Information Sheet

 

 

R         Stone, James Blain, 1923-1999.

1189                Correspondence, 1943-1945.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is correspondence written during World War II between James B. “Stony” Stone, who served in an Ordnance Battalion in the United States Army in the Southwest Pacific Theatre, and his parents, who lived in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.  The letters include news of friends and family, and a few newspaper clippings.

 

James Blain Stone, Jr., was born in at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri, on 25 Sep­tember 1923, the son of James Blain Stone, Sr., and Ada Johnson (or Johnston).  He died in Springfield on 25 December 1999 and is buried in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.  During the war his parents lived at 769 W. Walnut.  After the war “Stony” lived at 823 W. Walnut and worked after 1952 for the St. Louis-San Francisco (“Frisco”) Railway Company.

 

There are twelve items in this collection, including ten letters from Stone to his parents, one letter from his parents to Stone, and a packet of newspaper clippings, mostly about flooding in southwestern Missouri in May 1943, from his parents to Stone [SEE the Shelf List.].  Due to war­time censorship, the letters from Stone to his parents aren’t very informative, noting essentially that he was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, Camp Stoneman in California, and various locations in New Guinea.  After advanced training Stone was assigned to the 818th Ordnance Bat­talion, with which his APO addresses indicate he served at Port Moresby, Oro Bay, and Biak Is­land.  One letter related that he was a crane operator.

 

 

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