Lyn Crost papers Crost (Lyn) papers 1937-1996

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Lyn Crost papers Crost (Lyn) papers 1937-1996

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The Lyn Crost papers relate primarily to her experiences as a war correspondent covering the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe during World War II, and materials she used in writing . The collection contains correspondence, photographs, draft literary manuscripts, and scrapbooks of news articles written by Lyn Crost as a reporter for the . Also includes incomplete runs of the serials and the , videocassettes of various movies and documentaries about the Nisei, and artifacts that include her World War II theater campaign ribbon and her war correspondent's hat. Honor by fire Honolulu Star Bulletin Go for Broke Puka Puka Parade

6.5 Linear feet

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John Hay Library, Special Collections

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United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th

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United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd

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Crost, Lyn

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Lyn Crost Stern wss born Eleanor Elizabeth Crost on 19 Sept. 1915. She graduated from Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, in 1938. Following graduation she became a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. In 1944 and 1945, she served as a war correspondent in Europe, filing stories about Hawaiian, mostly Japanese-American, soldiers. In 1994, she published Honor by Fire, a history of Japanese-American soldiers in World War II. From the description of Lyn Crost ...