The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with T. G. Crews. Crews was born on 26 February 1917 in Erath County, Texas and enlisted in the Marine Corps in July 1937 after graduating from high school. He was sent to China in 1938 as a member of the North China Marines tasked with guarding the American Embassy in Peking and railroads. He was in China on 8 December 1941 when the Japanese took 204 Marines prisoner. Crews was among the Peking Marines taken prisoner. In March 1942 the prisoners were loaded into boxcars and taken to an internment camp north of Shanghai. Approximately 1100 Marines and civilians previously captured at Wake Island were already there. He soon came down with malaria and dysentery. He spent three years as a POW around Shanghai. On 9 May 1945 approximately 1,000 POWs were taken by rail to Fengtai, China a district near Peking. The conditions there were the worst he had experienced as the POWs lived in large warehouses on dirt or brick floors without bedding. The latrines were open and the water was bad. Crews’ weight fell to less than 100 pounds. On 19 June 1945 the prisoners …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lyndon Baines Johnson. Johns tells an anecdote of waking up sick in the hospital on Fiji and being transported to Hawaii where Admiral Nimitz invited him to return to the US with him in his plane. Johnson declined as he was not feeling well enough to travel. He then mentions that Nimitz'z plane crashed upon landing in the San Francisco Bay.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alton Halbrook. Halbrook joined the Marine Corps in 1938 while enrolled at John Tarleton Agricultural College (Tarleton State University). After training at San Diego, Halbrook was assigned to duty in Shanghai before serving as a sea-going Marine aboard the USS Augusta (CA-31). Due to seasickness, he returned to the 4th Marine Regiment in China. Halbrook shares several stories of duty in China prior to the outbreak of war with Japan. When he asked permission to marry a Greek girl in Shanghai, the Marines shipped him to Cavite in the Philippines in early 1941. Halkbrook was present at the Cavite Navy Yard when the Japanese attacked in December, 1941. He recalls being supremely confident, cocky even, that when it came to a fight with the Japanese, the Americans would prevail easily. His illusion was shattered the day following the attack on Cavite when he was burying his dead friends. During the battle for Bataas, Halbrook hauled supplies from Manila until he was assigned to beach defense on Corregidor. Before Bataan fell, Halbrook volunteered to command a hastily organized unit of Philippine Army riflemen and went back to Bataan. He …

Handwritten grammar notes on placement of particles within the verb phrases, noun phrases, and clauses comparing Hansson's analysis with examples from David Whitely Dillinger's 1969 dissertation on Akha.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations with four male Akha consultants (three in their mid 20s, and one in his early 40s) about social customs related to marriage and special clothing, foods, and utensils used in the ceremonies.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Àshú's personal narratives about his childhood and becoming a teacher, Akha village life, and four Akha songs.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about New Years festivals including comments from Akha consultants in red ink.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences with complement clauses, modals, and negatives in various aspects. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences with complement clauses, modals, causatives, and interrogatives in various aspects and word lists of body parts, common Akha names, place names, and action verbs. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences with complement clauses, stative verbs, imperatives, modals, interrogatives, and causatives in various aspects. Continued from Notebook 21. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences with complement clauses, modals, and causatives in various aspects. Continued from Notebook 20. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences with complement clauses, causatives, and interrogatives in various aspects. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes on Akha grammar including a verb paradigm and simple sentences in different aspects. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Handwritten notes on Akha grammar including word lists, simple sentences in different aspects, and short dialogues. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.

Certificate designating land to Pedro J. Gonalez. An icon of two people and land surrounded by the text "C.C.I." and Central Campesino Independiente" is printed to the left of a small text column. Further down the page is a wide column of paragraphed text positioned to the right of a narrower text column and a printed seal. The word "copy" has been handwritten at the top of the page while markings have been made across text near the page's bottom.

Letter to Jesus Lopez Gastellum from Pedro J. Gonzalez and other members of the confederacion de veteranos revolucionarios de la division del norte. A long, curving title is printed above small lines of text that sit above and beside a bird icon, below which is a printed date. Beneath the date is a stamped seal and a wide column of text positioned to the right of a narrower text column. On the page's back are nine signatures and two stamped seals.

"Declaraciones de los ofendidos." A small block of text is printed above a few handwritten marks and a wide column of text that has a column of numbers to its left. The text columns continue onto the paper's back, ending above additional paragraphs and handwriting.

Letter to Luis Echevarria Alvarez from the president of "Legion nacional de hijos y descendientes de veteranos de la revolución" from Pedro J. Gonzalez. On each of the three pages is a wide column of paragraphed text printed below smaller blocks of text. Printed on the first page is one seal while the second page has two seals, and the third page has three seals.

Letter to Luis Echevarria Alvarez from the president of "Legion nacional de hijos y descendientes de veteranos de la revolución." A long title is printed above small lines of text that sit above and beside a bird icon, below which is a printed date. Beneath the date is a stamped seal and a wide column of text positioned to the right of a smaller text column. The wide column of text continues onto the page's back and ends above multiple signatures.

Letter to Pedro J. Gonzalez from Eduardo Angeles Meraz and Roberto Sanchez Aguilar. On the front of the page, a long title is printed above small lines of text that are positioned around a bird icon. Below the icon is a wide column of text printed to the right of a narrower text column. On the page's back are a few short lines of text followed by two signatures.

A letter from Celso López Valencia to Luis Echeverría Alvares. A line divides a small list of text from a wide column of paragraphed text that continues onto a second page and ends on a third page, above a signature. The fourth page has four paragraphs printed at its top.

Washington Post Article titled "New Crop of Co-ops: Poor Own the Patch." The date, newspaper name, and title of the article are printed at the top of the page above three columns of text that each have smaller titles and drop caps.

A Register-Pajaronian article titled "An Unusual Way to Attack Poverty." The newspaper's name is printed in a rectangular outline that contains two small icons and short lines of text. The title of the article is printed below the outline and is followed by a single column of paragraphed text that extends to the page's bottom edge.

A translated article titled "Una Unión Feliz," from the Washington Post. The article's titled is printed on the front side of the page on one line above its date, newspaper name, and translation information. The rest of the page is filled by a single wide column of text, which continues onto the back side of the page and ends above a signature.