Japanese radio with bullet holes.

John Cook Wyllie, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts in Alderman Library, entered the war before the United States did. Wyllie joined the American Field Services and drove ambulances for the British in the Middle East. He later became an officer in the United States Air Force in the China-Burma-India theater. Several "hair-raising" experiences there led to his decoration by the American, British, and Chinese governments. At the war's end he returned to his desk in Alderman, bringing with him a bullet-riddled Japanese radio as a souvenir.