The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School

BIOGRAPHIES - Class of 1944
Philip Manhard

Biography: Ambassador Manhard’s

Papers Offered to the Archives

The papers of career Foreign Service Officer, Philip Manhard (1921-1998), JLS graduate 1944, have been offered to the Archives by his son, Richard. Philip W. Manhard received his BA from USC, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1943, after which he attended the Japanese Language School. He was an Officer in the USMCR from 1944-1946. He joined the Foreign Service in China in 1948, the first of such field inductions. He served in Peking and Tienstsin during the fall of China between 1948 and 1951. His next assignment was Pusan and Seoul, 1951-1953, during the Korean War. He married Margaret Booth in 1953 and was assigned to Tokyo from 1953-1958. He was appointed to the East Asian Bureau, State Department in Washington, DC in 1959-62 and 1964-67. In between, he was deputy political advisor, CINCPAC, Honolulu. He was province senior advisor in Hue, South Vietnam in 1967 and 68, where he was captured by the NVA and held as POW from 1968-1973. He received the Award for Valor, State Department in 1973 and was assigned member of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, State Department, 1973-74. Philip W. Manhard was appointed Ambassador to Mauritius, 1974-1976. He told his three children that a thread ran through his career – he was held prisoner by the Chinese, the Koreans, and the North Vietnamese: the last being the longest 3 year tour he ever took.

These pages are dedicated the history of the graduates of the US Navy Japanese / Oriental Language School, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1942-1946 and also attended USC.

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