Frank Otto Bowman Papers, 1939-1959

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Frank Otto Bowman Papers, 1939-1959

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, notes, military maps and charts, and photographs,relating to American military activities during World War II and the Korean War. Includescorrespondence with General Samuel D. Sturgis, chief of engineers, 1951-1955; photographsand memoranda on bridge construction in Korea by the United States Army, 1952-1953; andcomments by F. O. Bowman on a manuscript entitled Fifth Army Engineers in Italy, 1959.

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