McLean County Museum of History

Paul Purnell, Bellows AFB, Hawaii, 1965

Pen pals, two women looking at book, Padua, IL 1951

WWII, Saipan, The Marianas Islands, 1944

WWII, a Japanese sugar refinery in ruins, Infantrymen pass the ruins of a demolished sugar refinery. Blasted by bombs and naval gunfire. One curious gaze and they are off after the desperately fighting "Nips" (Japanese), Saipan, The Mariana Islands

WWII, Wreckage and ruin. Two American infantrymen probe ruins of demolished Jap sugar refinery blasted by bombs and naval gunfire, Saipan, The Marianas 1944

General Electric Company, General Purpose Control Department, 1601 General Electric Road, Bloomington, Illinois, circa 1980

General Electric Company, General Purpose Control Department, Route 66 and General Electric Avenue, (1601 General Electric Road), Bloomington, Illinois, circa 1976

Paul Purnell's locker, Hawaii, 1963

Paul Purnell, Kailua Beach, Hawaii, 1963

Phi Gamma Delta fraternity Fiji Rose Formal Dance, Bloomington, IL, 1953

Paul Purnell, Kailua Beach, Hawaii, 1963

Ivan Daley, Sgt. Ivan Daley, on furlough from New Caledonia, South Pacific, Bloomington-Normal, IL 1944