HARUMFRODITEUN1TED STATES MARINE CORPS MUSEUM NEWSLETTER

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VOL 1 AUGUST 1971 NO. 4

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"The Last 100 Yards."By Colonel Donald L. Dickson, USMCR, (Retired)1943, from sketches made on Guadalcanal, 1942.

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On May seventeenth the MCorps Museum was honored to hostMajor Anthony C. Brown, Royal Marine(Retired), Curator of the Royal MarineMuseum in England. Major Brown'svisit was highlighted by his generouspresentation of the 1813 recruiting posterillustrated on the facing page and thesecond copy of a newly published Sum-mary history of the Royal Marines.

During the War of 1812 three bat-talions of Royal Marines with attachedartillery served in Canada and in raidson U.S. coastal areab. Theposter givenby Major Brown is an original specimenpublished in April 1813 calling for vol-unteers for the American campaign, andnot far removed in spirit from therecruiting posters of today's U. S.Marine Corps.

From July 12 through 16, theannualmeeting of the Commandant's AdvisoryCommittee on Marine Corps History willconvene in Washington, 1). C. Among theitems to be considered this year arethe possible expansion/relocation of theMuseum in order to provide much neededspace and improved public accessabilityto the collections. The Committee thisyear will be chaired by Brigadier GeneralSamuel Jaskilka, USMC, Director of theMarine Corps Command and StaffCollege. The other members will beBrigadier General Frederick P. Hender-son, USMU (Ret), Research Analyst,RCA; Colonel Frederick S. Aldridge,USMC (Ret). Chairman of the Divisionof Social Sciences, Jacksonville Univer-sity, Florida; Dr. Philip A. Crowl,Chairman of the Department of History,University of Nebraska; Dr. Philip K.Lundeberg, Curator of the Division ofNaval History, Smithsonian Institution;Dr. Robert Seager, Dean of the College,Washington College, Maryland; andColonel Roger Willocic, USMCR (Ret),Historian and Author.

Two Museum staff members at-tended the June 1—5 meeting Of theAmerican Association of Museums atDenver, Colorado. Miss CarolynTyson,Historian and Mrs. Sharon Shelton,Manuscripts Branch joined the over 1000delegates to the conference in a varietyof workshops and group meetings andattended the keynote address by Buck—minster Fuller.

Recently Museum Historian, MissCarolyn Tyson, successfully completedthe Seminar on Historical Agency andHistorical Museum Publications held inNashville, Tetmessee. This educationalprogram was co—sponsored by theAmerican Association for State and LocalHistory and Vanderbilt University withsupport granted from the National En-dowment for the Humanities.

Primarily the objective of theSeminar was to provide the opportunityfor persons having major responsibilityfor historical publishing programs toimprove the quality and effectiveness oftheir publication efforts. Attendancewas limited to thirty participantsselected from applicants across theUnited States and Canada. Selectionwasmade on the basis of the potential bene-fits they and their publishing programswould receive from the Seminar, withspecial consideration given to personsresponsible for the programs of smallbut promising agencies and museums.

The Seminar faculty included someof the most influential leaders in thefield of historical publications, repre-senting such institutions as VanderbiltUniversity, the Ward Ritchie Press, theSmithsonian Institution, the Universitiesof Tennessee and Utah and The Nationalpark Service. Topics discussed at thetwelve scheduled sessions included therole of the editor in the historicalsociety; audio-visual publications; illus-trating, editing, layout and design ofpublications; and book publishing.

CURRENT EXHIBITS

In addition to the public displays atthe Museum proper, the Staff has partici-pated in the creation and installation ofa number of exhibits throughout thecountry. Some of these are permanentin nature while several are periodicallychanged or moved to new locations. Thefollowing is a list of current exhibits.

Annapolis, MarylandU. S. Naval Academy, MitchuerHall: Aviation exhibit featuresColonel John Glenn's Mercuryspace suit. June 1971.

North CarolinaBarker House MuseumHistoric Center, Edenton: Com-memorates the Corps' experience

Major Anthony Brown, Curator of the Royal Marine Museum Presentingan Historical Poster to Colonel David E. Schwulst, USMC, Director,

Marine Corps Museums.

at its former air station.Continuing.

Staunton, VirginiaAugusta Military Academy: Pic-torial historyof the Marine Corps.

Quantico, VirginiaStaff NCO Academy:exhibit of first Iworaising.

Philadelphia. PennsylvaniaNew Mall: Memorial to Marines,displays representing activitiesduring the American Revolutionand early Naval era. Permanent.

Boulder, ColoradoReserve District Headquarters:Cold weather warfare. Continuing.

Alma, KansasZwanziger Museum: Life andtimes of General Lewis A. Walt,USMC. Continuing.

PUBLICATIONSCurator/Senior Historian, Jack B.

Hilliard

The Museum is pleased to announcethe publication of The Eagle Globe andAnchor 1868—1.969. This is the firstnumber in what is hoped will be a usefulseries of Technical Monographs derivedfrom the Museum's collections. Thisinitial monograph summarizes a lengthystudy by Colonel John Driscoll, USMCR,into the history of the present MarineCorps emblem and represents a greatdeal of personal effort on his part sincethe majority of it was compiled duringthe evenings and weekends he couldspare from his civil employment as aninsurance company officer.

