White, Frank B., 1915-1999 Marines Those Brass-Button Queens
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09855.052.02 Author/Creator: White, Frank B., 1915-1999 Place Written: Saipan Island Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 17 July 1944 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 10.5 cm Order a Copy
One newspaper clipping from Frank B. White to L. Jean White dated July 17, 1944. Sent care of Fleet Post Office in San Francisco California. Clipping is of a poem titled "Those Brass-Button Queens" originally published in "Gismo" a publication for servicemen in the South Pacific. The poem was inspired by the "signs of conscious superiority inherent in every marine" the poem is believed to be written by a sailor.
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