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Only A Suggestion By Evoe - The following verse, published in Punch (London) this month, is the work of E. V. Knox, the editor, who is also one of the principal contributors to the magazine." August 1939 written at the bottom

Finality by Unknown. December 1942 written at the bottom

War Verse Enriched by Yank Flier, 19, Killed December 11 "A sonnet of WW2, ranked by Poet Archibald Macleish, Librarian of Congress, with Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" and John McCrae's "In Flanders Field" of WWI, was published tonight by the New York Herald Tribune. The Herald Tribune said the author was John Gillespie Magee, Jr., nineteen-year-old American flier killed last December 11 in action with the Royal Canadian Air Force. His sonnet, High Flight has been placed with The Soldier and In Flanders Fields in a newly opened exhibition of Poems of Faith and Freedom at the Library of Congress.

The Map by James Walker, R.A.F., 1943 written at the bottom.

High Flight by John Magee

Good-by, GI by A.P. Herbert

Gasometrics by the Boston Herald. Handwritten Jan. 1943 Cincinnati Enquirer at the bottom

The Other Little Boats by Edward Shanks. 1941 written at the bottom.

Battle Hymn - Chicago Tribune Jan. 1942

What Matters - Feb. 1942

Bataan's Beatified - April 1942

The Creed - `1942

The Marching Feet - Jan. 1943 Enquirer

Madcap Jap - Frank Lynn, New York Sun, Feb 1942

Negro Pens Lines, Tribute to Dead at Pearl Harbor - 1942

Poland - The Polish Review Vol. II #33 New York, N.y. Sep. 21 1942

The Hidden Drums - Adin Ballou, New York Herald-Tribune, Oct. 1941

A Soldiers' Song - 1939

I Spare No Class, Or Cult, Or Creed - All Owe Me Homage General Patton Says in Colorful Poem -- Fear - General George S. Patton Jr. 1945

The Synagogue Review - September 1942 - Organ Of the Associated British Synagogues, Vol XVII No. 1 - Intercession

A Fighting Man's Version of 'Night Before Chrismas - December 1951 - Korean War - Lt. Col. Darrell T. Rathbun

Glad to Know You - Chicago December 20, 1944, Number 15. "An effective and most touching poem was read by Rabbi Singer in his sermon last Friday. To get its dramatic effect, it is suggested that you read it aloud. This poem was found among the possessions of a soldier who was killed in action in Sicily.

By and Unknown Soldier "Here is the mystery poem of World War II. Written on ascrap of paper and called A Soldier His Prayer it fluttered into the hands of a fighter crouched in a trench during the battle against Rommel for El Agheila. It was entered in a poetry contest conducted by The Crusader, the British Eighth Army's Weekly paper. published anonymously, it won - but its author never knew it. He is dead or missing." 1945