The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 5
Pages from a pocket Japanese-English phrasebook join letters written from Sendai in early 1946, when a soldier of the 11th Airborne Division served during the American occupation of Japan. Food, barber-shop, and everyday vocabulary lists set beside descriptions of barracks life and snowy winter duty show how language and correspondence bridged distance and cultures alike.
Handwritten Personal Letter, WWII Moon Sammiet Correspondence Collection
Handwritten Wartime Letter, Longing for Home
Handwritten Love Letter Closing, Signed 'Foss,' Moon Sammiet WWII Letters Collection
WWII Military Mail Envelope, PFC Ross Moon to Miss Marianne Sammiet, APO 2135C, January 17, 1946
Handwritten Letter, "Dearest Marianne," January 13 (Moon Sammiet WWII/Postwar Letters Collection)
Handwritten Wartime Letter, Page 204 — Moon/Sammiet Correspondence Collection, WWII Era
Handwritten WWII-Era Letter, Moon Family Correspondence Collection
Page 3 of a Japanese-English Phrase Book, WWII/Occupation Era, Moon Collection
Page 4 of a WWII-Era Japanese-English Phrasebook, 'Moon' Collection
Page 5 of a WWII Pocket Japanese-English Phrasebook (Moon/Sammiet Letters Collection)
Page 8 of a WWII-Era Japanese-English Pocket Phrasebook
Page 9 of a Japanese-English Food Vocabulary Phrasebook, WWII/Occupation Era
WWII-Era Japanese-English Phrasebook, Page 10 – Food and Drink Vocabulary
English-Japanese Numbers Phrasebook Page (1-16), WWII/Occupation Era
Page from Japanese-English Number Phrasebook, WWII Souvenir Document
Japanese-English Numbers Phrasebook, Page 13 – Pocket Language Guide (Moon Sammiet WWII Letters Collection)
Page from Japanese-English Phrasebook, 'Shopping' Section, WWII/Occupation-Era Personal Effects
Page 15 of Japanese-English Phrasebook for Servicemen, Postwar Occupation Era
Page from Japanese-English Phrasebook, WWII/Occupation-Era Souvenir (Page 16)
Page from a Japanese-English Phrasebook, WWII-Era Personal Collection (Moon/Sammiet Papers)
Page 18 of a Japanese-English Bilingual Correspondence Booklet, Sample Receipt Dated 1 March 1945 (Tensho-do & Co.)
Page 19 of a Japanese-English Vocabulary Phrasebook, 'Occupations' Section -- Moon Sammiet WWII Collection
Page from Japanese-English Phrasebook/Dictionary, WWII Era, 'Moon Sammiet' Collection
Japanese-English Phrasebook Page 21 — Barber Shop Vocabulary (Moon/Sammiet Collection)
Japanese-Language Booklet Page Listing American National Holidays
Page from a Japanese-English Phrasebook, 'Asking the Way' Section, WWII-Era Souvenir Document
Japanese-English Phrasebook Page 24, WWII/Occupation-Era Pocket Guide, Moon Sammiet Collection
Japanese-English Phrasebook Page, Lesson 13 - Directions to the Post Office
Japanese-English Phrasebook Page 26, WWII-Era Pocket Conversation Guide (Moon Sammiet Collection)
Page from Japanese-English Phrase Book, 'Which Turning Must I Take?' and Related Travel Phrases, Page 27
Japanese-English Phrasebook, Page 28 -- Moon WWII Personal Collection
Page 29 of a WWII/Occupation-Era Japanese-English Phrasebook (Moon Collection)
Page 30 of a WWII/Occupation-Era Japanese-English Phrasebook: Railway and Station Vocabulary
WWII-Era Military Mail Envelope, Moon to Miss Marianne Sammet, APO San Francisco, January 20, 1946
Reverse Side of Envelope with Handwritten Annotations (Moon/Sammet Collection)
Personal Letter, "Hi Kid!" -- Jan 17, Moon Sammiet Wartime Correspondence Collection
Handwritten Wartime Love Letter Signed 'Ross' - Moon/Sammie Correspondence Collection
Envelope Addressed to Miss Marianne Sammet from PFC R. Moon, Army Postal Service, January 1946
Handwritten Letter to 'Marainne,' Dated January 21, 1946 - Moon Sammiet Collection
Handwritten WWII Love Letter Page
Handwritten WWII-Era Personal Letter, Page – Closing Endearment, Signed 'Ross'
WWII-Era Military Mail Envelope, Pfc. Ross Moon, 11th Airborne Division, APO 468 (January 1946)
Handwritten Letter to 'Dearest Marianne' from 11th Airborne Division, Sendai, Japan, Dated January 26, 1946
Handwritten WWII Letter Page - Personal Correspondence Referencing Replacement Depot and Overseas Distance (Moon Collection)
Handwritten Personal Letter, WWII-Era 'Moon' Correspondence Collection, Page from Part 5
WWII-Era Handwritten Love Letter, Moon/Sammiet Correspondence Collection
WWII Military Mail Envelope, Pvt. Ross Moon (11th Airborne Division, APO 468) to Miss Marianne Sammet, Richmond, California
Handwritten Letter Home Describing U.S. Occupation Duty and the Bombed City of Sendai, Japan, January 1946
