Box 2

In this manuscript, he relates his experiences with some men of "B" Company, 1st Battalnon, 26th Marine Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division. Allen Barrett and Roland Chiasson were close friends after the war, and both communicated heavily with each other. Allen Barrett lived in Baltimore, Maryland at the time he wrote this manuscript of Iwo.

Includes facts and reports of Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, along with paper clippings and other items having to do with the second Iwo Jima statue memorial that was erected in Harlingen, TX in April 1982

Contains letters, photographs, articles, Iwo Jima information, first issue envelopes and stamps, etc.

Contains letters, articles, newspaper articles, certificates, invitation, photographs, and information about Roland Chiasson.

Contains information regarding the 23 people interviewed via video from Seattle at the Red Lion Hotel, September 1994. Remarks were put together in a video called "Iwo Jima: Red Blood, Black Sand," and it was shown nationwide on 61 PRS TV stations on February 19, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the battle for Iwo Jima.

Contains 12 letters Roland Chiasson's brother (J.V. Chiasson) saved. Letters that Roland sent to him and to his grandmother (Mrs. Octavia Rodrigue) during his tenure of service with the United States Marine Corps, during World War II

Contains service medical records, first issue Iwo Jima stamps, letters, various event programs, a pictorial review of United States Naval Hospital in St. Albans, Long Island, N.Y., etc.