Irwin R. Blacker papers 1943-1944

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Irwin R. Blacker papers 1943-1944

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Report, and photographs, relating to United States Army engineering construction and reconstruction work in Italy, 1943-1944. Includes photographs of war damage and of engineering work in Italy, and of American troops and airplanes in North Africa.

1 manuscript box; (0.4 linear feet)

eng,

Hoover Institution Archives

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Hoover Institution Archives

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Blacker, Irwin R.

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Irwin R. Blacker (1919-1985) was an American author during the twentieth century. He was born in Cleveland and earned a Ph.D. from Case-Western Reserve in 1983. Blacker wrote a number of novels between the 1950s and 1970s, including "Westering" (1958), "Taos" (1959), "Standing on a Drum" (1968), and "The Middle of the Fire" (1971). He also wrote a number of non-fiction works, including "Behind the Lines: Twenty-Eight Stories of Irregular Warfare" (1956), "The Old West in Fact" (1961...