Box 1

Dispatches (Stories for local newspapers) re: Activities in South Pacific, 1943-1945

Copies of Stories Mailed - Dispatches 1-6

Dispatch 1 [7-14-43]
- letter to Brigadier General Robert L. Denig, Director, Division of Public Relations, Headquarters United States Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. re: safe arrival
- letter to Captain David E. Nopper, Division of Public Relations, Headquarters United States Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.
- article re: First Lieutenant Glenn Loeffel, USMC, United States Marine Air Base, El Toro, California
- article re: Sergeant Lewis Phillips Macis ("Deadeye"), United States Marine Air Base, El Toro, California
- article re: Sergeant L. G. Etheridge, United States Marine Air Base, El Toro, California
- submission for "Life in These United States," feature in Reader's Digest magazine [4-14-43]

Dispatch 2 [7-21-43]
- letter to Brigadier General Denig
- Stories 1-12
1) "Reported AWOL Since March 6, Marine Private Doing OK in South Pacific"
2) "Three Georgia Marine Sergeants Take Home Politics in South Pacific"
3) "Dell, Arkansas Marine Awarded Purple Heart"
4) Gunnery Sergeant Bushlow, Alphonse
5) "San Fernando, California Marine Awarded Purple Heart"
6) "North Vernon, Indiana Marine Awarded Purple Heart"
7) "Chicago Marine is Awarded Purple Heart"
8) "Los Angeles Marine is Awarded Purple Heart"
9) "Texas Marine is Awarded Purple Heart"
10) "Des Plaines, Illinois Marine is Awarded Purple Heart"
11) "Mound, Minnesota Marine Wins Purple Heart"
12) "Fort Cobb, Oklahoma Marine is Awarded Purple Heart"

Dispatch 3 [7-22-43]
- letter to Brigadier General Denig
- Stories 13-19
13) "Navy Corpsman with Marines Awarded Purple Heart"
14) "Sheep Ranch, California Pharmacist Mate Wins Purple Heart"
15) "Illmo, Missouri Navy Corpsman Awarded Silver Star and Purple Heart"
16) "Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth W. Benner, USMC, Awarded Purple Heart"
17) "Lieutenant Colonel Samuel G. Taxis, USMC, Awarded Purple Heart"
18) "Major Andre D. Gomez, USMC, is Awarded the Purple Heart"
19) "American Red Cross Girls Make South Pacific Marines Forget Home"

Dispatch 4 [7-30-43]
- letter to Brigadier General Denig
- Stories 20 and 21
20) Wedding of Gunnery Sergeant James W. Cooper, USMC, to Mrs. Miriam Parsons of London, England
21) "Myers Brothers with Marines Want to Get Back to 'Mom's Chow'" (Note: This story was requested by the Horton Headlight, Horton, Kansas.)

Dispatch 5 [8-3-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 22-27
22) "Iowa Marine Awarded Purple Heart in South Pacific"
23) "Chicago Marine Awarded Purple Heart in South Pacific"
24) "Hamtrach, Michigan Marine Gets Purple Heart in South Pacific"
25) "Edgerton, Wisconsin Marine Wins Purple Heart in South Pacific"
26) "Norborn, Missouri Marine Gets Purple Heart in South Pacific"
27) USMC Privates Doyle L. Collins, Jr. and Robert James Beaver ordered to make french apple pie.

Dispatch 6 [8-16-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 28-32 28) Marriage of Platoon Sergeant Grady H. Lightfoot, USMC, to Miss Gwendoline Joyce Taylford
29) PFC Jesse W. Burbidge, former hairdresser, cuts hair of fellow Marines
30) Keeping records, service record books, etc.
31) Marriage of Corporal Martin S. Hogue, USMC, to Miss Gillian Gooder
32) Applying for absentee ballots to vote in 1944 election

Copies of Stories Mailed - Dispatches 7-12

Dispatch 7 [8-20-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 33-75 (Note: These stories are all about USMC promotions.)
33) Private Ronald K. Angerer - PFC
34) Private Robert James Beaver - PFC
35) Private John Conway Brown - PFC
36) Private Doyle Leroy Collins, Jr. - PFC
37) Private William Harold Doss - PFC
38) PFC Robert Harley Bedford, Jr. - Corporal
39) PFC Ralph Lee Darnell - Corporal
40) Private James Thomas Adler - PFC
41) Private Harley Dean Baker - PFC
42) Private Ralph "D" Baum - PFC
43) Private Stanley Richard Bogdan - PFC
44) Private Paul Marshall Chambers, Jr. - PFC
45) Private Frederick Adron Cieminski - PFC
46) Private Lynn Ridley Craft - PFC
47) Private Alvin Millard Dooley - PFC
48) Private Harold Lee Duff - PFC
49) Private William Marvin Fanning - PFC
50) Private Rutledge Fink - PFC
51) Private Harold Richard Graham - PFC
52) Private James Hyter Gullion - PFC
53) Private Gentry Edgar Hefner - PFC
54) Private Jack William Helms - PFC
55) Private William Richard Henegar - PFC
56) Private Dean Charles Hitchcock - PFC
57) Private Robert James Hughson - PFC
58) Private Byron Archie Iverson - PFC
59) Private Fay LeRoy Jacobson - PFC
60) Private Tore Julius Johnson - PFC
61) Private Floyd Andrew Kearney - PFC
62) Private Charles Berchman - PFC
63) Private Ed Joe Lechman - PFC
64) Private Floyd Lynn Lemley - PFC
65) Private Stanley Lesesky - PFC
66) Private Leo Alvin Leverington - PFC
67) Private James Barnes Lewis, Jr. - PFC
68) Private Arlin Samuel Lingback - PFC
69) Private Felton Harrison Lumpkin - PFC
70) Private Stanley Anthony Luscyzynski - PFC
71) Private Ignacio Maez - PFC
72) Private Dean Edward Mallernee - PFC
73) Private John Mansutto - PFC
74) Private James Edward Maroney - PFC
75) Private Elwood Harrison Mathewson - PFC

Dispatch 8 [9-1-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 76-80
76) Second Lieutenant John Edward Terry (Note: This story was requested by Stamford American, Stamford, Texas.)
77) Frederic A. Seelig commissioned as Second Lieutenant
78) PFC Steve Frank Banyasz
79) PFC Alphonso A. Hochevar (Note: This story was requested by Pueblo Star-Journal, Pueblo, Colorado.)
80) Corporal William Albert McBride and Corporal John Michael LaCause

Dispatch 9 (Note: There was no letter with this dispatch, but dates are given on individual stories.)
- Stories 81-85
81) Marriage of Corporal Frank H. Bain to Miss Dorothy Court Finlayson [9-9-43]
82) Marriage of Private Bernard Duane Enarson to Miss Doreen Watkins [9-9-43]
83) Sergeant Pasquale Guido and Private Harry J. Kieper, Jr.: high school friends reunited [9-9-43]
84) PFCs Arthur and Charles Cadillo - brothers reunited by one's reassignment [9-10-43]
85) Reserves Private P. Ray Martin sent to Officer's School [9-12-43]

Dispatch 10 [10-15-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 86 and 87
86) First Lieutenant Gene A. Musial, playing football
87) Private Albert Ulloa Carlisle, who held 3 Southwest Pacific boxing titles

Dispatch 11 [11-26-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 88-93
88) Bougainville Island Roundup
89) Meeting between uncle and nephew [11-14-43]
90) Conversation between two shovels digging a foxhole [10-14-43]
91) Sergeant Greely P. Smith re-enlists [11-22-43]
92) Dud bomb found by Marines [11-25-43]
93) Maj. Dave W. Stonecliffe hears about birth of his son

