Brown, Wilburt Scott, 1900-1968
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Marine Corps officer.
From the description of Reminiscences of Wilburt Scott Brown : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419314
Wilbert Scott Brown was born on 20 December 1900, in Beverly, Massachusetts, and attended Holliston High School and Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He was a United States Marine Corps general who was a combat veteran of both World War I and World War II, the Nicaraguan campaign, and the Korean War. He served in the Marine Corps for thirty-five years, from 1918 to 1953.
After retiring from the military, Brown entered the University of Alabama as a junior and graduated in 1963 with a PhD in History. He was part of the the University of Alabama History Department from 1963 until his death on 17 December 1968 at the VA Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
From the guide to the Wilburt Scott Brown papers MSS. 0221., 1960-1992, (W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama)
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