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Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
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Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché, director of psychological warfare, and was a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur. Fellers graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.
In September of 1940, as a major, Fellers was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid. After he left Madrid, he became notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents. The tactical information was passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942.
From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.” It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star. Ordered home in July 1942, Fellers participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.
After the war, Fellers played a major role in the occupation of Japan. Among his duties was liaison between HQ and the Imperial Household. Soon after occupation began, he wrote several influential memoranda concerning why it would be advantageous for the occupation, reconstruction of Japan, and long-term US interests to keep the Emperor in place if he was not clearly responsible for war crimes. In 1971, Hirohito conferred on Fellers the Second Order of the Sacred Treasure "in recognition of your long-standing contribution to promoting friendship between Japan and the United States." His role in exonerating Hirohito is the main subject of the 2012 film Emperor.
When Fellers retired in November 1946, he wrote and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952, he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Fellers died of heart failure in Washington D.C. at the age of 77 years old.
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Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
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<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
New York Times obituary article for Gen. Bonner Fellers, October 10, 1973. Viewed July 21, 2021.
<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
Fellers, Bonner Frank, 1896-1973. Bonner Frank Fellers papers, 1915-1994.
Title:
Bonner Frank Fellers papers, 1915-1994.
Speeches and writings, studies, reports, correspondence, memoranda, orders, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American propaganda and military activities in the Pacific Theater during World War II, the occupation of Japan, and postwar conservative political organizations in the United States, especially the Citizens Foreign Aid Committee.
Fellers, Bonner Frank, 1896-1973. Bonner Frank Fellers papers, 1915-1994.
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Fellers, Bonner Frank, 1896-1973
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Bonner Frank Fellers papers 1904-1997
Bonner Frank Fellers papers, 1904-1997
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Bonner Frank Fellers papers 1904-1997
Speeches and writings, studies, reports, correspondence, memoranda, orders, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American propaganda and military activities in the Pacific Theater during World War II, the occupation of Japan, and postwar conservative political organizations in the United States, especially the Citizens Foreign Aid Committee. Described in two groups, first the original accession, then for an addition to the collection in 2003.
ArchivalResource:
59 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box; (24 linear feet)
Longines Wittnauer Watch Company, Inc. Collection. 1951 - 1955. Motion Picture Films of Television Interviews With Significant Newsmakers of the Early 1950s. 1951 - 1955. LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE [WITH BRIG. GEN. BONNER F. FELLERS]
Longines Wittnauer Watch Company, Inc. Collection. 1951 - 1955. Motion Picture Films of Television Interviews With Significant Newsmakers of the Early 1950s. 1951 - 1955. LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE [WITH BRIG. GEN. BONNER F. FELLERS]
Title:
Longines Wittnauer Watch Company, Inc. Collection. 1951 - 1955. Motion Picture Films of Television Interviews With Significant Newsmakers of the Early 1950s. 1951 - 1955. LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE [WITH BRIG. GEN. BONNER F. FELLERS]
TELEVISION INTERVIEW: Frazier Hunt and William Bradford Huie talk with Brig. Gen. Fellers, strategist and psychological warfare expert, on problem of U.S. defenses, military budget, and air supremacy.
Longines Wittnauer Watch Company, Inc. Collection. 1951 - 1955. Motion Picture Films of Television Interviews With Significant Newsmakers of the Early 1950s. 1951 - 1955. LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE [WITH BRIG. GEN. BONNER F. FELLERS]
Clarence Manion's papers are comprised of incoming correspondence and carbon copies of outgoing letters; transcripts of Manion Forum broadcasts, 1954-1979; and publications advocating conservative positions on American domestic and foreign affairs, including monographs written or published by Manion; speeches, news clippings, and other materials. A manuscript of Barry Goldwater's book, Conscience of a Conservative is included. Topics discussed in the collection include advocacy for the Bricker Amendment; activities of the John Birch Society in California and elsewhere; support for Goldwater's presidential campaigns in 1960 and 1964; Manion's appointment to and resignation from the federal Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; Manion's service on the American Bar Association's Committee for the Study of Communist Tactics, Strategy and Objectives; the threat of Communist expansion abroad and internal subversion; U.S. military preparedness; and the extension of the power of the federal government in domestic affairs; Manion's activities as a professor of constitutional law at Notre Dame University, and his businesses, and family. Correspondents include William F. Buckley, Jr., General Bonner Fellers, Barry Goldwater, J. Bracken Lee, J. Fred Schafly, Phyllis Schafly, Paul Talbert, and Robert Welch. The papers not only state Dean Manion's personal views on history and political theory. They also document conservative thought and action in America because of the extraordinary breadth of Manion's contacts on the political right as well as the wide reach of his radio and television programs. Correspondents include personal friends as well as members of the general public who listened to the Manion Forum; public officials and political leaders; and conservative publicists, theoreticians, and organizers.
