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   Leonard John Kovar
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Leonard Kovar in flight suit at time of service		War: World War, 1939-1945
Branch: Army Air Forces/Corps
Unit: 727th Bomb Squadron, 451st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force
Service Location: San Antonio, Texas; Stamford, Texas; San Angelo, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, Arizona; Italy; Stalag Luft III, Germany; Miami Beach, Florida
Rank: Second Lieutenant
POW: Yes
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Sound Recording
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»Phonograph recorded message (side one) "To Lloyd, Don't play in mixed company. Len" [9/5/1945] (2 min.)
»Phonograph recorded message (side two) "To Lloyd, Don't play in mixed company. Len" (2 min.)
»Phonograph recorded message (side one) "For Lorraine, Two [?] and a Peep" (1 min.)
»Phonograph recorded message (side two) "For Lorraine" (2 min.)
»Phonograph recorded message (test) "For Lorraine" (0 min.)
»Audio Interview (51 min.)
Photos
»Photo Album  (63 photos)
Creative Works
»Original pencil drawing of veteran signed by artist. "Italy, 1944".
Official Documents
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Personal Correspondence
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Other Materials
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Official Documents (12 items)
Unit History: "The Shack: 43-15 DR" Unit History: "The Shack: 44-1 DR" Letter from the Army to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [1/26/1943]
Letter from the POW Information Bureau [1/9/1945] Letter from the Army Air Forces Headquarters in Washington to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [2/26/1945] Letter from Army finance department to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [3/3/1945]
Letter from the Army and a copy of the Congressional Record [4/12/1945] Letter from the War Information Bureau to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [4/19/1945] Memo from the American Red Cross about what to include in packages for Prisoners of War [8/1944]
Memo, "How American Red Cross Aids Prisoners of War" [11/1944] Letter to the next of kin of American POWs from the Army Service Forces [4/1945] Silhouette Handbook of United States Army Air Forces Airplanes
  
Personal Correspondence (318 items)
Letter to "Family" [1/4/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/6/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/7/1943]
Letter to "Folks," including cartoon drawn by Kovar depicting barracks life [1/7/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/9/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/10/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [1/11/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/12/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/14/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [1/15/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/17/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/18/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [1/19/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/20/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/22/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [1/26/1943] Letter to "Folks" [1/27/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/1/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [2/3/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/4/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/6/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [2/7/1943] Letter to "Folks", with clipped postage stamps for stamp collection [2/9/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/11/1943]
