Inventory of the David Monroe Shoup papers
1904 | Born, Battle Ground, Indiana |
1926 | Graduate of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana |
1926 July 20 | Commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps |
1926-1941 | Various postings within the Marine Corps, including an atypical post with the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933-1934; promoted through ranks to Major |
1942 | Arrived in New Zealand; served as G-3, Operations and Training Officer of the 2nd Marine Division |
1943 | Promoted to Colonel, placed in command of the 2nd Marines, the spearhead of the assault on Tarawa; earned the Medal of Honor and a Purple Heart |
1944 | Served as Chief of Staff, 2nd Marine Division |
1944-1947 | Returned to the U.S.; served as Logistics Officer, Division of Plans and Policies, Headquarters Marine Corps |
1947 | Served as Commanding Officer, Service Command, Fleet Marine Force (FMF), Pacific |
1949 | Served as Division Chief of Staff, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California |
1950-1952 | Commanding Officer of the Basic School, Quantico, Virginia |
1953-1955 | Served as Fiscal Director of the Marine Corps |
1956-1957 | Promoted to Major General, served as Inspector General for Recruit Training |
1957-1958 | Served as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California, and 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa |
1959 | Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina |
1959 August 12 | Nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps |
1960-1963 | Served as 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps; promoted to four-star general rank; served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
1963 | Retired to Arlington, Virginia; became an outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam |
1983 | Died; buried in Arlington National Cemetery |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Biographical file 1934, 1943
Journal/notebook circa 1927, undated
Citations, certificates, and awards 1926-1944
Honors and awards 1943-1970
Awards, oversize 1928-1961
Patent no. 2,100,982, a device for blacking sights of weapons 1937
Receipts, correspondence, and photographs 1951-1956
Invitations and menus 1933-1960
1 1904-1961 1904-1961
2 1944-1968 1944-1968
3 1958-1961
4 1959-1964
1944-1952
1956-1957 June
1957 July-1963
1936, 1943
1949-1955
Files 1-5 1959-1962
1967-1969
1969
General speeches
1951
Depauw University 25th anniversary, building dedication, speech and photograph 1951
Notes 1955
1960 January 4
circa 1965
1967-1968
Vietnam testimony 1967-1968
1968
1969
1969-1971
Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1971 May 25
circa 1972
Quotations undated
Undated
Military Commissions 1927-1959
Call sign notebook undated
Quotes undated
Correspondence, including clippings 1943-1944
Basic School documents 1953-1956
Marine Corps Fiscal Division notes and budget manual 1953
Marine Corps fiscal estimates 1904-1907
Marine Corps Fiscal Division 1953
Marine training report 1956
Formations and supplies notes, oversize undated
Numbered 1-30, 1960 January-August
Numbered 1-25 1960 October - 1961 December
Numbered 26-33 1960 October - 1961 December
Numbered 1-48 1961 December - 1963 December
Alphabetical correspondence 1959-1963
A-H
H-M
M-S
S-Z
President of the United States correspondence 1961-1963
Presidential inauguration materials 1961
Press conferences, favorable 1961-1962
Press conferences, unfavorable 1961-1962
Press coverage 1962
Remarks 1961-1963
Utterances, notes, and miscellany, including notes on becoming the Commandant of the Marine Corps 1959-1963
Charleston News and Courier editorial 1962
Karou Omine visit 1963
Chart folio, flight schedule to Japan, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office 1963 September-October
Far East tour documents and photographs 1963
Visit to the Royal Thai Marine Corps circa 1963
City of Los Angeles, oversize certificate in honor of General Shoup Day 1963 August 20
