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Tag: U.S. Marine CorpsThe Marines and Japanese Souvenirs on Guadalcanal August-October 1942Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher. On the morning of August 7, 1942, the Marines landed on Guadalcanal, relatively near an airfield that the Japanese had begun constructing, and the relatively small number of Japanese on the island melted into the jungle. The following day the Marines began collecting Japanese souvenirs near the airfield. [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on December 10, 2012, under Outside NARA. Skateboarding into CombatMarines skateboarding into combat… sounds like something out of a Back to the Future sequel, right? Well, as a matter of fact, the U.S. military experimented with using skateboards in combat situations. In the March 1999 exercises known as Urban Warrior ’99, the military experimented with the potential use of skateboards to detect trip wires [...] Posted by Jason Clingerman on August 17, 2012, under Archives II, Military Records. Music at the Archives – John Philip SousaToday’s guest blogger is Trevor Plante, a supervisory archivist at Archives I. Following up on two recent blog posts from our office by Juliette Arai and Mark Mollan I thought it would be a great opportunity to blog about one of my favorite Marine Corps documents that I often show Marines when we have them here for [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on July 8, 2011, under Archives I, Military Records, Reference. Navy / Maritime Records at Archives I“What records do you have here?” is a common question we are asked everyday at Archives I. This post — Part 2 of a 3-part series — provides a brief description of the Navy/maritime records one can find at our facility in Washington, DC. Part 1, Army [records at AI], was posted earlier, while Part 3, [...] Posted by Juliette Arai on March 30, 2011, under Archives I, Military Records, Reference, Researchers. |
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