Beverly Coleman oral history interview

1980-03-25

Coleman, Beverly; Dove, Kay

Oral history interview with Beverly Coleman conducted by Kay Dove on March 25, 1980. Beverly Coleman (1899 - 1993) was born and raised in Washington D.C., and then went on to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. During the Occupation, Coleman was asked to serve on the military commission, acting as chief of the War Crimes Defense section. After the war crime trials, Coleman returned to the Navy and worked for the Legal Section in Tokyo.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; District of Columbia

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:58:25 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 38 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087522