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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

C. Homer Bast manuscript, undated

 File — Box 23, Folder: 6-8
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 420
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of unpublished typed manuscript entitled “Okinawa War Diary, April 1945, the First Nineteen Days” by the author. This work gives a detailed account of the battle.

Dates: undated

Richard E. Bennik reminiscence, 1942

 File — Box 23, Folder: 17
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 431
Scope and Contents

Holograph reminiscence of the landing of Marines on Gavutu and Tanambogo Islands in August 1942. Describes the logistics, the attack on the Japanese entrenched in caves, the aerial attacks, injuries and chaos of war. Two maps of Guadalcanal and Tulagi Islands in the Solomons.

Dates: 1942