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Thurston Macon transcript, 1941-1946, Date acquired: 10/02/2001

 

Summary

Creator:
Macon, Thurston, 1924-2002
Extent:
1 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Thurston Macon transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0511.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Thurston Macon who served as a Corporal in the United States Army with 799th Military Police Battalion during World War II. Within this interview, Macon describes his basic training at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan, his trip to Australia on the USAT Willard A. Holbrook. He describes his guard detail for General MacArthur in Brisbane, Australia, and Manila, as well as his personal interaction with MacArthur. Macon was also chosen as an honor guard for the Yamashita trial in late 1945.

Biographical / historical:

Thurston Macon was born on December 18, 1924, in Zebulon, North Carolina. Macon recalls his last year of formal education was the fourth grade at a local grade school. He left school to help his father with farm work. At fourteen Macons' family moved to Henderson, North Carolina about an hour away from his hometown of Zebulon. Macon then moved by himself to Washington D.C. at the age of seventeen. On December 7, 1941, he was sitting in a jail cell in Tampa, Florida for jumping into freight trains with his cousin when he heard of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Although he was too young to volunteer for the military that did not stop him from trying. After being rejected for his age, Macon went to work for The Guthrie Boys, a local printer in Washington D.C.

Acquisition information:

Thurston Macon

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Thurston Macon transcript, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_01_0511.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA