Over Two-Hundred Piece WW2 US 5th AAF Radio Operator's Collection. Books, documents, photographs, rare wartime published 342nd Fighter Squadron History, Fighter Group newsletters, and other ephemera collected by Elbert Warren Hall of Weston, Massachusetts while serving in the Merchant Marine on the Esso Tanker SS Boston prior to WW2 and as a Sgt. in the 22nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 374th Troop Carrier Group, 5th Air Force in Australia and New Guinea from 1943-1945. Includes: (1) Thirty-six page handwritten diary of service on the SS Boston from Oct. 11-25, 1941, with details of his stay in Montevideo, Uruquay, noting his sighting of the German Cruiser Graf Spee, and other War related news; (1)Rare wartime yearbook entitled "342nd Fighter Squadron 'Scourgers' New Guinea Edition" dedicated to Medal of Honor Winner Colonel Neel Kearby (Hardcover, Quarto, n.p); (1) "Scott Field, United States Army Air Corps: A Pictorial and Historical Review of Scott Field" (Scott Field, Illinois, 1942), Quarto, softcover, n.p); (1) "Jungle Warfare: With the Australian Army in the South-West Pacific" (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1944), Quarto, hardcover, 208pp; (2) B/W photo portraits of Hall in uniform dated "Brisbane, Dec. 1942" and " Overseas Oct. 7, 1943" (1) B/W photo of 35th Fighter Squadron pilot inscribed "To Warren--My New Guinea Pal--Bill" (1) "The Guinea Wash" newsletter of the 35th Troop Carrier Squadron, May 24, 1943; (5) "Fighter Cover" Official Publication of V Fighter Command for February 28, 1943, March 28, 1943, April 4, 1943, May 2, 1943, and May 30, 1943; (4) "What's Cooking In the 22nd Squadron" Newsletter of the 22nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 5th Air Force for 3 February 1945, 10 Feb. 1945, 17 Feb. 1945 and 24 Feb. 1945; (1) "374th Troop Carrier Topics" Volume I, No. I, Published by and for Hdqrs, 21st Squadron and 6th Squadron, 374th Troop Carrier Group, November 18, 1943 (2) "Manila, Free Philippines" Newspaper, published daily by PWB, GHQ, OWI Unit for February 22, 1945 and February 27, 1945, each issue 2 pages; (1) Nine page Radio Operator's Plane Log kept by Sgt. Hall for Plane No. W552 (Pilot Lt. Wells) from 7 March 1945-13 March 1945 (1) Summary of W/T Radio Log on 14/1/1944, VH-CHH--Horn Island" by Sgt. Hall (1) Commendation Letter sent by Colonel Richard A. Legg, Commander, 35th Fighter Group, 5th AF on 24 May 1943 to "The Enlisted Men."