Book excerpt: Description: This series consists of five photographs and two newspaper clippings from the service of Roy Rickerson. The bulk of the photographs were taken while in the European Theater of Operations and the clippings are both from Louisiana newspapers and feature Rickerson.;Military correspondence, certificates, souvenirs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and maps from the service of Roy Rickerson, who was in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in an Operational Group in North Africa, Italy, France, the Balkans, Germany, Norway, Burma, and China as a Tactics Instructor.The collection is arranged into four series: I. Military correspondence and documentation, August 1943-December 1952; Souvenirs, 1944-1945; Photographs and newspaper clippings, 1944-1945; and IV. Maps.