The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections The University of Toledo Finding Aid William Emerson Hoopes Scrapbook, 1940-1946, 1975-1978 MSS-287 |
Size: .25 lin. feet
Provenance: Earl Hoffsis; items were given to Hoffsis from Hoopes, who is deceased and had no relatives
Access: Open
Collection Summary: Consists of a scrapbook of items related to William Emerson Hoopes’s service in the military during WWII, as well as loose items also related to his service that include photographs, postcards, correspondence, newsletters, and diaries.
Subject(s): War, Soldiers, and Veterans
Related Collections: Toledo China-Burma-India Veterans Association Records, MSS-209
Processing Note: The organization of this collection is as follows: The scrapbook was left intact, and the loose items were organized chronologically with the undated items at the end.
Copyright: The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns. Researchers bear full legal responsibility for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code. The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.
Completed by: Mark Troknya, September 2014
Biographical Sketch
William Emerson Hoopes was born in 1908 and passed away in 1993. He was married to Lucy Sousley. He was a member of the 167th Military Police Company in the China-Burma-India campaign of World War II. The scrapbook appears to document Hoopes’s trip through Calcutta and back to the United States at the conclusion of the war.
Scope and Content Note
The William Emerson Hoopes scrapbook consists mainly of a scrapbook from Hoopes’s year of service in World War II. Some of the documents, such as his registration certificate, date back to 1940. Most items within the scrapbook are from the year 1945, while he was serving in Calcutta, through his honorable discharge on October 27, 1945.
The loose items include correspondence written through the years from friends/other soldiers as well as diary entries, menus from army meals, and photographs. The last dated item is from 1978.
The scrapbook has been left intact, and the loose items were organized chronologically, with the undated items found at the end.
Folder List
Box |
Folder |
Item |
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1 |
Scrapbook, 1940-1945 |
1 |
2 |
4 various menus, 1944-1945 |
1 |
2 |
Company B Third Platoon List, 1944 |
1 |
2 |
Diary entries (written), January 10-February 6, 1945? |
1 |
2 |
Diary entries (typed), January 10-February 6, 1945? |
1 |
2 |
Laundry letter, March 31, 1945 |
1 |
2 |
Extract letter, September 8, 1945 |
1 |
2 |
Diary entries (written), September 10-October 21, 1945 |
1 |
2 |
Souvenir Edition “Heading Home,” March 18, 1946 |
1 |
2 |
Clipping about Paul Wells (other serviceman), June 1, 1975 |
1 |
2 |
Letter from Paul Wells, July 5, 1976 |
1 |
2 |
Letter from Paul Wells, December 11, 1978 |
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Undated materials |
1 |
2 |
Various reunion attendance lists |
1 |
2 |
Picture of Hoopes (younger in uniform) |
1 |
2 |
Picture of Hoopes (older in suit) |
1 |
2 |
Poem/Song, “The toughest of them all” |
1 |
2 |
Letter from Ted (another serviceman) |
1 |
2 |
Addresses of CBI Buddies |
1 |
2 |
Map of Journey of the U.S.S. E.T. Collins |
1 |
2 |
Stillwell Road Map/Drawing |