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  <titleInfo>
    <title>H.C.L. Merillat papers, 1942-2000</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Merillat, H. C. L. (Herbert Christian Laing)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1915-</namePart>
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      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, and other papers relating to Merillat's activities as staff historian with the 1st Marine division during the Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942-1943.  Includes a copy of a Japanese map, translation of the Japanese written on the map, and commentary on the map concerning the Japanese garrison on Guadalcanal following the U.S. landings.  Also includes Merillat's commentaries on several books concerning the Battle of Guadalcanal.</abstract>
  <note>Restrictions apply.</note>
  <note>Author, journalist, lawyer, government official, and U.S. Marine Corps officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Corps.</namePart>
      <namePart>Marine Division, 1st.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
    <geographic>Solomon Islands</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
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    <occupation>Authors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Marine Corps officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Public officials</occupation>
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