Personal Narrative Manuscript/Mixed Material Photo, Print, Drawing Sumner Grant Collection
Veterans History Project Service Summary:
- War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: Battery A, 906th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion; Panama Coast Artillery Command
- Location of Service: Panama; Japan; Pacific Theater
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Collection Number: AFC/2001/001/20970
Sumner Grant was an architecture and design student at The Cooper Union in New York before he joined the Army. He served during World War II in the Panama Coast Artillery Command and, after the Japanese surrender, in the Army of Occupation. From 1944 to 1945, he illustrated a cartoon strip called "FUBAR," which ran in an Army publication "The Forty-Niner." While in Panama, he covered one wall of the mess hall with a humorous mural depicting many of his fellow GIs. His Veterans History Project collection consists of illustrated envelopes he sent to his fiancee in the Bronx. After his death in 2000, she donated the envelopes to the Project. Grant chronicled the highs and lows of GI life so well that the drawings are like letters in themselves.
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Title
- Sumner Grant Collection
Names
- Grant, Sumner
- Grant, Helen
Home State
- New Jersey
Headings
- - Grant, Sumner
- - World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal Narratives
- - United States. Army.
Repository
- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Gender
- Male
Status
- veteran
Service History
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World War, 1939-1945
- Branch of Service: Army
- Unit of Service: Battery A, 906th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion; Panama Coast Artillery Command
- Location of Service: Panama; Japan; Pacific Theater
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Dates of Service: 1942-1946
- Military Status: veteran
Materials
- Manuscript: Creative works [152 items] -- Handwritten document (collected 1944-1945)
- Manuscript: Clippings [1 item] -- Mixed (handwritten and typewritten documents) (collected 1944-10)
Collection Number
- AFC/2001/001/20970
Cite as
- Sumner Grant Collection (AFC/2001/001/20970), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Online Format
- image