Travel literature on New Orleans, where Sesonske spent several weeks on furlough before heading overseas.

Sesonske's commemoration of Victory in Europe Day—May 8, 1945—on which Allied forces accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender, ending World War II in Europe.

The moustache in question. Yikes. Can't really blame Mom, can we?

More doodles on V-Mail from Mom.

A note from Alex's mom, sent around Halloween and complete with a witch doodle.

Leave it to Mom to be sure her war hero son's head can still fit through the door when he gets home. This poem affectionately mocking Alex's moustache is one of the many notes from his mom that he pasted into his scrapbook.

Photos taken at the April 1945 liberation of Landsberg Concentration Camp. Note Alex's captions—"Look and Weep" and "Lest We Forget"—and the way he's overlapped the photos to try to "censor" the horror from anybody not ready to see it.

"More atrocity pictures," writes Sesonske. Nobody knew the extent of the horrors occurring in the concentration camps, and liberators were shocked at the full picture.

The farewell message issued by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to the troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force at the end of World War II.

This page includes a varied collection of memorabilia: a pass authorizing temporary absence, a mess card, service stripes, and a 7th Army patch. The 7th Army, which evolved into the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) during the 1950s and 1960s, served in North Africa and Italy in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and France and Germany in the European theater between 1942 and 1945.