"Military Leadership and McNamara," circa 1968
"Let's Dare Think About Lasting World Peace," 1969
"The New American Militarism," The Atlantic 1969
"New American Militarism," reprinted, Businessmen's Educational Fund, New York 1970
"The China Expedition," undated
Small notebook/military diary 1943
Tarawa materials 1943
Tarawa Atoll charts 1943
Tarawa Atoll charts (continued)
Photograph book captured at Tarawa 1943
Tarawa Quartermaster's joke 1943
Camp Tarawa aerial photograph, oversize circa 1943
Tarawa landing photograph, oversize, mounted 1943
Christening of the USS Tarawa by Zola Shoup 1944-1946
"The Tarawa Campaign," an address by Col. Robert R. McCormick 1946
"The Battle for Tarawa," Capt. James R. Stockman, USMC Historical Section 1947
"Some of My Thoughts on Tarawa," David Shoup circa 1954
Tarawa articles circa 1954-1957
"The Bloody Epic that Was Tarawa," New York Times Magazine 1958 November 16
Amphibious Warfare Sea Power Symposium, Tarawa photographic reprints 1960
Tarawa articles 1962
"Tarawa, My Last Battle," Kiyoshi Ota with Keith S. Williams 1964
Tarawa materials 1968
Uncommon Valor pamphlet, including Tarawa photograph undated
Hawaii circa 1942
1942 July
Battle of Tarawa and after 1943
1943
Shoup 1943-1944
War scenes, possibly Tarawa circa 1943-1944
War scenes 1944 August
War scenes circa 1944
Official photographs circa 1944
Official photographs of officers 1945
War publicity photos 1945
Ceremonies: Medal of Honor, Promotion, and CMC 1945-1959
Commissioning of the USS Tarawa 1945-1946
Bikini Atoll atomic test 1946
1947 January
1948
Basic School, Quantico, Virginia circa 1951
9th JCOC, Marine Corps Schools 1951
Portraits and negatives 1955
2nd Division Sword Monument speech 1955
Parris Island, South Carolina 1956 December
1957 January, July, and August
1957 September
1957 November
First Division miscellany 1957
Congressional Medal of Honor Society 1957
1957-1959
Camp Hansen Typhoon, Okinawa 1958 January
1958 April
1958 May, June, and July
1958 October
1958 November
1958 December
Taipei, General Shu and General Shoup 1958
DePauw University 1958
First Marine Division History 1958
First Marine Aircraft Wing 1958
Quarters, Okinawa 1958-1959
Cloth of Okinawa circa 1958-1959
1959 March
All-Marine Boxing Champion 1959
Shoup, life story for Commandant ceremony 1959
Parris Island, South Carolina 1959
Covington, Indiana Veteran's Day celebration honoring General Shoup 1960
Naval Academy visit 1960
General Franke, Secretary of the Navy, signed 1960
Taiwan Marine inspection slides 1961
Salute to Admiral Arleigh Burke 1961
Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) 1961
Visits 1961-1963
Visits, oversize 1961-1963
Cabinet/Staff, oversize 1961-1963
Signed Cabinet/Staff, oversize 1961-1963
Naval Academy visit 1962
Fort Still, Indiana visit 1962
Commandant of the Marine Corps visit to JUSMAG Bankok 1962
President Kennedy and Shoup 1963
Distinguished Service Medal, with President Johnson 1964
Johnson White House 1964
Birthday 1964
Parade photo signed by Herbert Humphrey 1965
1967
1970-1971
Portrait undated
Personal photos undated
Honorary degree undated
Color photographs undated
Third Marine Division undated
Military visits circa 1945-1950
Military training undated
Miscellany undated
Photographic books and albums
Inauguration of John F. Kennedy 1961
Chinese visit circa 1961
Korean visit 1961
Camp Murphy, Philippines visit 1961
U.S. First Fleet Exercise, United States Navy and Marine Corps 1961 November 18
Visit of the President of the United States and Distinguished guests to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet 1962 April 13-14
Marine Corps Base Combat Swimming Team, Twentynine Palms, California 1963
Special issue for the 9th Marine Anniversary Brigade 1963 October
20th Anniversary of the 2nd Marine Division, D.M. Shoup, a lifetime of photographs 1963
Clippings 1944-1968
Clippings 1967-1983
Clippings, oversize 1960-1968
Fountain-Warren Democrat, Attica, Fountain County, Indiana 1907 June 13
The Bulletin, San Francisco 1928 August 18