One of the publications due forrelease in the immediate future is aRegister of the John L. Broome manu-script collection. Broome served in

the Marine Corps from 1848—1888 andhis papers do much to document the roleof the shipboard Marine Officer duringthe American Civil War in which heserved as Admiral Farragut's seniorMarine officer at New Orleans andduring the ensuing year. After thewar Broome led the Marine Detach-ment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard inassisting in the suppression of the il-legal whiskey distillers in Brooklyn.

SPECIAL PROJECTSSpecial Projects Officer, Richard A.

Long

In a continuing search for the papersand memorabilia of past Marine CorpsCommandants two early officers havereceived particular attention. Lieuten-ant Colonel Anthony Gale, the 4thCommandant, who as far as can bedetermined, left no likeness for hissuccessors, and Colonel William WardBurrows, the 2d Commandant. Com-mandant Gale who was tried by courtmartial, convicted, and cashiered whileholding the senior Marine rank has longbeen an enigma to students of MarineCorps history. Little was known of himother than he had been removed fromoffice and subsequently disappeared.With the aid of a private grant, forthe purpose, contributed by Miss PansyPence Dinkle of Frankfort, Kentucky,Mr. Long has periodically endeavoredto gather sufficient material to allow thepreparation of a biography of Gale,and if possible, locate a graphic like-ness of the man to fill the last gap ina collection of portraits of formerCommandants which presently grace thewalls of the historic Home of the Com-mandant's at the Marine Barracks,Washington, D. C.

A good deal of recent research hasbeen accomplished toward locating andacquiring the surviving memorabilia andpersonal papers of William WardBurrows, the second Commandant of

pictorialJima flag

the Marine Corps, and recent develop-ments suggest that an important ac-cession of Burrows material may occurin the near future.

MANUSCRIPTSCurator, Charles A. Wood

At last the Museum has been ableto undertake the general preservationof its more deteriorated manuscriptspecimens. Through arrangement withthe National Archives the appropriatematerial in six major collections hasbeen processed as HARUMFRODITEgoes to press and a number of othersare being prepared for servicing inthe immediate future.

General Merwin H. Silverthorne

recently borrowed pertinent extractsfrom the Museum's extensive collectionof his papers for use in documentinghis recent address at the annualMemorial Day Ceremony at BelleauWood, France.

Thanks to the good offices ofLieutenant General Edward A. Craigand Gunnery Sergeant Humphrey, MarineCorps Recruiting Station, San Diego,California, Mrs. George F. Stockes hasgraciously donated the substantial col-lection of her late husband's papers tothe Museum. Brigadier General Stockes'collection will be particularly useful indocumenting the Marine Corps experi-ences in World War I and Nicaraguafrom a personal standpoint.

Marine Martin Bomber Photograph Donated by Mrs. Harry Blackwell.

REGISTRATIONRegistrar, Doris S. Davis

Mrs. Bernadette M. Kerley donatedthe memorabilia of her late husbandMajor John F. Kerr including a framed

and complete set of Marine Corpsshoulder patches authorized during theSecond World War. Major Kerr died

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in 1963 at Bethesda Naval Hospital while it is hoped that the problem of adequatestill on active duty and had at that time space for the aviation collection will beheld every Marine rank from

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privatethrough major.

AVIATIONCurator, Clyde Gillespie

During the past few months theMuseum's Aviation Branch has been astate of continuing excitement. In Mayit was directed that the Branch restora-tion workshop be moved from its quartersinto the hangar then used for aircraftstorage; the old area was needed for anactive helicopter squadron soon to bebased at Quantico. Although the com-pression of facilities has been completedit is a good deal less than ideal and

MARINE BANDMaster Sergeant Joan Ambrose

The first use of the Museum's Ma-rine Band collection for exhibition pur-poses will be inaugurated in conjunctionwith the opening of the John F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts duringSeptember and October. Specimens of

resolved in the near future. In -spiteof the difficulties inherent inmoving1 thebranch acquired three new specimens,an FM-i Meflonnel Phantom, an• FSFGrumman Bearcat and an AD- 5 DouglasSkyraider. The F8F and FH-l need a

music, both manuscripts and sheet aswell as a Marine Corps PresentationBaton of John Philip Sousa will be usedtogether with a National Portrait Gallerypainting of Sousa in a special exhibitionentitled "Portraits of the American Stage1771—1971" sponsored by the NationalPortrait Gallery.

2onBlD) NAVY MCB QUANTCO. Va.

good bit of restorative care but theAD—5 requires little morethana suitablere—paint to ready it for exhibit.

The F1I—1 was the first jet to entersquadron service with Marine aviationand the particular specimen acquiredwas one of the earliest machines ac-cepted by the Corps. Just prior to itsacquisition by the Museum it was usedas a let trainer for a commercial flyingschool.

Douglas AD- 5 Recently Added to the Aviation Collection.

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