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[Identification of item], in the Pauline Staley Loy Papers #05601, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Alice Murray Melvin in September 2014 (Acc. 102093).

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Processed by: Amelia Holmes, February 2015

Encoded by: Amelia Holmes, February 2015

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• Camp McCain (Miss.)
• Fort Bragg (N.C.)--Pictorial works.
• Fort Eustis (Va.)
• Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Great Lakes, Ill.)--Pictorial works.
• Love-letters--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Loy family.
• Loy, David, 1913-1981.
• Loy, Pauline Staley.
• Military bases--California--San Francisco.
• Military bases--Hawaii.
• Naval Base Norfolk (Va.)
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• Staley family.
• United States. Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• United States. Army--Military life--History--20th century.
• World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.

Pauline Staley Loy (1918-2009) was born in Alamance County, N.C., to John Wade and Maude Councilman Staley, and was married to David Loy.

The collection contains letters to Pauline Staley Loy of Burlington, N.C., and to Staley family members written by friends and family serving in World War II. Letters from David Loy, Pauline Staley Loy's future husband, document the development of their relationship as well as life on base at Fort Eustis, Va., at Camp Stoneman in California, and on a base in the Hawaiian Islands. Letters from Edison Moody, another suitor of Pauline Staley Loy, discuss life at Camp Bradford in Norfolk, Va. There are also letters from Pauline Staley Loy's brother Clyde Staley to family members describing life at the Atlanta Ordinance Motor Base in Atlanta, Ga., and at Camp McCain, Miss., as well as letters from her brother Lynn Staley describing life on base in San Francisco, Calif. Also included is a postcard book, 1941, of Fort Bragg, N.C.; a postcard of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill.; and Lynn Staley's certificate of honorable discharge.