Records of the Army Air Forces, ca. 1902-1964. Photographs Relating to the 41st Service Group.

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Records of the Army Air Forces, ca. 1902-1964. Photographs Relating to the 41st Service Group.

1941-1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/76606268

This series contains photographs that document the Army Air Force 41st Service Group in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, and France during World War II. The images largely document the 41st Service Group personnel repairing military airplanes and airplane parts in a variety of settings, mostly at airfields. The images also show various aspects of other day-to-day activities of the service group, such as medical care, communications, loading and unloading supplies and equipment, and recreation. Of particular note are images of entertainers Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Frances Langford. There are also images of visits by military officers including Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton. Other officers include Colonel Llewellyn Charles Howell, the commanding officer of the 41st Service Group, and General Mark W. Clark, the commanding officer of the Fifth Army which played a major role in the Italian campaign from 1943 to 1945. There is also a folder of captions that tell a story based on the images. Both the photographs and the captions were originally housed in a photograph album compiled by Colonel Howell. Photographers include Reed McCaskey, W.P. Burke, Eldred M. Stephenson, William M. McMorrow, Jr., Leon J. Jablonski, James P. Dougherty, Charles E. Morgan, Oliver Porter, and Harry Dietch. This series also includes a bound history of the 41st Service Group as well as another bound volume with photocopies of correspondence about citations and recommendations relating to Colonel Howell and the 41st Service Group. The bound history contains a detailed description of the 41st Service Group's role in World War II, portraits of many of the 41st Service Group military personnel, and also reproductions of some of the photographs previously described in this series. Additional persons included in this series include Theodore G. Kershaw, John Kenneth Cannon, Ira Eaker, Henry Harley Arnold, John Lesslie Hall, and Geoffrey Keyes.

5 linear inches

eng, Latn

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...