Calvin Dunbar Collection 1943-2000

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Calvin Dunbar Collection 1943-2000

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Papers contain a brief history of Calvin Dunbar’s military assignments and activities as a Marine. Also included are prisoners of war and surrender documents including; “Preliminary POW Interrogation Report”, and “The Surrender of Major Sato”. Several newspaper articles document Mr. Dunbar returning a sword he held since the end of World War II to its rightful owner, a Japanese doctor, Mitsuru Yazu. Also included is a 4 hour and 30 minute video of Mr. Dunbar’s experiences as a Japanese Language specialist during the war. Mr. Dunbar is a graduate from the Japanese Language School at Camp Elliott in San Diego, California.

5 Linear Feet, 1 Video

eng,

University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Archives Dept.

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Dunbar, Calvin, 1924-

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Calvin Dunbar was born in Pomona, California on December 16, 1924. He entered the United States Marine Corps in Los Angeles in June 1943 and was stationed at San Diego in Platoon 559, MCRD, from July until October of that same year. Mr. Dunbar graduated from the Japanese Language School at Camp Elliott at San Diego in May 1944. After the war, Calvin Dunbar married Janice Horlick Romney in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 1954, and they later had two children: Elizabeth Dustin (Dusty), and Norman Romney...

United States. Navy. Japanese Language School

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