The files consist of general correspondence, telegrams, and mimeographed material pertaining to: service and child welfare (1930, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939); naturalization and immigration (naturalization of ex-service men, 1936; Japanese Hood River incident, 1945; McCarran-Walter Act, 1953-1955); flag education in the schools (1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1945); national defense, 1937-1954 (8-point program of the American Legion, neutrality and anti-propaganda, home defense plan, 1942; report of the American Legion mission to Britain in 1941; the Civilian Pilot Training program, 1943; Bricker Amendment, 1954); constitution and by-laws, 1935; military training (C.C.C., 1938; compulsory training, 1940; pre-induction training course for secondary schools, victory corps for students, 1942-1943; universal military training, 1944-1952; questionnaire to congressional candidates on national defense and universal military training, September 14, 1948); minutes of welfare committee, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1949); Camp McCoy as a permanent military site (1939, 1952, 1953); juvenile delinquency (1939, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1946); assistance to veterans; G.I. Bill of Rights, loans, housing, surplus property, pensions, bonus; Hoover Commission report on the Veterans Administration, 1950-1951; and the St. Lawrence Seaway project, 1952-1955.

Also contains in Box 1 a bound volume of papers, 1919, consisting of a history of the American legion in Wisconsin, correspondence pertinent to the organization of the group in Wisconsin, 1919 and 1921, and news clippings.