Gerald P. White diaries, 1942-1944.

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Gerald P. White diaries, 1942-1944.

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Diaries, with typed transcripts, covering White's World War II service with the U.S. Marine Corps at several training camps and in the Samoan Islands, Australia, and New Guinea. He gives details on military training, army life, battles, hospitals, civilian life in Australia, and observations on the conduct of the war and on officers and other personnel.

4 v. and 1 folder.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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White, Gerald Pendergast, 1915-

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...