John P. Dieter Papers. 1941 - 1945. Photographs

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John P. Dieter Papers. 1941 - 1945. Photographs

1942-1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1626712

This is a photograph album compiled by John Dieter during his military service in World War II beginning with training camp at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Additional subjects include the activities of the U.S. Third Army in European Theater of Operations, concentration camps, troops engaged in combat, liberated towns, captured enemy forces and civilian and military casualties. Ephemera, informal snapshots, and picture postcards of Europe are also included in the album. A portrait of General George S. Patton and memorial items relating to his death and funeral are also included.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6410202

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Dieter, John P. (John Palmer), 1915-1999

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John Palmer Dieter was born on April 20,1915 in Abilene, Kansas, the son of Dr. Johann N. and Sierra Nevada Palmer Dieter. John graduated from Abilene High School in 1932, and attended Kemper Military School at Booneville, Missouri from 1932-1933. He then attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated with honors and an AB degree in 1936 with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Economics. He then went to Yale University Law School in New Haven, Connecticut; graduating in 19...

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 ...