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Carl Lyren Peleliu collection, 1944-1998, Date accessioned: 2019-09-19

 

Summary

Creator:
Lyren, Carl, 1925-2003
Extent:
4.5 Linear Feet
3 folders Nine Legal-sized standard boxes (one containing a smaller box with photographs and four books), and three oversize folders located in oversize box 11.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Carl Lyren Peleliu collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_18_0033

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Carl Lyren who served in the United States Marine Corps in 2nd Marine Division the Pacific Theater. The materials of this collection are made up of maps, unclassified documents from both Japanese and U.S. forces, books, letters, interviews with veterans, photographs, newspaper clippings, and personal notes made by Carl Lyren in his research in writing on the battle of Peleliu, also in this collection is the original manuscript of the publication Dogged Courage: The Struggle for Peleliu, 1944.

Biographical / historical:

Born on November 4, 1925, U.S. Marine Marine Corps Sergeant Carl Lyren first served in the Asiatic-Pacific theater during World War II from 1943-1946 with Company C, 2nd Amtrac (Amphibious tractor) Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. He served on Saipan and Iheyajima, and survived a Japanese Kamikaze attack on LST 884 off Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He reenlisted in the Corps during the Korean Conflict from 1950-1952. He studied at the University of Indiana, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1954 with a Master's degree in International Relations. Carl Lyren was a writer all his life, and was employed at many major advertising agencies in Chicago and New York, also specializing in food writing and authoring several cookbooks. Also among his publications include French Cooking for the American Table (with Rene Verdon), 365 Ways to Cook Chicken, and Dogged Courage: The Struggle for Peleliu, 1944. Lyren passed away on June 12, 2003.


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], Carl Lyren Peleliu collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_18_0033

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