Box 5
Contains 11 Results:
Original, first use stamp, presented to Roland Chiasson and other veterans at the first FDR Memorial Concert in 1945
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Phonograph record- “Tro Lontant”/ “Le Troller”
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Phonograph record- “The Best of the Cajun Hits”
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Newspaper article about Roland Chiasson (A valiant effort)- The Courier June 3, 2007
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Life Aboard A Transport- Headquarters troop training unit amphibious training command, Pacific Fleet Camp, San Diego 44, California
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Phonograph record- Message from Roland Chiasson of him playing the harmonica to his brother John V. Chiasson, June 1946
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
Poster of colored Iwo Jima flag raising with signatures collected by Roland Chaisson at reunions
Poster- Uncommon Valor was a common virtue- presented to Roland Chaisson
This poster was presented to Roland Chaisson, B-1-26th Marines, 5thMarDiv, and to many other Louisiana Marines, who signed their names thereon; done at the Marine Corps League Headquarters, New Iberia, LA for the 50th anniversary of the battle for Iwo Jima--1945-1995
Photograph of the U.S.S. Frederick Funston, APA 89, the largest APA in the Pacific in 1945, WWII
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.
"B" Co, 1st BN, 26th Marine Regiment, Fifth Marine Division (B-1-26-5) at Camp Joseph H. Pengleton Oceanside, California, 1944
This collection spans 9 linear feet and dates from approximately 1941 to 2008. It consists of correspondence, clippings, articles, interviews, ephemera, photographs, artifacts, scrapbooks, memoirs and books relating predominantly to Chiasson's service in World War II.