Scope and Content: Diaries, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings written or collected by Lieutenant Don Watters during his military service in World War II, 1942-1946. The collection focuses on Watter's observations regarding military life, basic training, post-war clean up, German soldiers, the atomic bomb and the death of Adolph Hitler.

Biographical History: Don Albert Watters was born 21 December 1912 in Ravenna, Ohio to Albert Edward Watters and Florence A. (Gray) Watters. He earned a B.A. from Hiram College, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Dr. Watters taught Speech and Theatre at Hanover College from 1937-1962. During World War II, he served in the military beginning in 1942, and was sent to Europe from 1944-1946. Dr. Watters was married to Mollie Jean Dorsey on 29 May 1942 in Kokomo, Indiana. Don Watters died in New York on 13 October 1968.

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Creator

• Watters, Don Albert, 1912-1968

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945--Diaries

• Military

• World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives

• World War, 1939-1945

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Identifier

• MSS58_FindingAid

Keyword

• Hanover College, Don Watters Papers, MSS 58

• Finding Aid

Date created

• 2022

• 1942-1946

Resource type

• Book

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/