ArchivalResource:
1 oversize folder.4 sound cassettes. (in box 104).1 sound recording (1 reel). (in box 113).
Consists primarily of correspondence, 1921-1982, with the bulk falling between 1960 and 1962; diaries, 1912-1943; speeches and writings largely relating to economic issues; financial material containing articles and newsclippings about Groseclose and his economic policies as well as publications from the Citizens Foreign Aid Committee and the American Institute for Economic Research; valuations prepared by Groseclose, Williams & Associates; and organizational material from the International Council for Christian Leadership, Washington City Bible Society, and Welfare of the Blind, Inc.
Elgin E. Groseclose (1899-1983) was a writer, professor, specialist in finance, and treasurer for a financial and investment consultant firm. He was also involved in other interest groups that appealed to his deeply religious beliefs. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, financial material, valuations, organizations and photographs.
Correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, clippings and memorabilia of Charles Parsons, bibliophile and conservative polemicist and ideologist. Also included are some papers of Parsons' wife, Mary Elizabeth Curry Parsons, and speeches and writings of friends and associates of Parsons. Most of the papers are related to Parsons' advocacy and support of various conservative and anti-communist causes and issues, with the bulk of the material covering the period 1934-1965. Important correspondents include Lawrence Dennis, Gerald L. K. Smith, Dan Smoot, Harry Elmer Barnes, William F. Buckley, Jr., Booth Tarkington, Robert Welch, Hamilton Fish, Martin Dies, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert A. Taft, and Harold Velde. Also included is correspondence with many other members of Congress.
ArchivalResource:
23 linear feet (52 boxes, 1 folio)
The Louis Martin Sears Papers, 1911-1960 (inclusive), 1928-1958 (bulk).
Sears, Louis Martin, 1885-. The Louis Martin Sears Papers, 1911-1960 (inclusive), 1928-1958 (bulk).
Title:
The Louis Martin Sears Papers, 1911-1960 (inclusive), 1928-1958 (bulk).
The Louis Martin Sears Papers (1911-1960; 4 cubic ft.) document the professional career of historian and author Louis Martin Sears. Types of materials in the collection include writings, speeches, correspondence, printed material, and a photograph of Sears. The bulk of the papers consists of typescripts or manuscripts for various articles, speeches, books, or book reviews written by Sears. The Papers are comprised of the following series: I. Writings by Sears, 1911-1960; II. Correspondence, 1936-1959; III. Research Materials, 1935-1957; IV. Printed Material, 1922-1958; V. Photographic Material, undated. The Writings series includes journal articles and reprints, typescripts, books, critical reviews, speeches, commencement addresses, talks for conference proceedings, course papers, essays, and memoirs. Also included in this series are two sets of meeting minutes of the Parlor Club taken by Sears in 1946. The Correspondence series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence primarily relating to Sears' various writing projects. The Research Materials series includes Sears' notes and references to sources used by him in his writings and research. The Printed Material series includes journal articles, pamphlets, and other assorted materials given to Sears or collected by him. The Photographic Material series consists of one photographic print of Sears, undated.