Congressional Record, Senate, vol. 106, no. 4 1960 January 12
Congressional Record, Senate, vol. 106, no. 44 1960 March 9
Congressional Record, House, vol. 109, no. 47 1963 April 1
Congressional Record, House, vol. 113, no. 25 1967 February 20
Congressional Record, Senate, vol. 115, no. 52 1969 March 26
Newsweek 1971 November 29
"Our President, Herbert Hoover," William J. Marsh (age 11 years), signed by the author 1930
Follow Me! The Story of the Second Marine Division in World War II, by Richard W. Johnston, Random House 1948
Khrushchev in America: Full Texts of the Speeches Given by Khrushchev on His Tour of the United States in September 1959, 1960
The Chien Nhan Dan, People's Strategy 1960
Nation's Business: A Useful Look Ahead Magazine 1962 October
Intercom: Your Guide to the World Affairs Field 1966 July-August
Kaikishu, Japanese maritime self-defense force, Admiral Togo undated
Sons of Indiana: Stories of Indiana's Famous Sons, Indiana Bell undated
How to Save our Republic, by Dr. George W. Crane undated
Japanese Lesson Book undated
Memorabilia 1941, 1954-1962, undated
Inauguration license plates 1954-1962
Remington Arms Company posters undated
World War II signal cylinder: Signal, Ground, Amber Star Cluster M22 1941
Filmstrips undated
Project Crossroads, Able and Baker nuclear tests, 35 mm film
Audiovisual Materials 1959-1972 undated
Admiral Burke's party, seven inch sound reel possibly 1961
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial, "in appreciation of your support in furthering the establishment of a Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, Maryland," before 1959
Khrushchev in America, Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings, CBS Radio Network 1959
The Kings of Pentagonia, Annual Wallow Skit, Military Order of the Carabao 1960 February 6
Sounds of Marine Corps Boot Camp, San Diego, Parris Island, Gold Star Recordings 1960
Tatoo Delft, Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy Marinierskapel der Koninklijke Marine 1960
Parade of the Champions, Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy circa 1960
Marines on Parade, Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy circa 1960
Tradition: Favorite Songs of the United States Marines, U.S. Marine Band and Marine Corps Officer's Basic School Chorus circa 1960
"The President's Own," United States Marine Band, Lieutenant Colonel Albert Schoepper, Director circa 1960
Alliance for Progress, programs and lectures on Latin America and promoting Western Hemisphere understanding, Westinghouse Company 1962
Dedication dinner for the Donald W. Douglas Engineering Product Development Center, Douglans Aircraft Company, Inc. 1962
United States Marine Band, Lt. Col. A.F. Schoepper, Director, conducting, including the General Shoup March circa 1960-1963
The Fort Henry Retreat Ceremonial, recorded live at Fort Henry, Kingston, Ontario, Canada exactly as performed there since 1812 1963
The National Cultural Center presents: The United States Marine Band 1963
The United States Marine Corps Band circa 1960-1963
The Commandant's Own, U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps 1970
America's First Man in Orbit, John H. Glenn in Friendship 7, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. 1972
Semper Fi lacquer disc undated
Japanese record undated
Motion picture film reels 1960-1964, undated
King and Queen of Afghanistan, 16mm film, 500 feet undated
General Shoup interviewed by Von Fremd, CBS Washington, 16mm film circa 1961-1963
Salute to the Navy, 16mm film, 1000 feet undated
A Force in Readiness, 2 copies, 16mm film, 950 feet circa 1961-1963
"Tarawa," The Twentieth Century, CBS Television Film Service Operations, 2 copies, 16mm film, 1892 feet undated
The Story of a Marine, 16mm film, 900 feet circa 1960-1963
Presented to General David S. Shoup, Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1960-1964, from the Old and New Breed, with Second Division and Marine Corps Symbols, 16mm film after 1964