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Short, Dewey, 1898-1979. The Dewey Short papers, 1917-1980.

Title: The Dewey Short papers, 1917-1980.

Contains the following types of materials: oral history, speeches, newspaper articles. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: 1930s, World War II (WWII) -- United States (U.S.) Entry, European Theater of Operation (ETO), Pacific, 1946 - 1950, 1950s. Contains information pertaining to the following military organizations: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Army. General description of the collection: The Dewey Short papers include a memoir of his association with the military when he was a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee and Assistant Secretary of the Army. Also describes his views on fiscal restraint, peacetime conscription and concentration camps at the close of WWII.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47197465 View

Robert Frederick Sink Papers, 1908-1967, undated

Title: Robert Frederick Sink Papers, 1908-1967, undated

Papers (1908-1967, undated) pertaining to the military career and personal life of Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink (1905-1965), a graduate of West Point, a pioneer in the use of airborne warfare, who commanded the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army Airborne Corps, during World War II, 1942-1945, participating in the Allied Invasion of Normandy (1944) and the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium (1944-1945); and served as Chief of Staff of the RYUKUS command based on Okinawa, Japan (1949); as Assistant Commander of the 7th Infantry Division in Korea (1951); as a member of the Joint Airborne Troop Board at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (1954); and as commander of the Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) and the 18th Airborne (1958); he was promoted to lieutenant general, in 1959, and took command of the U.S. Army in the Caribbean, a post he held until he retired in 1961 due to poor health; he died in 1965; the collection consists of correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, photographs & printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 0.55 Cubic Feet, 269 items, 1 archival box, 3 oversized folders

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0255 View