Book excerpt: Description: This series consist of a photograph and two pieces of correspondence from Miss Lena Nichols, Van Buren, Missouri, to Private Lynn Rose, Atlantic City Training Center, New Jersey.;Personal correspondence, photographs, military documents, and government documents from the service of Staff Sergeant Lynn Rose, who was killed in action while serving as a gunner on the B-26 "Draggin Lady" with the 599th Bombardment Squadron, 397th Bombardment Group (M) in the European Theater of Operations. The collection is arranged into five series: I. Personal correspondence from Lynn Rose Jr., December 1942-December 1943; II. Personal correspondence from Lynn Rose Jr., January 1944-November 1944; III. Photographs; IV. Military and government documents, 1942-1945; V. Personal correspondence from Miss Lena Nichols, February 1943.