Benjamin W. Gally miscellany 1945-1949

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Benjamin W. Gally miscellany 1945-1949

Photocopies of an inventory of items released by the United States government to the Chinese National Palace Museum in Peking, 1946; and photocopies of letters from a British consular official in Tientsin, describing the communist occupation of Tientsin, 1949.

1 folder.; (0.1 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6657878

Hoover Institution Archives

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Gally, Benjamin W.

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Biographical/Historical Note Brigadier general, United States Marine Corps. From the guide to the Benjamin W. Gally miscellany, 1945-1949, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...