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Box Oversize 1

 Container

Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:

Victor E. Delnore photograph album, 1946-1949

 Item — Box: Oversize 1, item: VD-002
Scope and Contents

The photograph ablum includes original artwork in pen & ink and watercolor, photographs, and postcards.

Dates: 1946-1949

Victor E. Delnore scrapbook, 1946-1949

 Item — Box: Oversize 1, item: VD-003
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook with newspaper clippings and photographs compiled by Nagasaki Minshu Press as a farewell gift to Victor Delnore.

Dates: 1946-1949

Accordion-style farewell book with signatures in English and Japanese, 1949

 Item — Box: Oversize 1, item: VD-016
Scope and Contents

Inscribed on the cover: "To: Victor Delnore, Farewell, Nagasaki, Japan, 1949."

Dates: 1949

Victor E. Delnore papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers 0560-GWP
Abstract Lt. Colonel Victor E. Delnore commanded the Allied Occupation Forces in Nagasaki Prefecture from 1946 to 1949. As head of the Nagasaki Military Government Team, Delnore supervised early efforts to rebuild the atomic bomb-ravaged city of Nagasaki and to restore peace and stability throughout the prefecture. The Victor E. Delnore Papers include policy statements, directives, speeches (most notably his 1948 address at the historic first Nagasaki ceremony commemorating victims of the atomic...
Dates: 1931-2015; Majority of material found within 1945-1949