Dear Randy,
Since your friend is nearby in Virginia Beach, I would suggest she call John
Quarstein at the Virginia War Museum in Newport News (www.warmuseum.org)
The telephone number there is
757-247-8523
I think he would know EXACTLY what to do with that incredible treasure.
Deane F. Mills
Yorktown VA
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From: "Randy Cabell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:05 AM
Subject: WWII History


I have a friend at Virginia Beach who has her father's diary from WWII and
believes it should be preserved and published.  He was an officer in the
Army Air Corps, captured with the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, and spent
the rest of his life as a POW.  He was the senior officer in camp.  He died,
but his fellow POWs brought the diary back.

As you may guess the pages are getting old and brittle, so if anything is to
be done with the diary, it probably should be done in the next few years.

Is there any organization in Virginia, the U.S. Army, or anyplace else who
is interested in gathering such documents, with an eye toward preserving
and/or printing them?

Randy Cabell
Boyce, Virginia

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