Lyn Crost papers, 1937-1996.

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Lyn Crost papers, 1937-1996.

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Papers, 1937-1996, of Lyn Crost relating primarily to her experiences as a war correspondent covering the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe during World War II, and materials she used in writing Honor by Fire. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, draft literary manuscripts, and scrapbooks of news articles written by Lyn Crost as a reporter for the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Also includes incomplete runs of the serials Go for Broke and the Puka Puka Parade, 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.

6.5 linear ft. (6 records center boxes) (1 oversize box)

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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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 ...

United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd

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United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th

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