This folder includes the following:

• Article written by McMurrey called “San Jacinto County Boys in the Service,” describing the weather and status of the Y-Force in China.
• Two-page article written by Barbara McMurrey Hyde and Beverly Fae McMurrey giving a family history and history on their father’s life.
• Y-Force casualty list from January 1, 1944 to October 24, 1944

This folder contains a copy of pages from a travel guide, giving information about the Yunnan Province and other areas of Southwest China.

This folder contains the following:

• Copy of April 21, 1951, Memorial Student Center dedication ceremony pamphlet, with a list of the Aggie dead honored.
• A pin from the opening of the Museum of Yunnan-Burmese Anti-Japanese War, a.k.a. the Tengchong War Museum.

This folder contains the following:

• Letter from Col. John Stodter to Fae McMurrey concerning the death of Major McMurrey. May 21, 1944
• Unsigned letter to Fae and Beverly McMurrey that mentions the April 21, 1951 dedication of the Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M, which lists McMurrey’s name among the dead from the Class of 1931. June 5, 1995
• Letter to Mr. Stephen McMurrey from John Adragna, asking if he was a descendant of William C. McMurrey or knew of them. May 29, 2003
• Email to Barbara McMurrey Hyde from Wen Jiang, discussing the re-dedication of the memorial to the re-taking of Tengchong, and asking for information about William C. McMurrey. July 6, 2003
• Email to Wen Jiang from Barbara McMurrey Hyde, describing medals won by Major McMurrey. July 6, 2003
• Email to Barbara McMurrey Hyde from Wen Jiang, about a poem written by a senior official in Yunnan about the Tengchong battle, and it also mentions another known American killed during the battle, Lt. Kirk Schaible, Jr. July 7, 2003
• Letter to Wen Jiang from Sun Min and Zhang Dongpan, announcing their discovery of McMurrey’s gravesite in China until he was shipped back to Texas in 1947. December 20, 2003
• General letter sent out to locate descendants of the casualties of the Y-Force and Army Air Force during the Salween Campaign. A list of the servicemen killed and details of the Tengchong memorial are also included, and contact information for John Adragna and John Easterbrook, the grandson of General Stilwell. Undated
• Email to David Chapman from Ken Stanton, giving thanks for assistance with getting various parties together for a Chinese film crew’s documentary. January 30, 2006
• Email to David Chapman from Barbara McMurrey Hyde, thanking him for arrangements made for her and her sister’s visit, and for the shots filmed at Cushing Library by the Chinese documentary crew. Also mentions a visit to the library by Wen Jiang. February 5, 2006

This folder contains miscellaneous photographs, 30 in total, of McMurrey’s 1944 funeral, Kunming, Burma Road, the Chinese Memorial Gardens, the 1944 gravesite, Barbara McMurrey Hyde, Beverly Fae McMurrey, Shan Stodter, Carl Hyde, Wen Jiang, Tengchong, the Salween River, the mayor of Baoshong, the Mekong Delta, Chinese villagers, both the old and new headstones commemorating the American liaisons, the War Museum in Tengchong, and Sung Shan Mountain.

This folder contains the following:

• Article by Beverly Fae McMurrey in the The Lexington Leader, about her and her sister’s visit to China, and their father. August 11, 2005
• Copy of the poem "Dear Dad" written by Christina Sharik.
• A printed copy of a program given by Wen Jiang to an American-Chinese relations group in October 2005.
• Printed translation of the new Chinese War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens.
• News article from the Texas A&M University website, documenting the documentary crew’s visit to the campus for filming. January 27, 2006

This collection contains an assortment of articles of family history, correspondence between members of the McMurrey family, and Wen Jiang, a Chinese documentary film-maker, photographs of his funeral in 1944 in Tatangtzu, China and of modern-day China.

The collection is an assortment of letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, articles written by the McMurrey sisters, copies of programs, a war casualty list, a poem, photocopies from a book about Southwest China, and a pin.