Letter to "Folks", with drawing depicting an Air Corps cadet entering a training facility overshadowed by buzzards [2/15/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/17/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/18/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [2/19/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/20/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/21/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [2/25/1943] Letter to "Folks" [2/28/1943] Letter to "Folks", includes blank 1040 A tax form for 1942 [3/2/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [3/14/1943] Letter to "Folks" [3/18/1943] Letter to "Folks" [3/20/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [3/27/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/1/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/3/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [4/7/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/11/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/20/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [4/23/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/26/1943] Letter to "Folks" [4/28/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [4/30/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/1/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/3/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [5/7/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/11/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/18/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [5/18/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/24/1943] Letter to "Folks" [5/27/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [5/30/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/2/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/5/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [6/8/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/9/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/11/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [6/14/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/17/1943] Letter to "Folks" [6/20/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [6/28/1943] Letter to "Folks" [7/18/1943] Letter to "Folks" [7/19/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [7/26/1943] Letter to "Folks" [7/29/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [8/1/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/5/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/8/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [8/9/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/13/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/18/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [8/22/1943] Letter to "Folks" [8/29/1943] Letter to "Folks" [9/1/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [9/10/1943] Letter to "Folks" [9/13/1943] Letter to "Folks" [9/18/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [9/27/1943] Letter to "Folks" [10/1943] Letter to "Folks" [10/4/1943]
Loose postage stamps clipped from envelopes and enclosed with letter of 10/4/1943 Letter to "Folks" [10/11/1943] Letter to "Folks" [10/17/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [10/17/1943] Letter to "Folks" [10/25/1943] Letter to "Folks" [10/29/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [11/17/1943] Letter to "Folks" [11/28/1943] Letter to "Folks" [12/7/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [12/19/1943] Letter to "Folks" [12/24/1943] Letter to "Folks" [12/31/1943]
Letter to "Folks" [1/2/1944] Letter to "Folks" [3/10/1944] Letter to "Folks" [3/24/1944]
Telegram from Kovar to his parents [3/24/1944] Letter to "Folks" [3/25/1944] Postcard from Kovar to parents [3/28/1944]
Letter to "Folks" [4/9/1944] Letter to "Folks" [4/17/1944] Letter to "Folks" [4/21/1944]
Letter to "Folks" [4/25/1944] Letter to "Folks" [5/1/1944] Letter to "Folks" [5/4/1944]
Letter to "Folks" [5/8/1944] Letter to "Folks" [5/10/1944] Letter to "Folks" [5/17/1944]
Letter to "Folks" [5/26/1944] Letter to "Folks" [5/29/1944] Letter to "Folks" [6/6/1944]
Letter to "Folks" [6/6/1944] Letter to "Folks" [6/17/1944] Telegram to Emil F. Kovar requesting money [6/19/1944
Letter to "Folks" [6/26/1944] V-Mail to family [July 1944] V-Mail to family [July 25, 1944]
Letter to "Folks" [6/29/1944] V-Mail to Folks [8/1944 Letter to Folks [8/1/1944]
Letter to Folks [8/7/1944] Letter to Folks [8/9/1944] Letter to Folks [8/16/1944]
Letter to Folks [8/19/1944] Postcard to Kovar's family written from POW camp [9/10/1944] Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [9/29/1944]
Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [10/16/1944] Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [10/29/1944] Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [11/7/1944]
Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [11/17/1944] Postcard to Kovar's family written from POW camp [11/26/1944] Postcard to Kovar's family written from POW camp [11/30/1944]
Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [12/27/1944] Postcard to Kovar's family written from POW camp [12/31/1944] Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [1/15/1945]
Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [2/23/1945] Letter to Folks [4/30/1945] Telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Emil J. Kovar [5/24/1945]
Letter to Folks [7/31/1945] Letter to Folks [8/2/1945] Letter to Folks [8/8/1945]
Letter to Folks [8/14/1945] Letter to Folks [8/20/1945] Letter to Kovar's family written from POW camp [n.d.]
Letter to Folks from Lorraine Kovar [3/24/1953] Typewritten letter to Folks from Len and Lorraine Kovar [4/3/1953] Typewritten letter to Folks from Len and Lorraine Kovar [4/18/1953]
Typewritten letter to Folks from Len and Lorraine Kovar [6/24/1953] Postcard of "West Boulder River", Montana, from Len Kovar to family [7/13/1953] Letter from Lorainne Kovar to family [7/12/1953]
Letter from Lorainne Kovar to family [7/22/1953] Letter from Lorainne Kovar to family [11/18/1953] Letter from Lorainne Kovar to family [7/29/1953]
Typewritten letter to family from Lorraine and Len Kovar [12/1953] Two postcards from Len and Lorraine Kovar to family [12/19/1953] Letter from Lorainne and Len Kovar to family [12/30/1953]
Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [12/30/1953] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [12/30/1953] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [1/17/1954]
Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [1/19/1954] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [3/27/1954] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [3/31/1954]
Mother's Day Card from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar [May 1954] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [5/22/1954] Letter from Len, Lorraine, and Timmy Kovar to family [5/30/1954]
Letter from Len Kovar to "Folks" [6/7/1954] Letter from Len Kovar to "Folks" [6/15/1954] Pamphlett, "Family Camp at Mimanagish" [7/1954]
Letter from Len Kovar to "Folks" [6/26/1954] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [12/4/1944] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [12/10/1944]
Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [12/17/1944] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [12/26/1944] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [12/31/1944]
Letter from Shirley Kovar to Leonard Kovar, composed on POW post stationary [1/6/1945] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [1/6/1945] Letter from Emil J. Kovar to son Leonard, composed on POW post stationary [1/9/1945]
Letter from Shirley Kovar to Leonard Kovar, composed on POW post stationary [1/30/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from his mother, composed on POW post stationary [2/9/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from his mother, composed on POW post stationary [2/11/1945]
Letter to Leonard Kovar from his mother, composed on POW post stationary [2/23/1945] Letter from Shirley Kovar to Leonard Kovar, composed on POW post stationary [3/11/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from his mother, composed on POW post stationary [4/25/1945]
Handwritten and typewritten letters from Mr. and Mrs. Kovar to their son, Leonard [8/10/1945] Letter from Mrs. John Coskran to Leonard Kovar, composed on POW post stationary [2/3/1945] Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar from unidentified writer [7/28/1944]
Letter from Leonard Kovar to Folks [9/5/1954] Letter from Rev. Leonard J. Kovar to his congregation, including a copy of a sermon [9/20/1954] Letter from Leonard Kovar to Folks [9/21/1954]
Letter from Leonard Kovar to Folks [10/8/1954] Postcard from the Kovars to Folks [2/21/1955] Letter from Leonard Kovar to Folks [2/25/1955]
Letter from Lorraine Kovar to Folks [3/1955] Letter from Mrs. Kovar, Leonard's mother [7/25/1939] Letter from "Pappy" to Leonard Kovar [5/1/1944]
V-mail from Mama to Leonard Kovar [8/3/1944] Letter from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/8/1944] Letter from Mama to Leonard Kovar [8/15/1944]
Letter from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/18/1944] Letter from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/18/1944] Letter from Mama to Leonard Kovar [8/19/1944]
V-Mail from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/22/1944] Letter from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/29/1944] Letter from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [8/30/1944]
