Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Army, 1903 - 2007. Correspondence and Reports, 1/1949 - 2/1949.

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Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Army, 1903 - 2007. Correspondence and Reports, 1/1949 - 2/1949.

1949

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This series primarily consists of correspondence of the committee. Included are reading files and reports, some supplemented with data tables, charts, and graphs, on the mission and operations of the National Guard Bureau; on U.S. Army Reserve and Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) affairs, by James Forrestal; Army logistics, mobilization requirements, and personnel administration. Brief biographical sketches of committee members are included for chairman James F. Byrnes, General Mark W. Clark, General Manton S. Eddy, General Leonard T. Gerow, Edward S. Greenbaum, Hanford MacNider, Major General Ellard A. Walsh, General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Charles Edward Wilson, Julius Ochs Adler, editor of the New York Times, and other members. Two bulletins published by the Public Information Division are included, with press releases, and many newspaper clippings.

1 linear foot, 4 linear inches

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Wedemeyer, Albert Coady, 1897-1989

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