White, Frank B., (1915-1999) Marines Those Brass-Button Queens

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GLC#
GLC09855.52.02-View header record
Type
Newspapers
Date
17 July 1944
Author/Creator
White, Frank B., (1915-1999)
Title
Marines Those Brass-Button Queens
Place Written
Saipan Island
Pagination
2 p. ; 20.6 x 10.5 cm.
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945

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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