World War II miscellany > Lennis L. Jackson papers [Gift of Mrs. Lennis L. Jackson 10/94]


Series 9
Lennis L. Jackson papers [Gift of Mrs. Lennis L. Jackson, 10/94], 1944-1945 and undated
Box 10, Folders 4-19

Biographical Note

Lennis L. Jackson served as a war correspondent for the U.S. Navy's Seabee, a weekly magazine for Navy construction units. During his military service Jackson traveled widely in the Pacific reporting on events of interest to Navy personnel.

Scope and Content Note

This collection of his papers is primarily composed of Jackson's writings, many of which are accompanied by photographs.

Box Folder Content
10 4 List of Stories Submitted
10 5 (1) Former New York Restaurant Man Serves Jungle-Trained Seabees
10 5 (2) USO Accordionist Performs before Pacific-Based USN Seabees
10 5 (3) Seabees Gratefully Absorb Army Jungle Training
10 5 (4) Seabees and Marines Join in Decorating the Troop Mess of a Dutch Transport
10 5 (5) The Seabees Bring Civilization
10 5 (6) The Seabees Employ a Safety Engineer
10 5 (7) The Seabees Display a Japanese Beer Sign
10 5 (8) American Army Interpreters of Japanese Ancestry
10 5 (9) The Seabees Employ "Yokohama Wagons" in Marianas
10 5 (10) Three Projects, Three Problems, and Three Japs in Three Weeks
10 5 (11) Equipment, Like Seabees, "Gets Around," 3 November 1944
10 5 (12) The Most Versatile Seabee
10 5 (13) Seabees Observe Skirmish from Campsite
10 5 (14) Seabees on the Marianas Road to Tokyo
10 5 (15) A General Service Navy Group Becomes Temporary Working Guests of Seabees
10 5 (16) Seven Seabees in Tropics Receive Reminders of Alaskan Duty
10 5 (17) Seabee and Marine, Brothers, Meet in Marianas
10 5 (18) Attached to a Seabee Unit, A Medical Officer" Catches" the Construction Fever, 25 November 1944
10 5 (19) On First Day off in Marianas A Seabee Sees the Tokyo Supers, 27 November 1944
10 5 (20) The Army Engineers and Navy Seabees Team Up On a Mariana Island, 28 November 1944
10 5 (21) Seabees Kill Japs to Clear Area for New Construction, 4 December 1944
10 5 (22) The Navy Seabees Harness a Brace of Mariana Mountain Springs, 9 December 1944
10 5 (23) The Navy Seabees Say Bon Voyage to a Skipper
10 5 (24) A Seabee Reads the Want Ads, 20 December 1944
10 5 (25) untitled cutline
10 5 (26) untitled cutline with photo
10 5 (27) The Seabees Devise Bombproof Shelters
10 5 (28) Former Florida State Road Department Man Commands Navy Seabee Battalion, 15 December 1944
10 5 (29) Jacksonville Architect Assumes Executive Officer Duties, 15 December 1944
10 5 (30) A Seabee from Detroit Acts as Spokesman, 15 December 1944
10 5 (31) A Seabee from Philadelphia Baked a Three-Piece Cake
10 6 (32) Tank Driver's Seats Become Dental Chairs, 18 January 1945
10 6 (33) A Seabee Wife Creates Pin-Ups for Servicemen, 8 January 1945
10 6 (34) The Seabees Develop a Spring for the Army, 15 January 1945
10 6 (35) The Seabee Develop Inaccessible Locations, 11 January 1945
10 6 (36) Photographers with Seabees Become Carpenters, 22 January 1945
10 6 (37) Seabee Sailmaker Produces Sails for Sailboats, 29 January 1945
10 6 (38) Pharmacist's Mate with Seabees Sails for Recreation, 29 January 1945
10 6 (39) Pharmacist's Mate with Seabees Builds Boat, 30 January 1945
10 6 (40) A Seabee from Florida Sails on a Marianas Lagoon, 30 January 1945
