July 1931.  "Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap," by Sgt. Major C. B. Proctor, The Leatherneck, v. 14, no. 7, July 1931, p. 7.   xxx

July 1931.  "Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap," by Sgt. Major C. B. Proctor, The Leatherneck, v. 14, no. 7, July 1931, p. 8.   xxx

ca. 1918.  Identity Card of Lt. Col. Robert H. Dunlap, American Expeditionary Forces.

January 5, 1928.  "Maj. Gen. Lejeune [To Send] New Marines to Nicaragua [ . . . ] Quantico Quota [ . . . ] — Detachment, 100 Strong, Will Join Battalion [ . . . ] Hampton Roads—Buddies of Slain Men Declare 'Grudge' War", The Washington Post.   xxx

December 21, 1928.   "Recommendation that Col. R. H. Dunlap, U.S.M.C. be promoted to rank of Brigadier General," from Commanding General Logan Feland, Managua, to the Major General Commandant, USMC, Washington D.C.   xxx

October 16, 1929.   "Medalla de Mérito" to Col. Robert H. Dunlap, U.S.M.C., from President José M. Moncada.   xxx

November 22, 1929.   Acting Secretary of the Navy to Brig. General Robert H. Dunlap, conferring the Distinguished Service Medal.   xxx

May 24, 1931.  Letter of condolence from leading citizens of Ocotal to Sr. Coronel F. L. Bradman, Managua, p. 1.  Signed by J. Pastor Lovo, José Francisco Moncada, Charlos Chamorro Ch., Ignacio Calderón, Daniel Talavera, Fernando Jarquín, Emilio Gutiérrez G., Maximo Gutiérrez G.

May 24, 1931.  Letter of condolence from leading citizens of Ocotal to Sr. Coronel F. L. Bradman, Managua, p. 2.  Signed by José A. Gutiérrez, Luis A. Jarquin, T. Gutiérrez G., Salvador Paguaga, C. Gutiérrez G., E. Lacayo F., E. Albir, Octavio Lobo, C. Vilchez, Francisco Jarquín V., Ramon Lovo.

May 24, 1931.  Letter of condolence from leading citizens of Ocotal to Mistress Robert H. Dunlap.  Signed by Octavio Lovo, José Francisco Moncada, Charlos Chamorro Ch., J. Pastor Lovo.

October 1933.   Clipping from The Leatherneck with photo of "the Late Gen. R. H. Dunlap".  xxx

1.  Photos of Marines in Nicaragua, 1928-1929

Marines in the field (no caption, no date). 

Marines in the field (no caption, no date). 

Marines in the field; a lone Marine looks through binoculars in the foreground, while a cluster of Marines stands in the distance (no caption, no date).

Marines in the field (no caption, no date). 

Marines in the field next to a river (no caption, no date). 

Marines in the field (no caption, no date). 

Col. Dunlap with 11 other Marines posing at the "Castil-Ruiz Farm" (caption typed red ink above figures). 

Col. Dunlap in Ocotal conferring with other officers.  Caption reads:  "self just arriving from S. J. de Tel [San Juan de Telpaneca] after 12 days later".

"Guardia Nacional," in or near Ocotal.   Despite the caption, the photo shows up to five military units & grades & types:  (1)  Most men have ribbons around their hats, suggesting they were Voluntarios (as seen in other photos of the Voluntarios).  (2)  Two US Marine Corps officers stand in the rear (at left, more leaning on the wheel of an ox-cart than fully standing; at right, with his arm draped around a mule; both have officer emblems on their hats).  (3) It appears that one US Marine is kneeling along with the other Nicaraguans (the fellow directly front of the mule, without an emblem on his hat).  (4)  At least two Guardias Nacionales, and perhaps more (directly in line with the Marine with his arm around the mule) as indicated by the emblems on their upper sleeves.  (5)  One sailor from the US Navy, suggested by his white hat, in the rear and also kneeling.  (6)  At far right, kneeling, seemingly intentionally separated from the others, is what appears to be a civilian scout or guide.  We might even add (7), in the far background, where a boy stands, watching.  The photographer makes (8).

