Inventory of the Cliff Forster papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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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
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2013.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Cliff Forster papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Biographical Note
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.
Related Collection
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
box 1, folder 2
Miscellaneous letters and clippings
1953-2008
box 1, folder 3
Homma sentence & execution
1946
box 1, folder 6
Skeen interview
1945-1949
box 1, folder 7
Imomata / Fuijko file
1980-1988
box 1, folder 10
Schechter correspondence
1986-1987
box 1, folder 11
Homma project - Correspondence
1987
box 1, folder 12
Eariler revisions - Backups
box 1, folder 13
America in Philippines & pre-Pearl Harbor
box 2, folder 2
Bataan surrender/death march
1942
box 2, folder 3
Corregidor surrender
1942
box 2, folder 5
Liberation - Japan's surrender
1945
box 2, folder 6
Homma trial articles
1946-1980
box 2, folder 8
Miscellaneous interviews, meeting notes
1976
box 2, folder 11
Homma - Japanese Military Archives
1987
box 2, folder 12
Skeen correspondence
1987
box 2, folder 13
32 years practicing "people to people diplomacy"
box 2, folder 14
Tsunoda / Tatsumi interviews
1982-1990
box 3, folder 3
Microsoft instructions
1990
box 3, folder 4
Charles Forster MS
2002-2003
box 3, folder 5
Mt. Lassen honeymoon trip
1909
box 3, folder 7
Internment claims
1941-2002
box 3, folder 8
US High Commissioner Report
1941-1942
box 3, folder 9
WGBH - Carlson / Jean Production
1997-1998
box 4, folder 1
World War I articles
1970-1980
box 4, folder 2
War-related articles
1993-1999
box 4, folder 3
WGBH Homma project
1987-1997
box 4, folder 4
Sayre / Commonwealth
1936-1941
box 4, folder 5
Miscellaneous notes and revisions
box 4, folder 6
Preparations for invasion
1953
box 4, folder 9
Invasion - Fall of Manila
box 4, folder 10
Manila occupation / Santo Tomas
1995
box 4, folder 12
Guardians of Empire : The US Army & the Pacific
1902-1940
box 5, folder 1
Trial of General Masaharu Homma by the US Military Commission
1946
box 5, folder 2
Research contacts
1980-1989
