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Box 53
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File — Box: 53, Folder: 1
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(Diary 5. Black leather.) From Washington, DC, Burks begins work as an assistant economist assigned to air intelligence division of the air corps. He works for Captain Calmolm Moss of the air estimates unit and studies manufacturing plants in Japan. He begins work on general surveys of Japan. Noteworthy are his comments on the economic and industrial significance of bombing operations. Later that year he joins a small but strategic unit responsible for current...
File — Box: 53, Folder: 2
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(Diary 6. Blue with silver lock, red bookmark. Diary 7. Black, spiral bound.) Written from Denver where Burks joined the Advanced Navy Intelligence School. He has married Jane and is studying the Japanese language. Noteworthy in Diary 6 are comments on a story in a Polish underground paper about what is happening in the concentration camps. He writes, "It is so brutal it is almost impossible to believe that man can so torture man." Jane involves herself in...
File — Box: 53, Folder: 3
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(Diary 8. Red leather with gold lettering.) Burks resumes his PhD work. He has arrived home after eighteen months at sea on active duty in the Pacific theater. Noteworthy comments include Admiral Husband Kimmel's testimony before the Pearl Harbor Investigative Committee. Additional noteworthy comments include a Zionist farm in New Jersey, his Jewish friend Sam who informs Burks about the political situation in Palestine and the desire of the Zionists who hope for an...
File — Box: 53, Folder: 4
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(Diary 9. Black with green lettering.) Burks tours Japan with Jane. Of interest is a meeting with Morito Tatso, President of Hiroshima and a member of Japan National committee for UNESCO. They discuss Hiroshima orphanages and Burks makes his first public address in Japanese. Burks writes of the upcoming election and his decision to spend Christmas in Japan. Jane conducts research of Japanese schools. Page 193 offers noteworthy comments about a dinner invitation by a...
File — Box: 53, Folder: 5
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(Diary 10. Black leather.) This is continued from previous diary. Burks writes mostly about social welfare in Japan and his personal experience with language and cultural barriers.