Dispatch 12 [12-1-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 94 and 95
94) Heroism displayed by Bougainville medical officer and his team of Navy Corpsmen [11-29-43]
95) "Saki Still" [11-30-43]

Copies of Stories Mailed - Dispatches 13-20

Dispatch 13 [12-12-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 96-101
96) Daniel J. Dominguez promoted to Staff Sergeant
97) Robert L. Eckard promoted to Sergeant
98) Joseph J. Slanski promoted to Corporal
99) Henry J. Welz, Jr. promoted to Sergeant
100) Arthur L. Tumire promoted to Corporal
101) William A. McBride promoted to Sergeant

Dispatch 14 [12-21-43]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 102-105
102) PFC Albert H. Spencer and Sergeant David J. Marendt brave "raging inferno" of bombed gun pit to save the lives of Marines inside [12-17-43]
103) "No Rest for the Weary" - hardships in Marine camp [12-18-43]
104) Missing
105) Richard "K" Angerer and Richard "F" Angerer, cousins with almost same name get each other's mail [12-20-43]

Dispatch 15 [1-9-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 106-111
106) "Jap 77" [12-29-43]
107) "Observation Tower" [12-29-43]
108) "Marine and Dog" [12-29-43]
109) "Fire Control Quiz" [12-29-43]
110) Two Marines reunited after one meeting at party in 3/40 [1-5-44]
111) Utility Squadron [1-7-44]

Dispatch 16 [1-21-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 112-118
112) "Torpedo Bomber Flight" [1-16-44]
113) PFC George Osborn Nagus and PFC William H. Lovelace, Jr. [1-16-44]
114) "John Brown's Guitar" [1-19-44]
115) Barbershop notice - wash head first
116) Marines use large coconuts as footballs
117) "Memorial Service" [1-19-44]
118) "Met Section" [1-19-44]

Dispatch 17 [2-9-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 119-124
119) Corporal Howard Adelbert Mills awarded Silver Star [2-5-44]
120) "Medical Section" [2-5-44]
121) "China Medals" [2-5-44]
122) "Louisiana Marines" [2-7-44]
123) "Georgia Marines" [2-5-44]
124) "Marine Seabee" [2-8-44]

Dispatch 18 [2-11-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 125-131
125) "Dentist" [2-10-44]
126) First Lieutenant Lonice E. Coburn awarded China Medal [2-10-44]
127) PFC Albert H. Spencer receives citation for gallantry [2-11-44]
128) PFC John V. Edwards receives citation for gallantry [2-11-44]
129) PFC Thomas R. Stoddart receives citation for gallantry [2-11-44]
130) Pharmacist Mate Second Class James Daniel Mann awarded letter of citation [2-11-44]
131) Lt. Col. Edward H. Forney receives letter of citation (Note: This story was scratched at the last minute.)

Dispatch 19 [2-22-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 131-136
131) Stepfather and stepson meet for first time [2-12-44]
132) Sergeant Richard M. White awarded Purple Heart [2-22-44]
133) PFC William D. Woods awarded Purple Heart [2-22-44]
134) Corporal Howard Adelbert Mills awarded Purple Heart [2-22-44]
135) Sergeant John H. Farris awarded Purple Heart [2-22-44]
136) Private Clayton E. Hamm awarded Purple Heart [2-22-44]

Dispatch 20 [3-6-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 137-141
137) "Flowers" [3-5-44]
138) "Utah Marines" [3-5-44]
139) Cousins reunited after 2 years [3-5-44]
140) "West Virginia Marines" [3-5-44]
141) Lt. William David Willcox awaits news on birth of his child [3-5-44]

Copies of Stories Mailed - Dispatches 21-29, Stories 165-178

Dispatch 21 [3-25-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 142-145
142) Lt. Col. Edward H. Forney cited by Admiral Halsey [3-25-44]
143) "Betsy" [3-18-44]
144) "Weight Lifting" [3-18-44]
145) PFC Charles W. Caldwell gets 81 letters at once [3-24-44]

Dispatch 22 [3-27-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 146 and 147
146) Marine receives special birthday present - phonograph recording of friend singing "Happy Birthday!" [3-25-44]
147) PFC Russell Robert Buchanan saves Navy Seabee from drowning [3-26-44]

Dispatch 23 [4-10-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 148-151
148) Mix-up turns Marine's two-day visit into month-long stay [4-3-44]
149) PFC Kenneth H. Johnson [4-6-44]
150) Brothers reunited after 16 months [4-7-44]
151) Marine climbs tree, gets covered in red ants [4-7-44]

Dispatch 24 [4-12-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 152 and 153
152) Chief Pharmacist Mate winds up doctoring natives instead of Marines [4-10-44]
153) Special Weapons Group commended [4-11-44]

Dispatch 25 [4-19-44]
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 154-156
154) "No Stamps" [4-13-44]
155) Army Staff Sergeant Thomas W. Abrams, classmate of Coleman's from Newberry College [4-19-44]
156) Staff Sergeant Charles A. Lambert, Jr. [4-19-44]

Dispatch 26 [4-24-44] - letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 157-160
157) Gun crew buys chickens from natives, cooks stew [4-20-44]
158) Corporal Charles E. Hambaugh [4-20-44]
159) Corporal Earl R. Morgan [4-24-44] (Note: This story was requested by News-Dispatch, Michigan City, Indiana.)
160) Staff Sergeant William T. Phillips, cook for sick bay [4-24-44]

Dispatch 27 [4-30-44] - letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Stories 161 and 162
161) Schoolmates reunited [4-29-44]
162) Three St. Petersburg, Florida Marines reunited [4-28-44]

Dispatch 28
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Story 163
163) "Chicago Bandsmen" [5-3-44]

Dispatch 29
- letter to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC
- Story 164
164) "Franklin, Ohio Marines" [5-10-44]

Stories without Dispatch letters attached
- Stories 165-178
165) "Size 13 Feet" [5-28-44]
166) "Three R's" [5-28-44]
167) Missing
168) When the movie showing is listed as "Guadacanal Diary," it means they don't know what movie it is [6-11-44]
169) Pacific Marines hear news of invasion - "fall of Rome" [6-12-44]
170) Sergeant Edward W. Hays [6-12-44]
171) Corporal Melvin L. Betteiger and PFC Wallace R. Deering [6-12-44]
172) PFC Brent R. Lewis [6-12-44]
173) PFC Charles L. McCallister, Jr. [6-12-44]
174) PFC Cornelius F. Sullivan [6-12-44]
175) "Georgia Sailors" [6-13-44]
176) PFC Harry Guralchuk [6-13-44]
177) "Station Korn" [6-14-44]
178) "Morra" [6-14-44]

