Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. INVASION PICTURES [AIRBORNE, ETC.]
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...
Frederick, Robert Tryon, 1907-1970
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King, Ernest Joseph, 1878-1956
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Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946
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Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". He also had the nickname "Uncle Joe." Distrust of his Allies and a lack of resources meant Stilwell was continually forced to improvise. He famously differed as to strategy, ground troops versus air power, with his subordinate, Claire Chennault, who had the ear of Gen...
Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981
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Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, holding the rank of General of the Army. Bradley was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War. Born in Randolph County, Missouri, Bradley worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenh...
Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950
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Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the only U.S. Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold was also the founder of Project RAND, which evolved into one of the wo...
Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976
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British army officer. From the description of Note of Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454594 ...
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...
Marshall, George, 1965-
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Keyes, Geoffrey, 1888-1967
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Keyes, Geoffrey (1888-1967) was born in Fort Bayard, New Mexico. He received his commission in the cavalry from West Point in 1913, and graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1926 and the Ecole Superieure de Guerre in Paris in 1933. He was head of the tactics department at the Cavalry School from 1933 to 1936, and graduated from the Army War College in 1937. He was executive officer of 13th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Brigade in 1938 and 1939, and served as chief of the supply and trans...
Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979
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1916 midshipman; 1918 1st lieutenant; 1932 commander; 1942 chief of combined operations; 1942 acting vice-admiral; 1943 acting admiral and supreme commander designate, south east Asia; 1946 rear-admiral; 1947 Viceroy of India; 1947-1948 Govenor-general of India; 1949 vice-admiral; 1950 4th sea lord of the Admiralty; 1954 1st sea lord of the Admiralty; 1956 admiral of the fleet; 1959-1965 chief of defense staff; 1965 Governor of the Isle of Wight. Honours: 1920 MVO; 1922...
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958
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Eugenio Pacelli. From the description of Autograph signature as Secretary of State, to a typed letter : addressed to Belle Greene, on behalf of Pope Pius XI, 1937 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617598 ...
Smuts, Jan Christiaan, 1870-1950
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South African statesman. From the description of Typed letter signed : to Sir Sydney Cockerell, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665092 Jan Christiaan Smuts was a guerilla commander in the Boer War, led forces against the German in World War I, and commanded South African forces in World War II. He was Prime Minister of South Africa, 1919-1924 and 1939-1948, and helped draft the United Nations charter. From the description of Walt Whitman : a study in th...
Harmon, Millard Fillmore, 1888-1945
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Millard Fillmore Harmon (b. Jan. 19, 1889, San Francisco, Calif.-d. Feb. 26, 1945), U.S. Army officer, graduated from West Point in 1912 and earned his wings in 1916. He served with the 1st Aero Squadron during the Mexico expedition and flew with a French aviation unit in combat in World War I. A graduate of Command and General Staff School and the Army War College, he became Chief of the Air Staff, Army Air Force, commanding general of U.S. Army Forces South Pacific, then Army Air Forces Pacifi...
Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, Viscount, 1883-1963
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Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (b. July 23, 1883, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France-d. June 17, 1963, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, U.K.), Field Marshal in the British Army, was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and is regarded as one of the chief architects of the Allies' victory. He was educated in France, and, after attending the Royal Military Academy, was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery. During World War I, this flu...
Gruenther, Alfred M. (Alfred Maximilian), 1899-1983
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Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (1899-1983) was a military officer, educator, bridge expert, and author. Nicknamed "the Brain" by colleagues, Gruenther was respected worldwide for his extraordinary analytical and strategic skills as a staff officer and soldier-diplomat. Gruenther's career of nearly forty years in the U.S. Army reached a pinnacle in 1951, when he was named chief of staff at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters and became, at fifty-three years of age, the youngest fo...
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 ...
Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963
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Merrill, Frank (Frank Dow), 1903-1955
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Frank Dow Merrill was born on December 4, 1903. Merrill enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1922. He later attended the U.S.M.A. at West Point where he graduated in 1929. While serving as a military attache in Tokyo, Merrill learned Chinese and Japanese. Merrill served as intelligence officer to General Douglas McArthur just prior to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Shortly thereafter, Merrill became an aid to Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell in the China-Burma-India Theater. In October 1943,...