10 6 (41) Seabees Convert Jap Bombproof Shelter to American Installation, 5 February 1945
10 6 (42) The Seabees Convert Huge Jap Oil Tank to Water Storage, 5 February 1945
10 6 (43) Seabees with Bulldozers Trap Jap in Ring-Around-the-Rosie Maneuver, 5 February 1945
10 6 (44) A Seabee Repairs Office Equipment for Army and Navy, 5 February 1945
10 6 (45) Seabee "Kids" Capture Contemptuous English-Speaking Jap, 10 February 1945
10 6 (46) Seabee Gardener Prepares to Augment Battalion Food Supply, 12 February 1945
10 6 (47) Seabee Helping Win the Peace, Too, 20 February 1945
10 6 (48) Seabees Perfect Circumcision Instrument, 26 February 1945
10 6 (49) A Seabee Shipfitter Uses Tennis Balls, 27 February 1945
10 6 (50) The Seabee Design and Build a Mobile Galley, 28 February 1945
10 7 (51) News that Mates Repaired Air Strip Cheered Wounded Seabee Veteran of Iwo, 2 March 1945
10 7 (52) Navy Seabee Wounded by Shell Which Killed His Mate, 2 March 1945
10 7 (53) Stunned by Concussion and Wounded by Shrapnel, 2 March 1945
10 7 (54) Navy Seabee Twice Wounded at Iwo Jima D-Day, 2 March 1945
10 7 (55) Remembering Seabees and Marines Killed Around Him, 2 March 1945
10 7 (56) Wounded Seabee, Seeing Flag Rise Over Mount Suribachi, 6 March 1945
10 7 (57) Navy Seabee Feels Lucky to Have Been Only Wounded, 6 March 1945
10 7 (58) Seabees Restore War-Damaged Statue of Christ, 12 March 1945
10 7 (59) The Seabees Convert Plywood and Jap Salvage Into Hospital Equipment, 20 March 1945
10 7 (60) Seabees Manufacture Hospital and Dental Clinic Equipment, 20 March 1945
10 7 (61) The Chief of Navy Chaplains Lauds Organ Attachments Designed and Built by a Navy Seabee from Brooklyn, 20 March 1945
10 7 (62) A Navy Seabee Uses Captured Jap Machine Tool in Making Dental Clinic Equipment, 26 March 1945
10 7 (63) The Seabees Convert Jap Float Plane Trailers, 26 March 1945
10 7 (64) The Seabees Use Jap Scrap in Building a Personnel Trailer, 26 March 1945
10 7 (65) Four Jap Soldiers Run Up the White Flag before a Civil Engineer Corps Officer and a Navy Seabee, 3 April 1945
10 7 (66) A Seabee Makes a Small Sewing Machine Bobbin after a Misunderstanding Slashed the Red Tape, 3 April 1945
10 7 (67) Navy Seabee Cast a Battalion's Bell, 3 April 1945
10 7 (68) Navy Seabee Metalsmith and Shipfitter from Pennsylvania Help Make Equipment Requested by Army General Hospital, 10 April 1945
10 7 (69) Seabee Machinist's Mates Make Delicate Perforated Caps for Aspirator Tips Going to Army General Hospital, 10 April 1945
10 7 (70) A Chief of Storekeeper with the Navy Seabees Coordinated Army-Marine Supply Service for His Unit, 10 April 1945
10 7 (71) The Seabees Solve a Building Material Shortage, 17 April 1945
10 7 (72) A Navy Seabee is Impressed by the Real Rubber Tires On Captured Jap Trucks, 17 April 1945
10 7 (73) Captured Jap Metal Used by Navy Seabees in Making Footlights for Outdoor Theater, 17 April 1945
10 7 (74) A Seabee Photographer's Mate Turns Away from Construction to Catch a Snail, 24 April 1945
10 7 (75) The Navy Seabees Made Shears Which Cut One-Quarter-Inch Steel, 24 April 1945
10 7 (76) A Navy Seabee Removed the Jolt from the Jack Hammer, 24 April 1945
10 7 (77) A Navy Seabee in the Marianas Meets a Hollywood Starlet from His Home Town, 1 May 1945
10 7 (78) A Seabee Machinist's Mate Rebuilds a Jap Lathe, 1 May 1945