V-Mail from "Pop" to Leonard Kovar [9/7/1944] Letters from "Pop" and Mama to Leonard Kovar [9/18/1944] Letters from "Pop" and "Suk" [11/17/1944]
Letter from Mama to Leonard Kovar [3/12/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from "Suk" [8/7/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from "Pop" [8/10/1945]
Letter from Pvt. L. [Lloyd] C. Harwell to Leonard Kovar [12/5/1942] Letter from Pvt. L. [Lloyd] C. Harwell to Leonard Kovar [12/28/1942] V-Mail from Leonard Kovar to "Folks" [7/18/1944]
V-Mail from Leonard Kovar to "Folks" [7/20/1944] V-Mail from Leonard Kovar to "Folks" [7/23/1944] V-Mail from Leonard Kovar to "Folks" [7/26/1944]
V-Mail from Leonard Kovar to "Folks" [7/27/1944] V-Mail from George W. Loumman [?] to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [11/4/1944] V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [11/2/1944]
V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [1/5/1945] V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar, "Saipan" [8/8/1944] V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar, "Saipan" [8/18/1944]
V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar, "In the Marianas" [11/30/1944] V-Mail from Pvt. Erwin W. Hamilton to Leonard Kovar [7/27/1944] Letter to Leonard Kovar from Norma Beyer [7/30/1944
Letter from Pvt. L. [Lloyd] C. Harwell to Leonard Kovar [8/8/1944] Letter from John T. Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [8/15/1944] Easter greating card from "Mom Coakran" [?] to Leonard Kovar [1945]
Letter from Charlotte Loach to Leonard Kovar [5/29/1945] Telegram from "Bart" to Leonard Kovar [6/3/1945] Letter from "Bill" to Leonard Kovar [6/5/1945]
Letter from Betty Alexander to Leonard Kovar [6/8/1945] Letter from Joseph A. Pastouck [?] to Leonard Kovar [6/8/1945] Letter from John Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [6/10/1945]
Letter from Carl Nagell to Leonard Kovar [6/16/1945] Letter from John Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [6/21/1945] Letter from "Bill" to Leonard Kovar [6/22/1945]
Letter from R. W. Petersen [?] to Leonard Kovar [7/1.1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from "Reue" [?] [8/1945] Letter to Leonard Kovar from several different writers [8/22/1945]
Letter from Mrs. John J. Roach, Sr. to Leonard Kovar [9/10/1945] Letter from John Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [10/9/1945] Letter from Pvt. L. [Lloyd] C. Harwell to Leonard Kovar [10/15/1945]
Letter from John Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [10/16/1945] Letter from Pvt. L. [Lloyd] C. Harwell to Leonard Kovar [10/31/1945] Greeting card from Harold Van Every [12/1945]
Letter from John Coakran [?] to Leonard Kovar [12/3/1945] Letter from Mrs. Tommye Ash to Mrs. Kovar [7/1944] Letter from Dorothy Gould, mother of Francis Gould, to Mrs. Kovar [7/25/1944]
Letter from Mr. and Mrs. John Roach to Mrs. Kovar [7/25/1944] Letter from Mrs. Joan Scheible to Mrs. Kovar [7/31/1944] Letter from "C. Lynch" to Mrs. Kovar [9/1944]
Letter from "C. Lynch" to Mrs. Kovar [9/1944] Letter from "J. A. Ash" to Mrs. Kovar [9/10/1944] Letter from "C. Lynch" to Mrs. Kovar [9/11/1944]
Letter from Mrs. E. S. Thornton to Mrs. Kovar [9/11/1944] Letter from Mrs. William Scheible, Jr. to Mrs. Kovar [9/11/1944] Letter from Fairy Mai Gockmeyer [?] [9/11/1944]
Letter from Dorothy Gould, mother of Francis Gould, to Mrs. Kovar [9/14/1944] Letter from Mrs. Margaret Roach Herington [?] to Mrs. Kovar [ 9/15/1944] Letter from Mr. and Mrs. John Roach to Mrs. Kovar [9/24/1944]
Letter from "J. A. Ash" to Mrs. Kovar [9/27/1944] Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bray to Mrs. Kovar [10/27/1944] Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Roach to Mrs. Kovar [10/29/1944]
Letter from "J. A. Ash" to Mrs. Kovar [11/7/1944] Letter from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bray to Mrs. Kovar [11/8/1944] Letter from Roger Gladhill to Mrs. Kovar [11/19/1944]
Letter from Mrs. William Scheible, Jr. to Mrs. Kovar [11/20/1944] Letter from Mrs. Aron Brittian [?] to Mrs. Kovar [11/26/1944] Letter from Mrs. Warren Ash to Mrs. Kovar [12/5/1944]
Letter from Mrs. William Scheible, Jr. to Mrs. Kovar [12/6/1944] Letter from Tommye Ash to Mrs. Kovar [12/23/1944] Letter from Mrs. Joan Scheible to Mrs. Kovar [12/29/1944]