Copies of Stories Mailed - Stories 179-217
179) Sergeant Dan C. Searcy [7-22-44]
180) Platoon Sergeant William C. Croom and Sergeant Arthur J. Allen [7-22-44]
181) Marine Edward L. Paradysz [7-22-44]
182) Master Tech Sergeant Louis F. Shook [7-22-44]
183) Invasion of Guam [7-22-44]
184) Marine Willard Lawson and Marine Raymond Gray [7-24-44]
185) PFC Mike Balega [7-24-44]
186) Corporal Hyman Bomberg [7-25-44]
187) Warrant Officer Stanley I. "S" Kinel [7-25-44]
188) First Lieutenant Edward T. Buckley, Reef Party [7-25-44]
189) "Letter Found"⁽¹⁾ [7-27-44]
190) "Japanese Swords" [7-30-44]
191) Staff Sergeant Lee Allen Pierce [7-30-44]
192) "Radio Message" [7-31-44]
193) "Water Purification" [8-2-44]
194) Sergeant John T. Hickman [8-2-44]
195) Corporal Robert C. Mehl [8-8-44]
196) "Shorts"⁽²⁾ [8-8-44]
197) "Georgia Marines" [8-15-44]
198) "PFC Orders Colonel" [8-17-44]
199) "Cooks" [8-17-44]
200) "Two to One" [8-18-44]
201) Pharmacist Mate Third Class Joseph Antal, Jr. [8-18-44]
202) Pharmacist Mate Second Class Irving S. "Don" Afriat [8-19-44]
203) Pharmacist Mate Second Class Reuben Goldman [8-19-44]
204) Sergeant Dana C. MacClennen [8-21-44]
205) PFC George F. Fehland [8-26-44]
206) PFC Cecil B. Ellis and Corp. Donald F. Erickson [8-22-44]
207) "Pal" [8-22-44]
208) "Sergeant Allan F. Gray [8-28-44]
209) Corporal Irving Kalmanowitz [8-28-44]
210) PFC Charles E. Moore [8-28-44]
211) PFC Alfred J. Hague [8-28-44]
212) PFC Carmel F. Littlejohn [8-28-44]
213) PFC Roger E. Viens [8-29-44]
214) PFC Edgar H. Williams [8-24-44]
215) PFC Henry B. Pratt [8-30-44]
216) PFC Michael A. Berdar [8-30-44]
217) PFC Paul E. Palmer [8-30-44]

Copies of Stories Mailed - Stories 218-289
218) "Uncle Sam Song" [9-4-44]
219) Captain George A. Huver [9-4-44]
220) Sergeant Jack A. Gerveas [9-6-44]
221) Sergeant John P. Ulrich [9-6-44]
222) Sergeant Charles E. Baker [9-6-44]
223) PFC LeRoy A. Jacobsen [9-6-44]
224) PFC Jack V. Hayes, Jr. [9-6-44]
225) Sergeant Major William J. Flanigan [9-8-44]
226) Sergeant Paul D. Garrett and PFC Marion A. Garrett [9-10-44]
227) Staff Sergeant Joel M. Taylor and Marine Jack A. Taylor [9-10-44]
228) "Postman Rings" [9-15-44]
229) Corporal Thomas S. Ahner and Staff Sergeant Chris E. Ahner [9-15-44]
230) "Albany, New York Marines" [9-15-44]
231) Seabee Seaman Second Class Seymour L. Davidson [9-18-44]
232) Corporal M. Lewis Kendoll and Staff Sergeant Lloyd R. Kendoll [9-18-44]
233) Staff Sergeant Harold Isaac [9-18-44]
234) First Lieutenant Tom Preston [9-18-44]
235) Corporal Rudy Lubic awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
236) PFC Warren C. Perkins, Jr. awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
237) PFC Benjamin L. Stevenson, Jr. awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
238) Corporal Albert R. Webster, Jr. awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
239) PFC Phillip H. Hureau, Jr. awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
240) Corporal Cyril L. Phillips awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
241) PFC John H. McGaha awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
242) Corporal George Bado awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
243) Corporal James A. Jay awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
244) PFC Everett J. Thumann awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
245) Corporal James H. Walter awarded Purple Heart [10-10-44]
246) Corporal Thomas Edwin Ackerman [10-28-44]
247) PFC Cloyd Sensenig [10-28-44]
248) PFC Ray Magolan [10-28-44]
249) PFC David A. Redman [10-30-44]
250) PFC Richard Henry Cummings [10-30-44]
251) "Rats" [10-31-44]
252) PFC Francis E. Jackson [10-31-44]
253) PFC Alfred A. Garofalo [11-1-44]
254) PFC Boyce T. Brogdon [11-1-44]
255) Platoon Sergeant Joseph A. Lakonis, Jr. [11-1-44]
256) Corporal John Lorens Clouse [11-2-44]
257) Platoon Sergeant Milton T. Sharpe [11-2-44]
258) Sergeant Ellis U. Smith [11-3-44]
259) PFC Paul C. Boudreaux [11-3-44]
260) PFC Joseph L. Kambic [11-6-44]
261) Pharmacist Mate First Class John H. Bridges and Pharmacist Mate First Class William W. Perry [11-6-44]
262) PFC Gregg and PFC Winfield H. Wilcox [11-7-44]
263) PFC William Lafferty and PFC James A. Pepperdine [11-8-44]
264) PFC Howard J. Schuemaker [11-10-44]
265) PFC Jack Sherburne [11-10-44]
266) Gunner's Mate Second Class Henry T. White [11-18-44]
267) "Farming" [11-18-44]
268) Sergeant Adolph Mikelenas [11-20-44]
269) PFC Floyd Swensen [11-28-44]⁽³⁾
270) PFC Wilbur L. Collins [12-19-44]
271) "Sopac Bond Drive" [12-19-44]
272) "Tobacco Chewers" [12-28-44]
273) Bugle Master Second Class James Milton McCoy awarded Purple Heart [12-28-44]
274) Seaman First Class Clarence Henry Branson awarded Purple Heart [12-28-44]
275) Gunner's Mate Second Class Matthew Chester Mraczka awarded Purple Heart [12-28-44]
276) Seaman First Class Lawrence R. Koskovich awarded Purple Heart [12-28-44]
277) Private Charles W. Watell [1-3-45]
278) Chief Specialist (Athletic) Lawrence A. "Red" Cargol [1-9-45]
279) "Louisiana, Mo. Marines" [1-22-45]
280) Colonel Walter A. Wachtler awarded Gold Star [1-20-45]
281) Robert James Cusimo promoted to Corporal [1-22-44]
282) Billy G. Ayers promoted to Corporal [1-22-45]
283) Major Harry O. Buzhardt commended [2-1-45]
284) Major Alber Fontaine Beutliger awarded Legion of Merit Medal [2-1-45]
285) First Lieutenant Edward C. Coontz commended [2-5-45]
286) Corporal John Raleigh Crews [2-12-45]
287) PFC Anton John Fier, Jr. [2-12-45]
288) PFC Donald Eugene Bashaw [2-12-45]
289) Private Louis Apice [2-12-45]

Copies of Stories Mailed - Other
- drafts of three stories
- "Grave Markers," marked Story Number 142 [3-5-44]
- "Memeograph," marked Story Number 144
- untitled - the first line is "This is a story of what a Marine does and is doing when you don't hear about him."
- "Lessons Learned"
- miscellaneous notes for stories
- Navy Department press release of one of Coleman's stories - "Marine in Guam Invasion Carried Two Lovebirds Ashore" [8-3-44]
- clipping of news article by Coleman - "Georgia Boys in Pacific Hoping for Ideal Postwar Life at Home"
- political cartoons {drawn by Coleman?}
- photos

Correspondence

Margaret Mitchell Letters to Leodel Coleman - Master
- letters written by Mitchell to Coleman while Coleman was stationed in the Pacific during World War Two [1942-44]

Leodel Coleman Letters to Margaret Mitchell - Master
- letters written by Coleman to Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh [1943-44]