10 7 (79) A Chamorro Navy Seabee Returns Home to Guam, 1 May 1945
10 7 (80) A Navy Seabee Supervises Japanese Surveying Crews, 8 May 1945
10 7 (81) Navy Seabee Tool Designer Rebuilds Captured Jap Machines Damaged in Marianas Invasion, 8 May 1945
10 7 (82) A Navy Seabee of a Demolition Team Loses Both Legs in Action After Completing Pre- Invasion Mission, 8 May 1945
10 7 (83) Mining for Water in the Marianas, 15 May 1945
10 7 (84) A Navy Seabee's Son Led the Marine Platoon First Atop Mount Suribachi and First to Raise Flag, 16 May 1945
10 7 (85) The Rails from Abandoned Jap Railway Are Fitted to Many Uses by Navy Seabees, 17 May 1945
10 7 (86) Navy Names Band, 17 May 1945
10 8 (87) Here's How, 31 July 1945
10 8 (88) Combings, 31 July 1945
10 8 (89) Combings, 31 July 1945
10 8 (90) Combings, 31 July 1945
10 8 (91) Two Navy Seabees from Same Town Acquire Souvenir Together on Okinawa, 31 July 1945
10 8 (92) Overseas Twenty-Three Months, Seabee Mascot Growls for Rotation, 31 July 1945
10 8 (93) Seabees Assist Marines in Building Unique Tower
10 8 (94) Seabee Replaces Step-Father Who Lost Life in Accident, 31 July 1945
10 8 (95) Navy Seabees Devise Tie-Downs for Okinawa Bombers, 31 July 1945
10 8 (96) Okinawa Traffic Circle, 31 July 1945
10 9 (97) Seabee Gunner's Mate Prepares for Peace, 22 August 1945
10 9 (98) First American Built Pier at Okinawa Goes Into Operation, 7 September 1945
10 9 (99) Navy Seabee Visits Grave of Close Friend on Okinawa, 13 September 1945
10 9 (100) Harding Brothers in Adjacent Navy Seabee Camps on Okinawa at End of War, 15 September 1945
10 9 (101) Two Navy Seabee Brothers from Americus, Georgia, Continue Together in War and Peace, 18 September 1945
10 9 (102) A North Carolina Seabee Helped Maintain Yontan Airfield Where Many War-End Bombing Missions Originated, 21 September 1945
10 9 (103) Seabee on Okinawa Playing Hand-Made Guitar, undated
10 9 (104) Navy Seabees Covert Jap Blankets to Overhead Heat Insulating Material, 27 September 1945
10 9 (105) Mailmen with Navy Seabees on Okinawa Sweat Out Frozen Rating, 5 October 1945
10 9 (106) Disbursing Storekeepers with Frozen Rating Become Unwilling Members of Exclusive Set, 5 October 1945
10 10 (107) Navy Seabee from Troy Landed from First American Ship Docked at Tokyo Bay
10 10 (108) Navy Seabee from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Landed from First American Ship Docked at Tokyo Bay, 8 October 1945
10 10 (109) Navy Seabee from Detroit Landed from First American Ship Docked at Tokyo Bay, 8 October 1945
10 10 (110) Navy Seabee from Framingham, 8 October 1945
10 10 (111) Navy Seabee Brothers from Ogden, 8 October 1945
10 10 (112) Navy Seabee from Gallup, 8 October 1945
10 10 (113) Navy Seabee from Brooklyn, 8 October 1945
10 10 (114) Navy Seabee from Quincy, 8 October 1945
10 10 (115) Navy Seabee from Lodi, 8 October 1945
10 10 (116) Navy Seabee from Providence, 8 October 1945
10 10 (117) Navy Seabee from Mauch Chunk, 8 October 1945
10 10 (118) Navy Seabee from Newburyport, 8 October 1945
10 10 (119) Navy Seabee from Houston, 8 October 1945
10 10 (120) Navy Seabee from Erie, 8 October 1945
10 10 (121) Navy Seabee from Santa Rosa, 8 October 1945
10 10 (122) Navy Seabee from Claremont, 8 October 1945
10 10 (123) Navy Seabee from Benton Harbor, 8 October 1945
10 10 (124) Navy Seabee from Denver, 8 October 1924
