| Richard Lyman, a member of the class of 1957 at Bowdoin, served in
the army as a lieutenant and captain for several years (two years on
active duty), got an MA and PhD from Harvard. His field was medieval
English history, with an emphasis on financial and legal aspects of
the central government. He taught at Bowdoin 1963-6, then at Simmons
between 1966 and 1998 (where he was chair of history for ten years and
founding director of their East Asian Studies program), with visiting
semesters at Wesleyan and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and since
1998 he has been Lecturer in History and East Asian History at
Brandeis (and chair of their EAS program one year). |
John Allison served in the occupation as a lieutenant. He was one of
the first ashore (Yokohama), even before the surrender ceremony, and
later served as a financial affairs officer of the occupation, right
through MacArthur's firing. These photos and a book of war art were
given to Richard Lyman, who in turn donated them to the Asian Studies
Program at Bowdoin College. The photos themselves were released by
the Yomiuri newspapers on the first anniversary of the Declaration of
War on the United States. The album contains a copy of the December 8
Declaration of War, in addition to these 40 photographs which
epitomize the "victory fever" which swept Japan during the first year
of the Pacific War. |