Correspondence - 1943 (1)
- letters from Jim Coleman [1/5, 8/7]
- Canteen Chatter, newsletter about Hollywood visitors [2/6]
- letter from The Reader's Digest in Spanish [3/24]
- letter from Dorothy F. Koch [3/26]
- letter from Jack Shuster{?} [4/14]
- letters to all the Coleman family [4/26, 4/30]
- Initial Report to Brigadier General Robert L. Denig, Division of Public Relations, USMC, from Leodel Coleman, John R. Hurley, Gordon D. Marston, and Benjamin Wahrman [4/30]
- telegram from Alice R. Coleman [5/2]
- letters to Jim and Mary Dan Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [5/5, 5/16, 7/3, 8/1, 8/6, 8/16, 8/24, 8/29]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [5/10, 6/1]
- letter to Brigadier General Denig from Leodel Coleman and John R. Hurley [5/12]
- letters to Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Coleman, Sr. from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [5/20, 6/17, 6/21, 7/4, undated, 7/14, 8/15, 8/22]
- letters from Ben Wahrman [6/17, 7/19]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [6/26, 7/11]
- letter from Ann Evans [7/2]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [7/13, 7/20, 8/2, 8/13, 8/21, 8/22, 8/30]
- letters from Sergeant James D. Johnson [7/17, 8/14]
- letters to Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Coleman, Sr. [7/30, 8/22]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman [7/30, 8/6, 8/25]
- letter from Bill Bowen [8/1]
- letters to Jim Coleman [8/5, 8/12, 8/22]
- letters to G. C. Coleman, Jr. [8/5, 8/12]
- letter from John R. Hurley [8/10]
- letter from Chris Kaufmann [8/14]
- letter to Bob and Lucy Donaldson [8/14]
- letter to Mary Dan Coleman [8/22]
- letter to Sam [8/23]
- letter from Pearl Barnwell [8/24]
- letter from Marguerite [8/26]
- letter from Bob and Bobby Donaldson [8/29]
- letter to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Majors [8/31]
- letter from Travelers Insurance Company [8/31]

Correspondence - 1943 (2)
- letters to Brooks Grimes [9/1, 9/12, 9/21, 9/23, 10/13, 10/16, 10/18, 10/22]
- letters to G. C. Coleman, Jr. [9/2, 9/23, 10/10]
- letters from Bill Bowen [9/5, 10/17]
- letter to Gordon D. Marston, Ben Wahrman, and John R. Hurley[9/5]⁽⁴⁾
- letters to Jim and Mary Dan Coleman [9/11, 9/15, 9/16, 9/23, 10/10]
- letters from Jim Coleman [9/11, 10/4, 10/18]
- letters to Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Coleman, Sr. [9/13, 9/23, 10/10]
- letter to Travelers Insurance Company [9/13]
- letters to Jim and Mary Dan Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [9/14, 10/1, 10/12]
- letter to Cy Snyder [9/16]
- letter to Bobby Donaldson [9/21]
- letters from Gordon D. Marston [9/21, 10/18]
- letter from Ralph McGill [9/21]
- letter to Honey and Jenny Bowen [9/23]
- letter to Bill Bowen [9/23]
- letter from Major Meigs O. Frost [9/24]
- letter from Captain David E. Nopper [9/27] - letters to Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Coleman, Sr. from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [undated, 10/8, 10/14, 10/18, 10/29]
- letters from John R. Hurley [10/4, 10/30]
- letter from Ben Wahrman [10/17]
- letter from B. L. Smith [10/19]
- letter from Alice R. Coleman [10/20, 10/31]
- letter from Sally Mooney [10/27]

Correspondence - 1943 (3)
- letters from Jim Coleman [11/5, 12/7]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [11/7, 11/15, 11/19, 11/30, 12/11, 12/25]
- letters to Jim Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [11/7, 11/8, 11/17, 12/19, 12/25]
- letter from Cy Snyder [11/9]
- letters to all the Coleman family [11/10, 11/14, 11/23, 12/14, 12/24]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [11/16, 11/25, 12/1, 12/6, 12/15, 12/24, 12/25]
- letter from Mamie Hall Porritt [11/18]
- letter to Bill, Honey, and Jenny Bowen [11/19]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [11/23, 12/3, 12/7, 12/23]
- letter from Bob Donaldson [11/23]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [11/24, undated, 12/10]
- letter from Dr. James C. Kinard [11/25]
- letter from Ben Wahrman [undated]
- letter from John R. Hurley [12/1]
- letter from Sergeant J. D. Johnson [12/2]
- V-Mail to Nancy and Dudley Glass [12/4]
- letters to Jim Coleman and family [12/5, 12/21]
- letter from Meta McTomain{?} [12/6]
- letter from Kraliel Basley{?} [12/6]
- letter from Bill and Billie Shaw [12/9]
- letter from Mrs. Alma Thomson [12/11]
- letter to Mamie Hall Porritt [12/15]
- letter from Statesboro Rotary Club [12/20]
- letter to Gordon D. Marston, Ben Wahrman, and John R. Hurley [12/22]
- letter to Howell and Ruth Sewell [12/28]

Correspondence - 1944 (1)
- Christmas card from Sally Mooney
- letters to Brooks Grimes [1/3, 1/6, 1/7, 1/15, 1/25, 2/3, 2/9, 2/15, 2/21, 2/23]
- letters to G. C. Coleman, Jr. [1/3, 1/18]
- letter to Sergeant Major [1/6]
- letter to Jim Coleman from Frank I. Williams [1/6]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [1/8, undated, 2/27]
- letter to "Little Butch" [1/14]
- letter to Dr. and Mrs. James C. Kinard [1/7]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [1/13, 2/6, 2/22, 2/26, 3/3]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman [1/15, 1/23, 2/16, 3/3]
- letter to Bob and Lucy Donaldson [1/15]
- letter to Hattie [1/15]
- letter to Sam [1/18]
- letter to Sally Mooney [1/22]
- letters from Jim Coleman [1/26, 3/1]
- letter from Dr. Kinard [2/4]
- letters to Jim Coleman [2/9, 2/14, 2/17]
- letter to Ralph McGill [2/9]
- letter from Horace Smith [2/9]
- letter from Lt. Col. A. C. Small, USMC [2/10]
- letter from Sam [2/13]
- letter from Dr. Marvin S. Pittman [2/14]
- letter from Mary Dan and Linda Coleman [2/15]
- letter to Lt. Rice [2/18]
- letter to Mrs. Elizabeth Hardin [undated]
- letter from Mrs. Hardin [2/18]
- letter to Horace Smith [2/23]
- letter to Postmaster, Fourteenth Defense Battalion [2/23]
- letter from Ann Evans [undated]
- letter from Virginia Evans (Mrs. Thomas Evans, Jr.) [3/3]

Correspondence - 1944 (2)
- letter to Zollie Whitehurst, Statesboro Floral Shop [3/3]
- letters to Jim Coleman & family [3/3, 3/21, 3/22, 4/1]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [3/3, 3/21, 3/23, 3/26, 3/31, 4/2, 4/6]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [undated, 3/18, 3/28, 4/4]
- letter from Sally Mooney [3/5]
- letters from Jo Shannon [3/6, 4/8]
- letters from Jim Coleman [3/8, 3/28, 4/6]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [3/9, 3/18, 3/22, 3/23, 3/24, Easter Sunday]
- letters to G. C. Coleman, Jr. [3/9, 3/21, 4/1]
- letters to Phillip Kelly [3/11, 3/22]
- letter from Bob, Lucy, & Bobby Donaldson [3/13]
- letter from Congressman Hugh Peterson [3/14]
- letter from Mamie Hall Porritt [3/17]
- letter from Mrs. A. E. Stewart [3/19]
- letter from Marty [3/20]
- letter from Frank [1/16]
- Christmas card from Minna & Cy Snyder
- Christmas card from Lucy
- letters to Alice R. Coleman [3/21, 4/1]
- letter to Nubby [3/22]
- letter to Virginia & Ann Evans [3/22]
- letter to Kaywoodie Company [3/22]
- letter to Jo Shannon [3/22]
- letter from Flip Kelly [3/24]
- letter to Sally Mooney [3/25]
- letter from "Admiral" [3/25]
- letter to "Friends"⁽⁵⁾ [3/28]
- letter to Joe [3/28]
- letter from Mary Dan & Linda Coleman [3/29]
- Christmas card from Lewis Johnson
- letter to "Your Honor, the Mayor" [4/2]
- letter to Dr. Marvin Pittman [4/2]
- letter to Bobby Donaldson [4/2]
- letter to Lewis Johnson [4/2]
- letter to Bob & Lucy Donaldson [4/2]
- letters to Don [4/6, 4/10]
- letter to Dr. R. J. Kennedy [4/6]
- letter to Marty [4/8]