10 10 (125) Navy Seabee from Andalusia, 8 October 1945
10 10 (126) Navy Seabee from Stockton, 8 October 1945
10 10 (127) Navy Seabee from Knobel, 8 October 1945
10 10 (128) Navy Seabee from New York City, 8 October 1945
10 10 (129) Navy Seabee from Lattimer, 8 October 1945
10 10 (130) Navy Seabee from New City, 8 October 1945
10 10 (131) Navy Seabee from Pearl River, 8 October 1945
10 10 (132) Navy Seabee from Portland, 8 October 1945
10 10 (133) Navy Seabee from Salt Lake City, 8 October 1945
10 10 (134) Navy Seabee from Rensselaer, 8 October 1945
10 10 (135) Navy Seabee from Price, 8 October 1945
10 10 (136) Navy Seabee from Pipestone, 8 October 1945
10 10 (137) Navy Seabee from Duluth, 8 October 1945
10 10 (138) Navy Seabee from Shanandoah, 8 October 1945
10 10 (139) Navy Seabee from Duluth, 8 October 1945
10 10 (140) Navy Seabee from St. Louis, 8 October 1945
10 10 (141) Navy Seabee from Colebrook, 8 October 1945
10 10 (142) Navy Seabee from Toledo, 8 October 1945
10 10 (143) Navy Seabee from Dallas, 8 October 1945
10 10 (144) Navy Seabee from Kingsport, 8 October 1945
10 10 (145) Navy Seabee from New Dorp, 8 October 1945
10 10 (146) Navy Seabee from Washington, 8 October 1945
10 10 (147) Navy Seabee from Sagle, 8 October 1945
10 10 (148) Navy Seabee from Kershaw, 8 October 1945
10 10 (149) Navy Seabee from Gary, 8 October 1945
10 10 (150) Navy Seabee from Peabody, 8 October 1945
10 10 (151) Navy Seabee from Oroville, 8 October 1945
10 10 (152) Navy Seabee from the Bronx, 8 October 1945
10 10 (153) Navy Seabee from Charlottesville, 8 October 1945
10 10 (154) Navy Seabee from Summerville, 8 October 1945
10 10 (155) Navy Seabee from Columbia, 8 October 1945
10 10 (156) Navy Seabee from Berlin, NH, 8 October 1945
10 10 (157) Navy Seabee from Covina, 8 October 1945
10 10 (158) Navy Seabee from Cherokee, 8 October 1945
10 10 (159) Navy Seabee from La Porte, 8 October 1945
10 10 (160) Navy Seabee from Ventura, 8 October 1945
10 10 (161) Navy Seabee from Venice, 8 October 1945
10 10 (162) Navy Seabee from Buffalo, 8 October 1945
10 10 (163) Navy Seabee from Eureka, 8 October 1945
10 10 (164) Navy Seabee from Phoenix, 8 October 1945
10 10 (165) Navy Seabee from Milton, 8 October 1945
10 10 (166) Navy Seabee from Pratt, 8 October 1945
10 10 (167) Navy Seabee from New Bedford, 8 October 1945
10 11 (168) Seabees at Yokosuka Naval Air Base--21 photographs to illustrate story nos. 107-168
10 12 (169) Father and Son Enlisted Together in Navy Seabees and Now Serve in Same Unit, 26 October 1945
10 12 (170) Portable Organs and Miscellaneous Items Converted into Two-Manual Chapel Organ, 26 October 1945
10 12 (171) October Typhoon Hits during World Series, undated
10 12 (172) Navy Seabee Paints Signs in Two Languages, 1 November 1945
10 12 (173) Seabee Meets Okinawa from California, 5 November 1945
10 12 (174) CPO Returns to View Quarters Demolished by Typhoon, 5 November 1945
10 13 Seabee Magazine--Manual for Staff Correspondents
10 14 The Eighth Special Battalion, by Lennis L. Jackson
10 15 The Eighth Special's Seabeezness, January-May 1944
10 16 Correspondence and orders of Lennis L. Jackson, 1944-1945
10 17 30 photographs of people and scenes on Okinawa
10 18 Other photographs
10 19 Other writings by Lennis L. Jackson
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