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Reminiscences of Lester A. Dessez : oral history, 1970.

Creator: Dessez, Lester A.
Project: Marine Corps project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 246 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Marine Corps officer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood recollections of Theodore Roosevelt, pre-World War I America; World War I enlistment in Marine Corps; terms of duty in France, Haiti, Japan, China, Washington, D.C.; World War II, commanding Defense Batallion, Samoa; duty in Office of Chief of Naval Operations, 1945-46; Guam; Japanese war criminals; Office of National Defense, Joint Staff/Joint Chiefs of Staff; recollections of Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, General George Patton.

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Interview is in the public domain.

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