Reserve Officers Training Corps, Yale University, Records 1917-1972

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Reserve Officers Training Corps, Yale University, Records 1917-1972

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The records consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia documenting the activities and operations of the Army and Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Yale.

2.5 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

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The Yale Battery was the first Army training program established at Yale in 1915. Eventually Yale had four batteries which became the Connecticut 10th Field Artillery of the National Guard. In 1916, Yale replaced its batteries with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and the Yale Naval Training Unit (originally the Motor Boat Patrol and later known as NROTC). In the spring of 1918, existing ROTC programs were suspended and replaced with the Student Army Training Corps (SATC). The program ...