Correspondence - 1944 (3)
- letter to "Admiral" [4/10]
- letter from Bill D. Williams [4/10]
- letters to Ann Evans [4/11, 5/28]
- letters from Jim Coleman [4/11, 4/17, 5/22, 5/26, 6/3, 6/15, 6/21, 6/23]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [4/12, 4/15, 4/23⁽⁶⁾, 4/25, 5/3, 5/10, 5/12, 5/13, 5/28, 6/11, 6/23]
- letter from Dr. Marvin S. Pittman [4/12]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman [4/13, 5/3, 5/19, 5/18, undated]
- letters to Jim Coleman & family [4/13, 4/24, 5/10, 5/19, 5/13, 5/20, 6/4, 6/6]
- letters to G. C. Coleman, Jr. & Willie [4/13, 4/20, 4/30, 5/10, 5/19]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. & Willie [undated, 4/15, 4/18, 4/24, 5/9, 6/4, 6/14]
- letter from "Admiral" [undated]
- letter to Mamie Hall Porritt [4/18]
- letter to Mrs. A. E. Stewart [4/18]
- letter to Jake [4/18]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [4/18, 4/23, 5/4, 5/15, 6/13, 6/25]
- letter from Steve [4/19]
- letter to Kermit L. Carr [4/19]
- letter from Staff Sergeant J. D. Johnson [4/21]
- letter to Flip Kelly [4/24]
- letter to Pat & Clara Leck [4/25]
- letter from R. J. Kennedy [4/25]
- letter from Bob Donaldson [4/26]
- letter to Mr. Inman Foy & "Miss" Lena Belle Foy [4/30]
- letter to Steve [5/1]
- letters to Jim Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [undated, 6/14]
- letter from B. L. Smith [4/19]
- letter from Steve [5/11]
- letter from Joel C. "Jake" Harris [5/15]
- letter to Ben Wahrman [undated]
- letter from Lena Belle Foy [5/14]
- letter from Congressman Hugh Peterson [5/30]
- letter from "Nubby" [6/3]
- letter to Jim Coleman and family from Alice R. Coleman [undated]

Correspondence - 1944 (4)
- letters from Jim Coleman [7/4, 7/24, 7/31, 8/21]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [7/4, 7/30, undated]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [7/5, 7/14, 7/20, 7/27, 8/11, 8/15, 8/22]
- letter to Jim Coleman and family [7/7]
- letter from PFC Harold G. Hagins [7/14]
- letter from Ben Wahrman [7/17]
- letter from Massie [7/21]
- letter from Mamie Hall Porritt [7/22]
- letter to Brooks, Jim, Skipper, Mother, Peggy [7/28]⁽⁷⁾
- letters to Brooks Grimes [7/31, 8/12, 8/13, 8/20, 8/26]
- letters to rest of Coleman family [8/10, 8/27]
- letter to Captain George E. Morgenstern [8/11]
- letter to Alice R. Coleman [8/12]
- letter to Bobby Donaldson [8/14]
- letter to Mamie Hall Porritt [8/14]
- letter to Massie [8/14]
- memo to Captain Griffin, Quartermaster, Fourteenth Defense Battalion [8/19]
- letter from Captain Arthur C. Wimer [8/21]
- letter from Edna Cain Daniel [8/24]
- letter to Becky [8/27]
- letter to William Schweigert Company [8/28]
- letter from G. & C. Merriman Company [8/28]
- letter from Bill Bowen [8/28]
- letter to Jim Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [undated]

Correspondence - 1944 (5)
- letters to rest of Coleman family [9/1, 9/23, 10/2, 10/28]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [9/1, 9/20, 10/26]
- letter to Sergeant Norma Lindsay [9/3]
- letter to Ben Wahrman and Red Marston [9/3]
- letter to Aunt Lura and Uncle Jim [9/3]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [undated, 9/11, 9/18, 9/23, 10/3, 10/8, 10/14, 10/25]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [9/4, 9/6, 9/18, 9/26, 10/1, 10/28]
- letters to Jim Coleman and family [9/8, 9/12, 9/21, 10/5]
- letter from Nancy Glass [9/10]
- letter to G. C. Coleman, Jr. and Willie [9/11]
- letters from Jim Coleman [9/11, 9/13, 9/24, 9/26, 9/27, 9/28, 10/9, 10/14]
- letter from Marty [9/14, 10/20]
- letters from Willie O. Groover [9/16, 10/18]
- letter to Major Meigs O. Frost [9/18]
- letter to Wallace [9/18]
- letters from Massie [9/19, undated]
- birthday card from Alice R. Coleman
- letter from Red Marston [9/29]
- letter from Major Frost [9/30]
- letter to Bill Bowen [10/2]
- letter from Sergeant Stuart M. Long [10/13]
- letter to Mary Dan and Linda Coleman from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [10/18]
- letter to Marty [10/29]
- letter from Bill Fields [10/30]
- letter to Hy [10/30]

Correspondence - 1944 (6)
- letters to Brooks Grimes [11/1, 11/18, 11/20, 11/26, 11/28, 12/1, 12/3, 12/9, 12/10, 12/16, 12/28]
- letters from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [11/2, 11/6, 11/15, 11/26, 12/19, 12/26]
- letters from Alice R. Coleman [11/2, 11/9, 11/19, 11/22, 11/23, 12/10, 12/20, 12/26]
- letter from Edwin Groover [11/3]
- letter to Jim Coleman and family from Alice R. Coleman [undated]
- letters to Jim Coleman and family from G. C. Coleman, Jr. [11/9, undated, 12/13]
- letter to Alice R. Coleman [11/9]
- letters from Jim Coleman [11/11, 11/14, 11/23, 11/27]
- letter from "Uz"⁽⁸⁾ [11/11]
- letter to Sergeant Stuart Long [11/13]
- letters to rest of Coleman family [11/18, 12/3, 12/23]
- letter to Edwin Groover [11/22]
- letter to Hy [11/22]
- letter to Marty [11/23]
- letter to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Turner [11/28]
- letter to Major Meigs O. Frost [11/30]
- letter to Zollie Whitehurst [12/3]
- letter from Hy [11/22]
- letters from B. L. Smith [12/5, undated]
- letters to Dr. Kennedy [12/5, 12/7]
- letter from Sally Mooney [12/7]
- letter from Lieutenant B{?} Litchfield⁽⁹⁾ [12/8]
- letter to Murray Marder [12/10]
- letter from Zollie Whitehurst [12/11]
- letter to New Yorker⁽¹⁰⁾ [12/21]
- letter to Jim Coleman and family [12/25]
- letter to B. L. Smith [12/27]
- letter to Bobby Donaldson [12/28]
- letter to Ann Evans [12/28]

