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 M. Coleman (January 9, 1899 - August 1, 1993) was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland in 1922. He served in the Navy for two years and remained in the Reserve status until 1940. At the time, he attended George Washington University Law School and opened his own practice. 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, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral, 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 (audio cassette; 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