Box 2

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The paper contain two scrapbooks, one limited to only clippings, the other scrapbook has newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, pamphlets, booklets, itineraries, newsletters, Navy Day event-related papers, bulletins, a poem, and a resume. Also included is a publication titled: “Men Make the Navy,” a series of 20 articles.

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Letter to William E. Beard from Chief of Naval Operations Lieutenant Commander Kernise January 24, 1946; letter to William E. Beard from Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas J.T. Bullen, Jr. February 16, 1946; Clipping by Beard: “‘Vigorous Offense is Best Defense,’ Carrier Crew Told” January 19, 1944; journal entry “Aircraft Carrier” by William E. Beard

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Naval Air Transports Service Atlantic Wing, Passenger Information pamphlet; journal entry “Christmas” by William E. Beard; Press Release February 25, 1944

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Broken up newspaper clippings; photographs; “Commentary on Future Military Air Transport Needs and Methods of Meeting Them”

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Newspaper clipping: “Story of the Gallant, USS Tennessee” December 11, 1945; Officer’s Memorandum, No. 36S-45; Press Release “Summary of the History of the Atomic Bomb” by Lieutenant Colonel John E. Vance; Press Release: “To the Correspondents on the Appalachians”; newspaper clippings, titled: “Battered LST With 327 Aboard Docks at Norfolk Minus Stern”

Scope and Contents Newspaper pages 1-2 “Cruiser Nashville Made Gallant Record in Both Atlantic and Pacific Nashville and Murfreesboro Are Very Proud of Mrs. Douglas MacArthur” by William E. Beard August 10, 1945; Review by William E. Beard of “Empire and the Sea” by Fletcher Pratt; newspaper clipping (undated); newspaper clipping June 6, 1945 “Philippine War Thriller” edited by Mary Stahlman Douglas; photograph; letter from U.S. Navy admiral E.J. King July 5, 1944; newspaper clipping “A Grave in Khartum” by...

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Newspaper clipping (unknown date, author, title); partial letter; Press Release September 21, 1944; newspaper clipping “Record of ‘D-Minus-Three’ Parallels History of War” July 15, 1945; Press Release June 25, 1944

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Newspaper clipping “Text of Japan’s Note on Panay” December 15, 1937; newspaper clipping “Philippines D-Day Drawing Nearer” August 11, 1944; Press Release; Itinerary February 15; “Tennessee and The Navy”; Newspaper clipping “How MacArthur and Nimitz Set Stage for Invasion” by John L. Springer July 15, 1945; letter from William E. Beard to John H. DeWitt May 6, 1946; Newspaper clipping “USS Buchanan Made 13 Lucky Number for U.S.” February 4, 1946

Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping “Navy Oiler is Sunk in Action in Pacific” December 20, 1944; Press Release November 15, 1943; July 1, 1943; Newspaper clipping “JP. Morgan’s Yacht, Corsair Did Wonders During War” September 2, 1945; Newspaper clipping “‘Fighting Ike’ Home After Storm War Role” November 21, 1945; Pamphlet “Sea Power and Peace: United States Naval Institute Proceedings” by Commodore Ernest M. Eller; Naval Application; Newspaper clipping “USS Ingraham Survives Direct Suicide Blow” July 2,...

Scope and Contents Poem by William S. Warford “The Sailor’s Twenty-Third Psalm”; Newspaper clipping “Six Jap Suicide Flyers Foiled by Ship Gunners” August 23, 1945; Newspaper clipping “Ramsay, Sea Chief of Allies, is Killed” by the Associated Press January 3, 1945; Newspaper clipping “Sea Queens’ Play Big Part In the War” by Kirke L. Simpson May 19, 1945; Newspaper clipping “Queen of Merchant Marine Plays Important Role in War” June 10, 1945 & “Victory Ship Named for Clarksville” October 13, 1944;...

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Letter to William E. Beard from Chief of Naval Operations Lieutenant Commander Kernise January 24, 1946 (first copy found in Folder 2); letter to William E. Beard from Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas J.T. Bullen Jr. February 15, 1946 (first copy found in Folder 2); letter to William E. Beard from Chief of Naval Operations S.E. Brogan July 14, 1947; journal entry “Iowa” by William E. Beard; particle copy of journal entry “Iowa” by William E. Beard

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Written copy of a broadcast by William E. Beard; Press Release via Western Union by William E. Beard; Letter from Douglas MacArthur to Governor Jim McCord February 23, 1946; journal entry “Roosevelt Club” by William E. Beard

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“Some Naval ‘Big Shots’” by William E. Beard; Newspaper clipping “38 Tennesseans Aboard Macon, Beard Reveals” by William E. Beard 1947; Newspaper clipping “Saipan, Restored From Rubble, Finest Advance Base in Pacific” September 21, 1945; Newspaper clipping of review by William E. Beard for “Woman’s Aid Turned Tide of Civil War” by Noble Hosllister July 30, 1948

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“U.S.S. Bataan”; letter “U.S.S. Bataan” to William E. Beard from Lieutenant J.R. Ward January 27, 1944; Press Release “Establishment of U.S. Naval Academy Climaxed Long Struggle”

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Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 1 “Bataan Speaking”; letter to William E. Beard from Leland P. Lovette March 22, 1944; Press Release April 20, 1944

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Handwritten letter to William E. Beard from Lieutenant Jim Ward June 2, 1944; letter to William E. Beard from Val H. Schaeffer July 27, 1944; handwritten letter to William E. Beard from Fred Lawler September 20, 1944; letter to William E. Beard from Lieutenant Jim Ward November 16, 1944; journal entry “Fleet Passage” by William E. Beard

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Journal entry “Bataan” by William E. Beard October 12; journal entry “Friday Bataan” by William E. Beard

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Press Release; letter February 14,1946; letter February 21, 1946; Press Release “Well Done”; Press Release; Navy graduation itinerary July 6, 1947; Newspaper clipping “Commemorating the Maine” February 15, 1948; journal entry “Bataan” by William E. Beard

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Impartial journal entry (untitled); journal entry (blurry); Press Release August 27, 1945; journal entry “The Ranger”

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Press Release October 26, 1944; Press Release May 19, 1945; Press Release January 27, 1945; Press Release October 26, 1944 (copy)