Jan 17, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jesse “Jess” R. Foley, Jr. (1916-1998) enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in July 1941. During the Second World War, Foley served in the 405th Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, Fifth Air Force....
Jan 16, 2023 | Artifact - Halls of Honor, Artifact - WW II
A native of Edinburg, Mississippi, Van T. Barfoot (1919-2012) enlisted in the US Army in 1940 and served in L Company, 157th Infantry, 45th Infantry Division during the World War II. He participated in the Allied invasions of Sicily in July 1943 and mainland Italy in...
Jan 15, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Miriam Hagan Collier (1916-1997), of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a civilian employee at Camp Shelby during the Second World War. She worked at Quartermaster Laundries on post as a seamstress and clerk from 1941 to 1946. Collier made this cape and decorated the...
Jan 14, 2023 | Artifact - Interwar Period, Artifact - WW I
In March 1929, 11 years after the First World War, Congress authorized fully-funded, government-organized pilgrimages for mothers and widows to visit American military cemeteries in Europe. Between 1930 and 1933, the United States government transported nearly 7,000...
Mar 31, 2019 | Artifact - WW II
Robert Edward Moody (1917-1941), of Utica, Mississippi, enlisted in the United States Navy on October 4, 1940. He served as a Seaman First Class aboard the USS Arizona (BB-39), stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. At the age of 24, Seaman Moody lost his life in the...
