Box AR00044

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This folder contains six chapters, totaling 92 pages of scanned content from Robert Sherrod's book "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II." The chapters are titled as follows: 1. The Beginning, 2. Between Wars 3. Wake Island’s Sixteen Days, 4. Midway, 5. Guadalcanal: Plans and Preparations, 6. Operation Shoestring.

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This folder contains six chapters, totaling 99 pages of scanned content from Robert Sherrod's book "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II." The chapters are titled as follows: 7. Crisis in October, 8. Guadalcanal Secured, 9. South Pacific Interlude, 10. The Central Solomons, 11. Enter the Night Fighters, 12. Bougainville.

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This folder contains seven chapters, totaling 96 pages of scanned content from Robert Sherrod's book "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II." The chapters are titled as follows: 13. Rabaul Strangled, 14. Northwest from Samoa, 15. The Gilberts and Marshalls, 16. The Doldrums of 1944 – I, 17. The Doldrums of 1944 – II, 18. Return to the Philippines, 19. Corsairs on Leyte

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This folder contains six chapters, totaling 78 pages of scanned content from Robert Sherrod's book "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II." The chapters are titled as follows: 20. Dive Bombers on Luzon, 21. In the Southern Philippines, 22. Marines on Carriers, 23. Iwo Jima, 24. The CV Mission Completed, 25. Okinawa Invaded.

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This folder contains three chapters and nine appendixes, totaling 117 pages of scanned content from Robert Sherrod's book "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II." The chapters are titled as follows: 26. Slugging It Out, 27. Okinawa Secured, 28. One War Is Won.

Scope and Contents This folder contains photographs, illustrations, a fictional story, and official government documents. The photographs include images of Lawrence Schain in uniform, Schain with his family members in uniform, and photographs taken during his military service in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre. The illustration in this folder includes an image of a Red Cross tent. The official government documents included feature Schain’s US Marine Corps identification card, an inspection report on Schain, a...

Abstract

The Lawrence H. W. Schain Papers contain two scrapbooks created by Schain during his military service, photographs, newspaper clippings, documents, and bound books. This collection also contains black-and-white scans of Robert Sherrod's book "Marine Corps Aviation in World War II". Schain collected these materials during his service with the United States Marine Corps in World War II and the Korean War.

Scope and Contents Lawrence Schain's scrapbook documenting his World War II service. Materials included within feature his Navy Aviation Radioman course completion, military discharge, and photos of his time in uniform. It includes personal mementos like birthday photos, family pictures, and an engagement announcement for Reta Lee Coonin and Samuel Schain. There are also newspaper clippings about military events, including casualties and a flood in Jacksonville, along with vivid war photographs from the...

Scope and Contents This folder contains loose photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents removed from Lawrence H. W. Schain's scrapbook with a note identifying the materials’ original locations. The photographs in this folder feature imagery from the Japanese surrendering to Allied forces, naval ships, Japanese fortifications, and US soldiers in the middle of combat in the Asiatic-Pacific theatre. The newspaper clippings in this folder feature brief, in-depth looks at the different Schain family members...

Scope and Contents This folder contains a photo album containing 25 photographs and newspaper clippings collected by Lawrence Schain. The photos feature images of the Iwo Jima flag raising, Japan’s surrender aboard the USS Missouri, a B-25 Mitchell, the USS Cape Esperance, and soldiers preparing for and in the middle of battle. They also feature photos of a crashed Japanese airplane, the cloud from the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and a political cartoon on veteran affairs. Personal momentos, like a photo...