Correspondence - 1945
- letters to Jim, Mary Dan, Linda, G. C. and Willie Coleman [1/1, 1/17]
- letters to Alice R. Coleman [1/1, 1/17]
- letter from Alice R. Coleman [1/1]
- letter from Dorothy F. Koch [1/4]
- letter from Willie O. Groover [1/4]
- letter from Jim Coleman [1/5]
- letters to Brooks Grimes [1/7, 1/8, 1/10, 1/14, 1/16, 1/19]
- letter to Colonel Bourker [1/8]
- letter to Willie and Edwin Groover [1/16]
- letter to Hoke Brunson family [1/16]

Combat Corps Correspondence
- letters of recommendation from local figures [1-20-43]
- Hinton Booth, attorney, Statesboro
- Judge T. J. Evans, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Superior Courts
- Thad J. Morris, Statesboro Grocery Company
- letter to Commandant from Leodel Coleman, requesting assignment as Combat Correspondent [1-21-43]
- letter from Congressman Hugh Peterson [2-26-43]
- letter to Congressman Peterson from Lt. Col. George T. Van der Hoef [2-28-43]
- letter to Col. Van der Hoef from Ralph McGill [3-1-43]
- Appointment as Sergeant (temporary) (Special), for Public Relations duty [3-3-43]
- Orders to Temporary Duty [3-4-43] - memo to Director, Division of Public Relations, USMC, from Leodel Coleman re: transfer to Fourteenth Defense Battalion [4-10-44]
- poem - "Au Revoir to Captain Tim" [12-25-44]
- memo from Captain Tim. J. Sanders [12-30-44]
- letter from Johnny Popham [5-8-53]
- letter from Col. J. F. Wagner, Jr., USMC [6-7-63]

Georgia Newspaper Friends
- letters from Edna Cain Daniel [undated, 10-20-43, 10-28-43, 11-4-44]
- letter to Ralph McGill [8-22-43]
- letters to Edna Cain Daniel [10-15-43, 8-12-44, 9-7-44, 1-13-45]
- letter from Pearl [11-2-43]
- obituaries for Dudley Glass [12/43]
- letter to Nancy Glass [undated]
- letters to Nancy Glass from Dorothy F. Koch [1-14-44, 4-11-44]
- letter from Nancy Glass [1-19-44]
- letters to Nancy Glass from Edna Cain Daniel [undated]

Beatrice Grimshaw⁽¹¹⁾
- letter to Editor, The Dominion, Wellington, New Zealand [9-11-43]
- letter to Editor, The Sun, Sydney, Australia [9-12-43]
- letter from O. G. Olson, The Sun [10-6-43] - letter from Beatrice Grimshaw [10-3-43]
- letter to Beatrice Grimshaw [4-10-44]

Other Materials

Materials Relating to the Margaret Mitchell Letters
- newspaper articles re: Mitchell-Coleman correspondence
- Georgia Journal [Fall 1991]
- Inventory of Letters from Margaret Mitchell to Leodel Coleman [9-1-88]
- letter from Garuette J. Pope [9-16-91]
- copy of letter from Mitchell to Coleman [3-3-43] marked "Original given to Bob Talbott for Christmas 1972"
- obituary of Stephens Mitchell [5-14-83]
- two news stories re: Margaret Mitchell's WWII activities
- send chewing tobacco to soldiers [1-29-45]
- cartoon of soldier writing that his copy of Gone With the Wind saved his life [note from John Marsh and brief article re: cartoon attached]
- news article re: memorial tributes to Mitchell [1-11-50]
- photo of Margaret Mitchell with note to Coleman on back
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution commemorative - "Her Byline was Peggy Mitchell" [9/91]

Miscellaneous Items⁽¹²⁾
- Absent Voter's Ballot No. 3660, State of Georgia Democratic White Primary Bulloch County [7-4-44]
- news clipping - "3rd Marine Division Invaded Bougainville, Guam"
- Historical Map of New Zealand
- booklet - Tulagiana, about island of Tulagi before and during WWII
- Stateside Scoop, newspaper put out by USMC and American Red Cross for soldiers in Pacific [9-4-43, 9-11-43, 9-25-43]
- Report by Lt. Bulter "D" Battery to Captain Huver, Operations [8-30-44]
- handwritten notes

CC Clippings
- clippings of some of Coleman's Marine articles from the papers in which they were published, giving paper cite and date [1943-45]

Other Clippings⁽¹³⁾
- clippings of articles mailed to Coleman by his family, most dealing with family matters or Bulloch County affairs
- photo of two women, with note on back - "Remember your two sweethearts?"
- Subpoena and Summons Extraordinary from the Royal High Court of the Raging Main, Trusty Shellbacks vs. _______⁽¹⁴⁾
- The Editor's Forum [3/53]

World War Two Press Photos (1)⁽¹⁵⁾
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two⁽¹⁶⁾
- "An Historical Document" [8-8-34]⁽¹⁷⁾
- "Austrians cross into Serbia" [8-19-34]
- "Belgians in flight from Louvain" [8-19-34]
- "German Soldiers" [8-26-34]
- "British Colonials in India" (remembering WWI) [11-18-34]
- "Captured Artillery" (remembering WWI) [11-25-34]
- "War Supplies - Abyssinian Frontier" [4-20-35]
- "Germany's New Tanks in Action" [7-6-35]
- "Hitler Shows Mussolini Germany's Army" [10-29-37]
- Six photos of WWI battle sites, 19 years later [1937]
- Hitler and Mussolini inspect honor guard in Munich [1937]⁽¹⁸⁾
- "British Army Unit" [2-18-38]
- "Nazis, Fascists Meet" [3-16-38]
- "Italian Soldiers Do the Goose-Step for Hitler" [6-15-38]
- "German Dictator Reviews Italian Troops" [7-5-39]
- "Britain's War Council" [12-18-39]
- "Man and Machine Across the Desert" [1-6-40/41]
- "U. S. May Seize Normandie" [4-1-41]
- "Athens Mayor Negotiates Surrender with the Germans" [4-29-41]
- "New Minesweeper Given Trial Run" [5-14-41]
- "Workers Search Dublin Bomb Wreckage" [6-23-41]
- "Germany Declares War on Russia" [6-25-41]
- "British in Syria" [7-10-41]
- "French and British Sign Treaty Ending Syrian Campaign" [8-4-41]
- "Second American Eagle Squadron Flying for British" [12-1-41]

World War Two Press Photos (2)
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two
- "Japanese Light Bombers" [12-10-41]
- "Type of Second Japanese Battleship Bombed" [12-13-41]
- "Jap Transport Launches Invasion Barges" [12-14-41]
- "Jap Submarine That Didn't Get Away" [12-14-41]
- "'Camp Oxide' Guards New York Area" [1-26-42]
- "Palatial Liner Damaged by Flames" [2-10-42]
- "Mightiest Salvage Job in History" [2-12-42]
- "Normandie's Grand Staircase Lies in Charred Ruins" [2-12-42]
- "Report Bombs Start Fires in Kobe" [4-21-42]
- "On Duty in South African Waters" [4-27-42]
- "The Army's 'We Did It' Communique" [5-12-42]
- "Jap Occupation Money" [10-21-42]
- "Genoa Target of RAF's Mightiest Blow Against Italy" [10-24-42]
- "Big Gun Headed for Scrap Heap" [10-28-42]
- "Casablanca - After Allies Silenced Casablanca Opposition" [12-2-42]
- "British 'Secret Weapon'" [1-14-43]
- "Sunken Ship Floated at Casablanca" [2-11-43]
- "'Control Tower' on Suicide Hill" [3-28-43]
- "The Japs Strike Back at Funafati" [5-31-43]
- attack on Salerno [9-9-43]⁽¹⁹⁾
- "Allies Advance Headquarters on Sicily" [9-14-43]
- "Blasting the Way for Italian Invasion" [9-23-43]
- "Seeking Out the Wounded" [10-2-43]
- "Normandie Passes Through Manhattan Landmarks Again" [11-5-43]
- "Naples - War-Torn but Still Beautiful" [11-10-43]
- "Marine Fighting Dog Wounded in Battle of Bougainville" [12-3-43]
- "Marines Camp on Tarawa Beach" [12-6-43]
- "Old Glory Flies Above 'Fighting 69th'" [12-11-43]

