Camp Pendleton (Calif.)

Irvin Baker manuscript

Collection — Box Single Folder Collections - 2006 Box 1 (06.0001-06.0084), Folder: 06.0027 - Folder 1

Identifier: 06.0027

Scope and Contents

1st Lieutenant Irvin Baker's unpublished manuscript describes his experiences as a platoon leader with the 4th Marine Division and 10th Amtrac Battalion of the United States Marine Corps. He led his platoon through the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Dates: Created: 1942-1945; Other: Date acquired: 03/09/2006

Found in: FSU Special Collections & Archives / Irvin Baker manuscript

Frederick W. Ritter collection

Collection

Identifier: 12.0040

Scope and Contents Frederick W. Ritter served in the Marine Corps as an engineer officer during World War II. He specifically served as a Vought F4U Corsair engineer. He trained at Parris Island, Jacksonville Naval Base, and attended Officer training at Quantico. He met his wife when he joined a church choir in Jacksonville, corresponding with her throughout the war. During the battle of Okinawa, he oversaw the maintenance of the Corvairs that protected the Navy from Kamikaze attacks. The collection includes Ritter's military documents, official paperwork, various letters, photographs, pins and badges, as well as magazines, articles, programs, and photographs from reunions and other postwar events related...

Dates: Created: 1942-2007; Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 07/24/0012

Found in: FSU Special Collections & Archives / Frederick W. Ritter collection

Mildred Shearer papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 02-01.0535

Scope and Contents This collection contains personal papers including letters, notes, sketches, newspaper articles, and a radio interview of Mildred Shearer about her work with the United Service Organization (USO) sketching servicemen. Almost 600 photostatic copies and a few original portraits are included as well. The letters are mainly thank you notes in which servicemen and family members of servicemen commend her for her sketches. However, there are a few personal letters from friends and in one case, an entire collection of correspondence with one man in the Marines named Lieutenant Ralph Hunter Bennett. Her letters from Bennett are romantic in nature, unfortunately, they are abruptly cut...

Dates: Created: 1944-1953; Other: Date acquired: 09/26/2001

Found in: FSU Special Collections & Archives / Mildred Shearer papers

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Irvin Baker manuscript

Frederick W. Ritter collection

Mildred Shearer papers

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