Edward Boehm Collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Artillery leaflets produced by the United States Armed Forces shelled/dropped in Italy where Edward Boehm [donor's father] was assigned to the U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army as combat liaison propaganda officer with purpose of creating leaflets targeting Germans behind enemy lines. Books entitled “P.W.B/Shell Leaflets [Psychological Warfare Branch] containing leaflets fixed within books. Newspapers entitled Frontpost dating December 1943 through June 1945. Propaganda Leaflets produced by Germany targeted at Allied troops collected by Boehm. Identification card issued to Boehm during the second World War. Posters. Negatives, notes and information for book written by Edward Boehm entitled Behind Enemy Lines: WWII Allied / Axis Propaganda dated 1989