Basic training in Rhode Island at the Naval Education and Training Center, documents, including correspondence; military papers; personal correspondence.

Military papers including reassignment documents, commendations, etc.

Military papers including reassignment documents, commendations, etc.

Military papers including reassignment documents, commendations, correspondence, etc.

Newspaper articles and letters of appreciation. Most items are from Benson's assignment at United States Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan.

Items relating to the military, including recruitment booklets, pamphlets from military programs, and other items.

Poems/Songs in Japanese, Sasebo Soundings of Sasebo, Japan newspaper in English, clippings from the Martinez News Gazette of Martinez, California, and other military papers.

Items relating to the military, including recruitment booklets, pamphlets from military programs, and other items.

Items relating to the military, including recruitment booklets, pamphlets from military programs, and other items.

High school commencement invitation, 1969, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Class Day invitation, and final UNCG academic transcript.