Oral history interview with Jack Brown, 1988 April 23.

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Oral history interview with Jack Brown, 1988 April 23.

Interview with Jack Brown, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at the Marine Barracks between Hickam Field and the Pearl Harbor Naval Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

27 leaves ; 29 cm.

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North Texas State University. Oral History Collection.

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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Marine Corps) Oral History Project.

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Marcello, Ronald E.

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Brown, Jack, 1917-

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United States. Marine Corps

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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...