Roscoe Robinson Papers 1945-1993 (bulk 1951-1993)

Danforth, William H. (William Henry), 1926-

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Physician (b. 1926). Danforth received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1951. After an internship and residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Danforth joined the department of Medicine of the Washington University School of Medicine in 1957. In 1960 Danforth was appointed assistant professor of Medicine, and in 1965 associate professor. From 1965 to 1971 he served as vice chancellor for Medical Affairs. Danforth was appointed Chancellor of Washington University in 1971, a pos...

Abshire, David M. (David Manaker)

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Vessey, John William, 1922-

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Robinson, Roscoe, 1928-1993

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Paratrooper and first African-American four star general; Roscoe Robinson, Jr. From the description of Roscoe Robinson papers, 1945-1993 (bulk 1951-1993). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979767 Biographical Note 1928, Oct. 11 Born, St. Louis, Mo. 1951 B. S., United State Military ...

Hamlet, James F.

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Gavin, James M. (James Maurice), 1907-1990

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James Maurice Gavin (b. Mar. 22, 1907-d. Feb. 23, 1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his commission in the infantry from West Point in 1929, and later served as an instructor at the Academy in 1940 and 1941. He advanced to the rank of brigadier general in September 1943 and served as Assistant Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, parachuting with troops during the Normandy D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944. He then served as the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Di...

Abshire, David M.

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Legere, Laurence J.

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United States Military Academy

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West Point, N.Y., was originally utilized as a strategic defense location during the American Revolution. West Point is geographically located on a 100 ft. plateau overlooking the Hudson River. After the American victory Congress created a Corps of Invalids (veterans) that were transferred to West Point for the purpose of instructing candidates for commission. In 1802 Congress legally established the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Academy produced many leaders of American forc...

Nagy, Ernest A.

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Becton, Julius W. (Julius Wesley), 1926-

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Julius Wesley Becton, Jr. (b. June 29, 1926, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army, was also a government official and educator following his retirement from the Army in 1983. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1944 and served in World War II, the Korean War, and in Vietnam, and commanded VII Corps in Europe during the Cold War. While in the service, he graduated from college and also earned a master's degree in Economics. Beginning in 1984 he held key positions with US AID ...

Weyand, Alexander M. (Alexander Mulqueen), 1928-

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Corcoran, E. F.

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Ridgeway, Matthew B.

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University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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The Pittsburgh Renaissance Project (The Stanton Belfour Oral History Collection) was initiated and carried out by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in 1971-1973 with funds from the Buhl Foundation. The purpose of the collection, as outlined in the funding proposal, was the "...creating [of] a new research source a living record of the Pittsburgh Renaissance obtained from the oral reminiscences of Pittsburghers' own lives and activities which would s...

United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd

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Cocklin, Robert F.

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Thurman, J. R.

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Denton, Jeremiah A.

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Denton, a native of Mobile, Alabama, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 and served as a U.S. Navy pilot from 1946 to 1977. On 18 July 1965, his plane was shot down over North Vietnam and he was held as a prisoner-of-war until February 1973. He retired from the Navy in 1977 at the grade of Rear Admiral. In 1980, Denton was elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, the first Republican elected to statewide office since Reconstruction. He was among the Republican sen...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

National War College (U.S.)

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Blanchard, George S. (George Samuel), 1920-2006

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George Samuel Blanchard is an United States Army officer who was born in 1920; attended American University in 1938-1940 and graduated from the United States (U.S.) Military Academy in 1944. He received his M.S. from Syracuse University in 1948. He advanced through the grades to Lieutenant General and became the commanding general of 82nd Airborne Division; commander-in-chief, U.S. Army, Europe and Seventh Army and commander of Central Army Group, NAT0. From the description of The Ge...

DANFORTH, WILLIAM H.

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Bowers, Emmet W.

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