World War Two Press Photos (3)
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two
- "Object of Allied Drives" [2-4-44]
- "Under New Management" [2-5-44]
- 12 views of historic Benedictine Abbey at Mount Cassino, Italy, before and after Allied bombing [2/14-16/44]⁽²⁰⁾
- "Struggle for Beached Wrecks" [2-19-44]
- "Monastery Being Blasted" [2-21-44]
- "Shells Explode Near Historic Abbey" [2-28-44]
- "Warning to Monastery Inmates" [3-2-44]
- "German Doodle Bug Examined in Italy" [4-15-44]
- "Coastal Tank Obstacles, Germans Say" [4-30-44]
- "German View of Ruined Cassino Abbey" [5-8-44]
- "Landmark in Battle for Cassino" [5-27-44]
- 6 views of D-Day invasion [6-5-44]⁽²¹⁾
- "Invasion Troops Leave England" [6-7-44]
- "Bombs for Hungary Planes to Support Invasion Force" [6-7-44]
- "Yanks Wade Ashore to Open Second Front" [6-8-44]
- "Jeeps and Men Go Ashore for Invasion" [6-8-44]
- "Assault Troops Approach French Coast" [6-8-44]
- "Allied Landing Craft Swarm to France" [6-9-44]
- "Allied Troops Work Their Way Through Beach Barriers" [6-9-44]
- "Ashore in Force" [6-10-44]
- "Supplies Come in at French Beach" [6-14-44]
- "Beach Scene After Battle" [6-14-44]
- "Yank Equipment Wrecked on French Beach" [6-14-44]
- "Clark Rides Through Rome in Jeep" [6-14-44]
- "The Allied Array in Normandy" [6-16-44]
- "Churchill, British Ministers Watch Plane" [6-16-44]
- "Clean-Up After Capture" [6-26-44]

World War Two Press Photos (4)
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two
- "New 'Flail' Tank Removes Mines" [7-6-44]
- "Thousands were arrested and executed as a result of the attempt on Hitler's life, July 20, 1944"⁽²²⁾
- "German Camouflage Observation Post" [7/44]
- "German Field Marshals Reported Dead in Purge" [7-25-44]
- "Mobile German Pillboxes" [7-28-44]
- "'Moaning Minnie' Loses Voice" [7-28-44]
- "Third Division Masses in Italy for South France Thrust" [8-19-44]
- "LSTs Loaded for Assault on Southern France" [8-25-44]
- "Normandy on D-day Morning" [9-1-44]
- "Yank Planes Attack Jap Convoy" [10-13-44]
- "Three Yanks Carry Ultimatum to Aachen" [10-16-44]
- "Okinawa Airfield Burns After U. S. Raid" [10-25-44]
- "Havoc of War Wrecks Aachen" [11-3-44]
- "Camouflage Horse" [11-24-44]
- "'Bomb Away' Over Manila" [11-29-44]
- "A B-29's View of Mt. Fujiyama" [12-9-44]

World War Two Press Photos (5)
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two
- "U. S. Officials Meet in Italy" [2-6-45]
- "Ruins of Cassino Abbey One Year After Siege" [2-19-45]
- 3 photos of Iwo Jima invasion [2-19-45]⁽²³⁾
- "Iwo Invasion Fleet Prepares for Attack" [2-20-45]
- "Joe Rosenthal Pauses Between Pictures"⁽²⁴⁾ [3-1-45]
- "Rhine River Bridge at Duesseldorf" [3-6-45]
- "Trucks Cross the Rhine on Pontoon" [3-24-45]
- "Tea Time at the Front" [3-27-45]
- "Tokyo-Bound Yank Planes Pass Fujiyama" [3-30-45]
- "Jap Flak Fills Sky as Yanks Attack Kure" [4-2-45]
- "U. S. Carrier Planes Hit Kure Airfield" [4-5-45]
- "Atrocities Evidence Shown to Germans" [4-21-45]
- "Buchenwald Prisoner Demonstrates for Congressmen" [4-28-45]
- "Reinhardt Greets Red General" [4-28-45]
- "Allied General Signs Surrender Document" [5-3-45]
- "Signing Surrender Document for Germans" [5-3-45]
- "Yanks Reach Milan Cathedral" [5-4-45]
- "Yanks, Reds Study Maps After Meeting in Germany" [5-4-45]
- "Montgomery Hears Surrender Offer" [5-7-45]
- "Lt. Gen. Foertsch Signs Surrender Papers" [5-8-45]
- "Signs for Eisenhower" [5-8-45]
- "Allied Chiefs Check Berlin Surrender Terms" [5-10-45]
- "Germans After Berlin Surrender Ceremony" [5-10-45]
- "Germany Surrenders" [5-12-45]
- "Jap Prepares to Behead Allied Flyer" [5-14-45]
- "Jap Balloon" [5-23-45]

World War Two Press Photos (6)
- Associated Press (AP) photos and captions from World War Two
- "Roofless Residences in Mainz, Germany" [6-1-45]⁽²⁵⁾
- "Utah Beach One Year Later" [6-6-45]
- "Japs Prepare to Behead Trio on Guam" [6-7-45]
- "Montgomery, Zhukov Sign Berlin Allied Control Pact" [6-8-45]
- "Japs' Own 'USA' Gets Navy Trademark Stamp" [6-11-45]
- "Allies Sign Pact in Berlin" [6-12-45]
- "Captured Jap Suicide Bomb" [6-12-45]
- "Samples of Propaganda War Against Japan" [6-18-45]
- "'Surrender' Leaflets Dropped to Japs" [6-27-45]
- "Reichstag As It Stands Today" [7-6-45]
- "These Men Will Rule Berlin" [7-13-45]
- "Yanks Take Over Bremen Submarine Ways" [7-16-45]
- "Ihiya Jima Invaded" [7-17-45]
- "Attendants Arrested at Kaufbeuren" [7-23-45]
- "Evacuation Hospital 'At Ease'" [7-25-45]
- "Japan - Flame Throwers Used" [7-30-45]
- "Japanese Lancers in Manchuria" [8-10-45]
- "Will Get Jap Surrender" [8-21-45]
- "Will Receive Jap Surrender Party in Manchuria" [8-21-45]
- "Allied Sea Power that Hit Japan" [8-21-23]
- "Rise and Fall of Jap Fleet" [8-23-45]
- "Jap Officers Aboard U. S. Destroyer" [8-27-45]
- "Probable Spearhead Leader in Jap Occupation" [8-27-45]
- "Japs in China Surrender" [8-28-45]
- "Reads Surrender Terms" [8-29-45]
- "Senior Jap Emissary" [8-29-45]
- "Made First Official Landing in Japan" [8-29-45]
- "German War Criminals to Stand Trial" [8-31-45]
- "Jap General Relinquishes Airfield" [9-3-45]
- "Jap General Signs Surrender Document" [9-5-45]
- "Osaka's Heavy Industry Area in Ruins" [9-5-45]
- "Remnants of Jap Fleet at Kure Naval Base" [9-5-45]
- "Yamashita at Surrender Conference" [9-5-45]
- "Homma and Kuroda Surrender" [9-24-45]
- "A Light for the Queen" [12-17-45]
- "Three Sign for France" [9-13-51]
- "Morrison Signs Treaty for Britain" [9-13-51]

