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Adams, Noel (Second World War correspondence)
2014.036.w.r
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Noel Adams Second World War correspondence
Identifier/Call Number: 2014.036.w.r
Identifier/Call Number: 156
Physical Description:
0.05 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1945 November 7 - 16
Abstract: This collection contains correspondence from Noel Adams, USMM to his wife shortly after the Second World War.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: WWII 1
Container: 1
Container: 1
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jeannie Adams
This collection is arranged chronologically.
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Noel Adams Second World War correspondence (2014.036.w.r), Center for American
War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
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collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains three letters from Noel Adams, United States Merchant Marines to his wife [name unknown] shortly
after the Second World War. The correspondence was written aboard the all-purpose cargo ship SS Golden Racer and describes
the islands of Tinian and Iwo Jima, as well as their climates and war torn environments.
Of particular interest is Noel's description of the treatment of Japanese war prisoners and local Korean and Okinawan civilians,
serving as longshoremen.
Also of interest, Noel makes mention of the name Oppenheimer, which is believed to refer to J. Robert Oppenheimer, father
of the Atomic Bomb.
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responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions. For further copyright information, please contact the archivist.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945) -- Conscript labor -- Korea
World War (1939-1945) -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands)
World War (1939-1945) -- Prisoners and prisons
World War (1939-1945) -- Military operations, Naval -- American
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- Campaigns -- Northern Mariana Islands -- Tinian.
Battle of Iwo Jima (Japan : 1945)
Adams, Noel
Adams, Jeannie