Reminiscences of Graves Blanchard Erskine : oral history, 1970.

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Reminiscences of Graves Blanchard Erskine : oral history, 1970.

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Family background, education; World War I, France; sea and foreign duty, 1921-30; Peking, 1935-37; World War II, Attu, Kiska operations, 1941-43; Kwajalein operation; General Holland M. Smith; Saipan, Iwo Jima, Guam, 1944-45; administrator, Retraining and Reemployment Administration, Department of Labor, 1945-47; Special Joint State-Defense Survey mission to Southeast Asia, 1950; Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic: planning involvement with North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Transcript: 573 leaves.Tape: 13 reels.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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