Marine Corps band seated under tree in park, probably Ocotal (no caption, no date). 

Marines in a foot-race, probably Ocotal.  The moment after the "go!"  gunshot in a relay foot-race of US Marines holding batons, with other Marines in the background watching (no caption, no date).

Marines playing polo with brooms in Ocotal.  Polo ball rolls toward the camera down Ocotal's main street, as horsemen race toward it, brooms raised high & ready to strike.  Dunlap was a polo aficionado (no caption, no date).

Col. Dunlap seated & posing with three other officers, Ocotal (no caption, no date). 

Col. Dunlap standing & posing with the same three officers, Ocotal (no caption, no date). 

Col. Dunlap in center, holding riding crop, posing with nine other officers in the central square in Ocotal, with Capt. Buse to Dunlap's right (two prints of the same photo, no caption, no date). 

Col. Dunlap in center, posing with four other officers in Ocotal, with Capt. Buse to Dunlap's right (second from left; no caption, no date).

Col. Dunlap in Ocotal (detail of photo above; no caption, no date). 

Col. Dunlap in center front, posing with 20 other officers, all wearing hats, in front of bullet hole-ridden wall of building in Ocotal (no caption, no date). 

Same group as above:  Col. Dunlap in center front, holding riding crop, posing with 20 other officers in front of the same bullet-hole ridden wall of building in Ocotal, now with hats removed, with Capt. Buse to Dunlap's right in front row (no caption, no date). 

2.  Photos of the Nicaraguan campo, 1928-1929

Two men sawing a timber into two pieces with 2-man saw, with one man standing underneath an elevated timber secured in a scaffold anchored laterally with long poles.  A rope-like item in the left foreground obscures part of the field of vision (no caption, no date). 

Coffee-drying racks on a coffee farm, with horsemen in background (no caption, no date). 

3.  Photos of Ocotal & Ocotal Aviation Field, 1928-1929

Ocotal aviation field.  Caption on rear:  "Golf Nicaragua??  Note my form - won the tournament [beat] Sandy & $4"

Ocotal aviation field.  Caption on rear: "Golf on the aviation field."

Panoramic view of Ocotal, ca. 1928 (no caption, no date). 

Ocotal, ca. early 1928.  Caption on rear:  "Where the 'Battle of Ocotal' was fought."  Staff sergeant stands guard in Ocotal's central square adjacent to the Marine Corps garrison.

Aeroplane parked on the Ocotal aviation field, with US Marine emblem and pilot waving at camera (no caption, no date). 

Posing with civilians on the Ocotal aviation field.  Three Nicaraguan women, including one with flight jacket and eye goggles, posing with four US Marines, Capt. Buse at left (no caption, no date). 

Aeroplane taking off from the Ocotal aviation field (no caption, no date). 

Lt. Col. Rossell posing before airplane on the Ocotal aviation field.  Caption on rear reads:  "Lt Col Rossell".  That would be Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Joseph A. Rossell, who served for 17 months in the Northern Area in 1928-1929 as Regimental Executive of the 11th Regiment, planning & executing various operations against the Sandinista rebels when the Area Commander was absent. 

Gen. Logan Feland & wife at the Ocotal aviation field.  Five Marine Corps officers, with Col. Dunlap (second from left), next to Gen. Logan Feland (center), next to a woman wearing an elegant dress & a pearl-like necklace & a leather flight hat with ear-flaps, and holding a large bouquet of flowers — very probably Mrs. Feland — pose in front of a parked airplane (no caption, no date). 

Gen. Logan Feland & wife at the Ocotal aviation field; she holds the same bouquet of flowers as in photo above, but her headgear has changed (airplane A-8018; no caption, no date). 

Gen. Feland & Col. Dunlap saluting on the Ocotal  aviation field.  That is, in any case, who it appears to be.  Two other Marines, their backs to the camera, return the salute in the foreground, with the tail of the airplane visible at far left (no caption, no date). 

