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Moonlight and V.P.I. sheet music cover. NY:Words and Music, Inc., 1942

1942 Mid-winter Dance of V.P.I. Cotillion Club Dance Card cover;

1942 Mid-winter Dance of V.P.I. Cotillion Club Dance Card cover; Music by Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra

1942 Ninth Annual Ring Dance dance card inside; Music by Claude Thornhill and his orchestra

1942 Ninth Annual Ring Dance dance card cover; Music by Claude Thornhill and his orchestra

Pamphlet made during WWII rationing gives buyers ways to stretch their rationed butter using Knox Gelatin

The Marines' Hymn, 1942. Official song of the United States Marine Corps. Piano solo simplified.

The Marines' Hymn, arrangered by John Schaum, 1942.

A post card of the library at VPI.

A post card of the "teaching and administration building at VPI, 1942.

J.B. Atkinson

Erskin Hill

Faraway photo of trees surronding Blacksburg High School in 1942

Postcard of the corner of South Main & College St. in Blacksburg, VA

World War II Alumnus - Class of 1938

Alumni chapter meeting

Article on October 22, 1942 in the Virginia Tech reports that Corps cannons launch scrap drive.

The July 8, 1942 edition of the Montgomery News Messenger reports that the number of young men registering for the draft exceeds estimates.

Map of defense zones and list of volunteers from the March 1942 Montgomery News Messenger.

"Moonlight and V. P. I." was written in 1942 by Fred Waring and Charles Gaynor after the Corps of Cadets asked Waring to write a song for the 1942 ring dance.

Members of the V.P.I. board of visitors, which met yesterday in a called session to draw up resolutions in an effort to correct certain conditions at the college, are pictured here together with Governor Colgate W. Darden, Jr., who met with the…