Leodel Coleman Papers

Box 2

World's Fair Press Photographs

World's Fair Photos - Chicago
- 17 AP photos from Chicago World's Fair [1934]

World's Fair Photos - New York
- 22 AP photos from New York World's Fair [1939]
- 10 AP photos from New York World's Fair [1964]

World's Fair Photos - Montreal and Miscellaneous
- 8 AP photos from Montreal Expo [1967]
- 1 AP photo from Osaka Expo [1970]
- 4 AP photos of Duke and Duchess of Windsor
- 3 miscellaneous AP photos

Personal

Personal WWII
- Short Course to Rotation
- map - Road Net, Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
- two photos of Louisiana Patrolman Ernest Deit, Coleman's photographer during WWII
- USMC news photos
- "Jap Still"
- "Signed Release"
- "General Buckner and Succession in Okinawa"
- "Mission Accomplished"
- "Bombs Away"
- "POW Briefs Marine Pilots"
- "Spotting the Target"
- "Naha Finale"
- "Last Days on Okinawa"
- "Jap Officer Leads Marine Attack"
- "Leaders at Okinawa Front"
- "The Sixth Enters Naha"
- St. Bartholomew's Church, Tetere Beach, Guadacanal
- "Guam!"
- "It's All Over"
- "Grasshopper Over Naha"
- "Nice Clean Fun?"
- "Trapped Jap"
- "Marines Capture Iwo Jima"

WWII Personal Pictures
- Combat Correspondent memorabilia
- news clippings on Coleman's return to the U. S. [1945]
- identifiable photos⁽²⁶⁾
- Leroy Horton, Jerry Geisking, L. Coleman, Norman D. Kruger, Hy Bombory
- "Two Moras from New Zealand at Bougainville"
- "Pilot of TBF in which I flew on Rabul and Kiviang from Bougainville, Jan. 1944"
- "July 4, 1944. . . aboard the U. S. S. President Monroe"
- "Leonard F. McNally July 4, 1944 'Stodell to Radio'"
- "On way to assault of Guam July 21, 1944"⁽²⁷⁾
- "Harold Powell. . . Bougainville 1944"
- "Harold Powell, Combat Correspondent"
- "Gordon D. Marston, Stoneham, Mass. Combat Correspondent May 1944"
- "Sgt. Jim Hardin. . . Marine Air Group (MAG) at Bougainville - Jan. 29, 1944"
- "Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz adds his personal congratulations after awarding the S{?} Service Medal to Major General B. Erskine of Columbia, La."
- "New Orleans 1945"
- Marines standing around sign with poem on it - "So when we reach the 'Isle of Japan'; With our caps at a Jaunty tilt; We'll enter the city of Tokyo; On the roads the Seabees built"
- photo to go with Story 20
- "Service Men's Club at Masterson, New Zealand, South Island"
- "Denig's Demons" sign
- "At Guadacanal at rest area waiting orders to come home about Nov. 1944"
- "Leodel Coleman, James O. Hardin, Dan Bailey; Bougainville 1/44 (all combat correspondents)" - "Capt. Dan Toppin (owner of Brooklyn Dodgers professional football, husband of Sonya Heine) made at El Toro Marine Air Base, April 27, 1943"
- "New Orleans 1945 USMC Major Meigs O. Frost"
- "Aboard an abandoned Japanese destroyer at Guadacanal while in rest area awaiting transportation home in 1944; center - "Red Marston, Mass.; right - Frank Acosta, Washington, DC"
- "Torpedo Bomber (TBF) in which I made a number of flights over Rabul and Kiviang while at Bougainville 11-1-43 to 3-20-44"
- "April 28, 1943 Hollywood, Calif. with Fred McMurray"
- "Five Combat Correspondents and Two Gals - made at Hollywood Canteen, Hollywood, Calif. Sunday night April 28, 1943"⁽²⁸⁾
- "Hollywood, Calif. April 28, 1943 with George Raft"
- Sgt. Norma Lindsay and her "pin-up boys"
- photographs of the Coleman family (7)
- photographs of Leodel Coleman alone (11)
- unidentified photographs (2)

Other

Sealed box containing letters to Leodel Coleman from Brooks Grimes, 1943-1945. To Be Opened Only With Director's Permission

Copies for Patron Use of the Margaret Mitchell - Leodel Coleman correspondence

Copies for Patron Use of Coleman's USMC dispatches
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1. There is a note attached to this story. The letter found is a letter written home by Lt. H. S. Smith. His friends found it after he was killed in action. They wanted a story about the letter, but permission from the widow was needed for publication.

2. These are two- or three-line blurbs about general Marine non-combat activities.

3. There is a note on this story - "Requested by Western Procurement Div. for Seaside Publishing Company, Seaside, Ore. -AG-_802-EAM, 13 November 1944."

4. Marston, Wahrman, and Hurley were also USMC Combat Correspondents. They were in training with Coleman, and kept in touch after being assigned to different places.

5. There is no information on who these friends were. The heading is "To all my Friends, and I do mean friends."

6. This letter contains a letter (written on March 30) to Jim Coleman from Joel C. "Jake" Harris.

7. This letter has no salutation, but a note at the top of the page says "Send to" all these people.

8. This is what the name looks like to me, but I found the handwriting very difficult to read.

9. This letter is also handwritten and hard to read.

10. This contains quotes from the book Combat Correspondent by Lieutenant Jim Lucas. The quotes are for submission to the Infatuation With Sound of Own Words department.

11. Beatrice Grimshaw was an author whom Coleman was trying to find for Margaret Mitchell. She had been one of Mitchell's favorite childhood authors.

12. Note: These items were in separate folders which had no name.

13. Note: All non-clippings in this folder were in the envelope marked "Clippings."

14. This looks as if it is some kind of Navy/Marine joke.

15. All the press photos in the collection were found in an envelope marked "These photos were given by Leodel Coleman to Dr. George A. Rogers, who later donated them. June 1992."

16. Note: Unless otherwise noted, the dates given are the dates on which the photos were used, not the date they were made.

17. This document is Germany's mobilization order from World War One, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm II [8-1-14].

18. Note: This photo was used to advertise a television documentary on WWII, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, in 1963.

19. Note: This photo was used for a commemorative edition on September 9, 1963.

20. The Germans were using this monastery as their Italian headquarters, apparently because they believed the Allies would not bomb it out of respect for the monks who lived there, and also because of its historical value.

21. Note: These were used for anniversary commemorations in 1959 and 1964.

22. The caption of this photo reads "Who will answer?". It was used for a retrospective article in 1964, as was the one after it.

23. These photos were used for a commemorative edition in 1965.

24. Rosenthal was a combat photographer.

25. This was the first in a series of photos done for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White.

26. Note: Words in parentheses are quotes from back of photograph.

27. There are names listed on the back of the photograph as well, however I had trouble reading them.

28. Note: The names of the people in the picture are written on the back.