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A vast influx of new collections continues to inundate the
MacArthur Memorial staff so keep it up out there. You are doing a great job.
The papers of famed journalist, photographer and author
Richard Henschel, Record Group-42 in the MacArthur archives, were added to by
the donations from nephew-in-law Howard Husock of Brookline, Massachusetts. More
than 330 photographs came in with this donation. Amongst it was the ever elusive
photo of MacArthur at the map, pointing at the Philippines during the Pearl
Harbor Conference. It was a little fuzzy, probably why it was never widely
distributed, but after 40 years of searching it is now located so plan on seeing
it everywhere as it is in the public domain.
The papers of the famous daredevil, pirate and mad scientist of airplanes,
Lt. Col. Paul I. "Pappy" Gunn were donated by his daughter, Mrs. Julie Gunn
Bonanno of Arlington, Virginia. The Royce Raid, the mounted cannons in the B-25
Mitchell, it’s all there. Consisting of articles, orders, and some
correspondence it is a much appreciated contribution.
A great boost to the library was made by the donation of
Bataan veteran Paul Rueter of Maryland. More than 250 books belonging to Bataan
veteran Neal Harrington had been given to his best friend Paul Rueter upon his
own death. Dr. Elizabeth Norman of We Band of Angels fame suggested we
get in touch with Paul and a truck was dispatched to Maryland to pick up a great
collection of many hard to find books about Bataan, Corregidor and prisoner of
war memoirs. Highlighted in this collection was a signed copy of super spy
Claire Phillips’ Manila Espionage.
Caroline Bailey Pratt of Davis, California, donated the papers of her family
to the MacArthur Memorial in connection with the Liberation Weekend
festivities. Caroline’s father was Fay Bailey of National City Bank in Manila.
He was incarcerated with all Allied nationals when Japan occupied the
Philippines. He was a key player in the history of Santo Tomas Internment Camp
and the papers are extremely significant.
Also in conjunction with Liberation Weekend Mrs. Alice
Sawyer of Carmel, California, donated a large collection of Santo Tomas
documents. They were documents that had come into Goodwill years ago and Alice
saved them thinking them important. She was right. There is a color program for
a football game in the early days of the camp, before starvation ended all such
activity, that is just stunning. Whose papers these were is unknown.
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