Letter from Charlotte Roach to Mrs. Kovar [1/1/1945] Letter from Charlotte Roach to Mrs. Kovar [1/12/1945] Letter from Charlotte Roach to Mrs. Kovar [1/15/1945]
Letter from Mrs. Joan Scheible to Mrs. Kovar [1/16/1945] Letter from Mrs. Joan Scheible to Mrs. Kovar [1/24/1945] Letter from "Mrs. Roach, Jr." to Mrs. Kovar [2/1945]
Postcard from unknown recipient [2/1945] Letter from unknown recipient [2/18/1945] Letter from Mrs. Joan Scheible to Mrs. Kovar [2/25/1945]
Letter from "Mrs. Thornton" [badly water damaged] [3/1945] Letter from Mrs. Ash to Mrs. Kovar [4/1945] Letter from Mrs. Thornton to Mrs. Kovar [4/25/1945]
Letter from "C. Lynch" to "Friends" [badly water damaged] Letter from "Mrs. Lynch" to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [5/2/1945] Letter from James Jensen to Mrs. Kovar [5/12/1945]
Letter from Lucille Bray to Mrs. Kovar [5/29/1945] Water-damaged letter from Mrs. Thornton to Mrs. Kovar [6/3/1945] Postcard from Mrs. Thornton to "Folks" [6/6/1945]
Letter from Charlotte Roach to Mrs. Kovar [6/8/1945] Letter from Charlotte Roach to Mrs. Kovar [6/8/1945] V-mail to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [8/2/1944]
Letter to the Kovars from William Beczcalo [9/16/1944] Letter from William Beczkalo to the Kovars [10/8/1944] V-mail to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [11/7/1944]
V-mail to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [11/17/1944] Letter from William Beczkalo to the Kovars [11/27/1944] Christmas card from William Beczkalo to the Kovars [12/1944]
Postcard from William K. Bonner [?] to the Kovars [12/1944] Letter from William Beczkalo to the Kovars [12/6/1944] Letter from George Louman [?] to the Kovars [12/23/1944]
Letter from Roger Gladhill to the Kovars [ 12/27/1944] Letter from William Beczkalo to the Kovars [12/20/1944] Letter from Mrs. Dorothy Jacobson to the Kovars [1/4/1945]
V-mail to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [3/20/1945] Letter to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [2/13/1945] Letter to the Kovars from unknown writer [4/27/1945]
Letter to the Kovars from unknown writer [4/19/1945] Letter from Lloyd Harwell to the Kovars [5/23/1945] Letter to the Kovars from Erwin or Ervin Hamilton [6/19/1945]
Letter from J. R. Riley of the National Bushing and Parts Co. to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [9/5/1944] Letter from J. R. Riley of the National Bushing and Parts Co. to Mr. and Mrs. Kovar [6/1/1945] Letter to "Folks" [July 22, 1943] from Len Kovar
  
Other Materials (39 items)
Church program included with letter of 6/24/1953 Church program included with letter of 7/22/1953 Church program included with letter of 7/29/1953
Church bulletin, "Congregational Montana" [June 1954] Church bulletin, "The Bell" [June, July, August 1954] Church bulletin, "Congregational Montana" [May 1954]
One page of a 12 page letter or report detailing a forced march of POWs from one POW camp to another in winter 1945 Camp newsletter, "Stamford Flying School Flight Line" [5/26/1943] Church Bulletin, "The Bell" [March 1955]
High school newspaper, "Roosevelt Standard," [May 29, 1945] Birthday card from "Aunt Mildred" [1924] Baptism card [1937]
School report cards for Leonard Kovar High school graduation commencement invitation [1940] Macalester College Commencement Dance card
College report card Life insurance premium receipt Chain letter from "The Towel Club"
Drawing from a child Short story by Verna Kovar, Leonard's mother, written in 1945 Note card from the American War Dads, Minneapolis Chapter [10/1944]
Program from a "meeting of relatives of Prisoner of War , Nicollet Hotel" [11/12/1944] Two tickets to a "meeting of relatives of Prisoner of War , Saint Paul Auditorium" [2/17/1945] Prisoner of War Bulletin [3/1945]
Prisoner of War Bulletin [4/1945] Prisoner of War Bulletin [5/1945] Prisoner of War Bulletin [6/1945]
Notecard with notes from a meeting of relatives of Prisoners of War [n.d.] Notecard with notes from a meeting of relatives of Prisoners of War [n.d.] Mailing label for POW packages
Tobacco voucher and POW parcel mailing instructions Page from a POW bulletin with German prison camp locations Assorted envelopes and clippings
Newsclipping, "Bombardier is home from German prison" [n.d.] Assorted newsclippings News circulator [n.d.]
Radio program transcript Note written by Ed Kovar Booklet, "San Angelo Army Air Field Bombardier School."
  
 

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