Lucy Herndon Crockett Papers, c.1940-1976, n.d.

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Lucy Herndon Crockett Papers, c.1940-1976, n.d.

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The collection contains 4 typescripts and 1 unpublished manuscript by Lucy Herndon Crockett, VA author. In addition, there are personal notes, newspaper clippings, land survey and correspondence.

0.9 cu. ft.; 2 boxes; 1 folder

eng,

Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Crockett, Lucy Herndon, 1914-

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Lucy Herndon Crockett (born 4 April 1914 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a Red Cross worker in the Pacific during World War II. She travelled as a speech writer and secretary for the chairman of the American Red Cross. An author of nine books, illustrator and designer, she wrote the 1954 book The Magnificent Bastards about her experiences with the U.S. Marine Corps (the book was later made into a film) and Popcorn on the Ginza about her time in occupied Japan. Later in her life, she lived ...