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Title: Cliff Forster papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-2008
Collection Number: 2013C27
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(1.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Interview transcripts, memoirs, other writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs relating to internment of
American civilians in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II, the war crime trial and execution of Japanese
General Masaharu Homma, and the American diplomatic service.
Creator:
Forster, Cliff, 1924-2006
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2013.
[Identification of item], Cliff Forster papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Clifton Forster (1923-2006), was a graduate of Stanford University, was a career diplomat who grew up in the Philippines as
the son of an American Red Cross employee. Following the Japanese invasion of Manila in December 1941, Forster was interned
as an American civilian internee, at Los Baños Internment Camp, Philippines, for five months. Through this father's Red Cross
connections, Forster secured repatriation aboard the Gripsholm in 1942, and later worked for Naval Intelligence before joining
the Foreign Service.
Scope and Content of Collection
Interview transcripts, memoirs, other writings, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to internment of
American civilians in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II, the war crime trial and execution of Japanese
General Masaharu Homma, and the American diplomatic service.
Encounters: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers, Nancy Keeny Forster, Wind Shadow Press, 2009
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Concentration camps -- Philippines
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
War crime trials -- Japan
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
Homma, Masaharu, 1887-1946
Los Baños Internment Camp
United States. Department of State