Ocotal aviation field.  Six Marine Corps officers pose before an aeroplane, none of whom look like Dunlap (no caption, no date). 

Posing with civilians on the Ocotal aviation field.  Caption on rear:  "Sra Carmen de Mantilla, Sra Angela de Aguicia."  Col. Dunlap stands in the center of a group of 20 people:  Col. Dunlap; three other Marine Corps officers (including Capt. Buse at far right); seven civilian men (including Dr. Bernardo Sotomayor, 2nd from left in white suit & glasses holding hat); six women; and three children — all posing before an airplane on the Ocotal airfield.  Col. Dunlap's hands are placed on the shoulders of a small girl standing in front of him; he is flanked by two women whose names are likely those inscribed on the rear.  A fascinating photograph.

Posing with civilians on the Ocotal aviation field.  Caption on rear:  "1. Bertha Lovo. 2. Dr. Bernardo Sotomayor. 3. Sra. Soledad Moncada. 4. Col. Dunlap. 5. Sra. Isabel Sotomayor. 6. Capt. Buse. 7. Srta. Rosa Mantilla."

Posing with civilians on the Ocotal aviation field.  Ten people (five Marines, four civilian men, and one woman), with Col. Dunlap at center, pose in front of two automobiles with building in background (no caption, no date). 

Ocotal aviation field.  Four officers stand in formation and look ahead toward an ongoing special event, Col. Dunlap at far left, inside a roped-off area, separated from a crowd of civilians and Marines, and parked automobiles, on the other side of the rope, apparently awaiting the arrival of a prominent person at the airfield, probably Gen. Logan Feland & his wife (no caption, no date). 

Dunlap's horse.   Caption on rear:  "Dunlap Nicaragua.  My horse - the first in the country - Think [I will] bring him home for a [child]. Has carried me average of 20 miles a day for 10 days & not shown it much"  (no date).

Col. Dunlap and Carmen de Chamorro, Ocotal aviation field, 31 May 1929.  Caption on rear: "Para mi mejor amigo el Coronel Dunlap:  Con mucho cariño, Carmen de Chamorro, Ocotal, Mayo 31 de 1929."

Aeroplane, Marines & civilians next to a large lake — probably Lake Managua (no caption, no date).

Col. Dunlap & Capt. Buse with two other officers seated at table under tent next to adobe building, with Marine standing in doorway, probably adjacent to Ocotal aviation field.  

4.  Photos of Nicaraguans & of Sandinista Rebels, 1928-1929

Short film in seven still-shots.  Among the first films ever made of the Nicaraguan countryside; shows a campesino leading a mule team down a street in a town (probably Ocotal, early 1928).

Rebeldes Sandinistas explorando el campo de Las Segovias, 13 de Mayo de 1928.   Same photograph that appears in the WILBURT S. BROWN and other collections, this one also of very high quality.  Caption, written in lower left, reads:  "Explorando el campo el 13 de Mayo de 1928."  Captured from the rebels.

Sandinista rebels posing & brandishing their weapons, ca. 1928-29.  Same photograph that appears in other MCRC collections, and in USNA1 and 2, with Ismael Peralta at far right.  Very good quality.  Captured from the rebels.

Rebel soldiers in semi-circular formation.  Captured from the rebels.

Two men on horseback theatrically facing off with rifles in front of an elaborate structure made of timbers and stones — what looks to be a bridge of some kind, with barbed-wire fencing running along the length of the top part of the structure.  A puzzling & fascinating photograph, also found in other collections, this copy of very high quality.  Captured from the rebels?

Rebel soldiers posing in the field.  Captured from the rebels.

Sandinista General Manual María Jirón Ruano, prisoner, Ocotal, February 3, 1929.   Caption on rear:  "General Manuel Maria Jiron, Captured by Lt. Hanneken's patrol Feb. 3, 1929.  [Handwritten:]  From Dunlaps folder, photos, Nicaragua".  Yet another photograph, in a slightly different instant & from a slightly different angle, of this humiliating moment in Jirón Ruano's life.  See TOP 100 PAGE 27.

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