Correspondence, speeches and writings, academic and military files, family papers, photographs and slides, and other papers, relating to Parrish's military and academic careers. Much of the collection relates to his post as commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala., where he was responsible for training the Army Air Forces' first African American pilots during World War II. Other topics include Defense Dept. politics, Vietnam Conflict, Women's Army Corps air pilots, and Parrish's training at the Air Command Staff School and Air War College, duties with NATO Defence College in Paris, graduate work at Rice University, and tenure at Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex., as professor of military history. Family papers include diaries and writings of his brother, Garland C. Parrish. Correspondents include Adrian Bosch, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Bonner Fellers, Alfred Goldberg, Alfred M. Gruenther, John T. Hazard, F.D. Henderson, Lena Horne, Austin Hoyt, Langston Hughes, Richard H. Kohn, Pam A. McClellan, Frederick D. Patterson, Donald B. Robinson, and Roy Wilkins.
Michigan born lawyer, judge, politician and diplomat, served as Detroit Recorder's Court Judge, Mayor of Detroit, Governor Genral of the Phillipines, Governor of Michigan, U. S. Attorney General and U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Papers include extensive correspondence, subject files, Supreme court case files, scrapbooks, photographs and other material.
ArchivalResource:
166 microfilm rolls (77 linear feet), 21 linear feet (not microfilmed), 7 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders
Parsons, Charles, 1889-. Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965 (inclusive).
Title:
Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965 (inclusive).
Correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, clippings and memorabilia of Charles Parsons, bibliophile and conservative polemicist and ideologist. Also included are some papers of Parsons' wife, Mary Elizabeth Curry Parsons, and speeches and writings of friends and associates of Parsons. Most of the papers are related to Parsons' advocacy and support of various conservative and anti-communist causes and issues, with the bulk of the material covering the period 1934-1965. Important correspondents include Lawrence Dennis, Gerald L. K. Smith, Dan Smoot, Harry Elmer Barnes, William F. Buckley, Jr., Booth Tarkington, Robert Welch, Hamilton Fish, Martin Dies, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert A. Taft, and Harold Velde. Also included is correspondence with many other members of Congress.
ArchivalResource:
23 linear ft. (52 boxes, 1 folio)
Parsons, Charles, 1889-. Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965 (inclusive).
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Fellers, Bonner Frank, 1896-1973
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Noel Francis Parrish Papers 1894-1987 (bulk 1930-1987)
Noel Francis Parrish Papers, 1894-1987, (bulk 1930-1987)
Title:
Noel Francis Parrish Papers 1894-1987 (bulk 1930-1987)
Air force general and university professor. Correspondence, speeches and writings, academic and military files, family papers, photographs and slides, and other papers documenting Parrish's military and academic careers, including as commander of Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) where he was responsible for training the Army Air Force's first African-American pilots during World War II.
ArchivalResource:
29,500 items; 58 containers plus 1 oversize and 2 classified; 29.5 linear feet
Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Bonner F. Fellers.
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Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Bonner F. Fellers.
This Official Military Personnel File includes records from the following folders: Service Documents (November 1918 - June 1974); Correspondence (August 1922 - June 1959); Awards, Decorations, & Commendations (June 1927 - May 1947); Efficiency/Fitness Reports (November 1919 - July 1946); Medical Records (September 1944); Photographs & Negatives (February 1924); Newspaper Clippings (April 1938 - April 1939).
Parsons, Charles, 1889-. Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965 (inclusive).
Title:
Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965 (inclusive).
Correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, clippings and memorabilia of Charles Parsons, bibliophile and conservative polemicist and ideologist. Also included are some papers of Parsons' wife, Mary Elizabeth Curry Parsons, and speeches and writings of friends and associates of Parsons. Most of the papers are related to Parsons' advocacy and support of various conservative and anti-communist causes and issues, with the bulk of the material covering the period 1934-1965. Important correspondents include Lawrence Dennis, Gerald L. K. Smith, Dan Smoot, Harry Elmer Barnes, William F. Buckley, Jr., Booth Tarkington, Robert Welch, Hamilton Fish, Martin Dies, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Robert A. Taft, and Harold Velde. Also included is correspondence with many other members of Congress.
ArchivalResource:
23 linear ft. (52 boxes, 1 folio)
<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
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<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
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