Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force, 1954-1956, was self-published by the author in 2009 and features book design by Morgan Ryan-Smith. Following an opening chapter recalling his upbringing and college years in Corvallis, the volume primarily recounts the two years that Coleman spent in Japan as an Air Force Base Contracting Officer. In this, the book specifically focuses on work that the United States armed forces conducted while helping to rehabilitate Japan from the destructive aftermath of the Second World War. Coleman's memoir likewise traces his own maturation as a young man living and working in an environment that was radically different from the Oregon that he had known growing up. As noted in the memoir's introduction, which is written by Chuck Thompson, the book includes "anecdotes of Japan and Cold War Asia [that] bring to life everything from American B-29 spy planes sparring with Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Japan, to explorations of the hidden realm of Japanese bathhouses, hostess bars, hot springs resorts, and off-beat places..."
Two USAF sergeants looking at radar screen with Santa and reindeer. Standard publicity stock photograph used for Christmas Eve reports of Santa being picked up on military radar. The radar equipment in the photograph gives some indication to the era, probably mid-1960s. "For immediate release: Flash! U. F. O. sighted! Powerful radars of the Portland Air Defense Sector have begun receiving scope returns on a strange unidentified flying object in the vicinity of the North Pole and headed south. U. S. Air Force radarmen Airman First Class Jerry A. Dickinson (left) from Oakland, Calif. and Technical Sergeant John C. Candelaria of New York were the first to spot the U. F. O. Huge digital computers of the Air Defense Command indicate the aerial 'invader' will arrive over (name of community) at midnight on December 25th."
U. S. Air Force, dated July 21, 1952. Beaver Engraving Co. stamp and grease pencil size markings on reverse. Unidentified USAF Colonel, standard uniform shirt with tie tucked. Officer's lapel pins in good detail as is his pilot wings over left pocket.
Stock military photo, stamped on reverse: "Photo by United Technology Corp. (Photographic Dept.) Sunnyvale, Calif." No date listed. Photograph of a USAF missile rocket motor being tested in bunker on the side of a wooded hill. Photo was probably used for an article in the Oregon Stater, or for USAF ROTC training.