries kept by Smizer during World War II. Arranged chronologically. |
Box 1
- 1945, July
- 1945, August-September