Charles Burke memorial collection, 1939-1965.

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 ...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

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...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Raczkiewicz, Władysław, 1885-1947

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Polish statesman. Raczkiewicz was President of the Republic, 1939-1947. From the description of Papers, 1939-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155495717 ...

Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975

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Chinese political and military leader; head of state, 1928-1949; president of Taiwan, 1949-1975. From the description of Chiang Kai-shek diaries, 1917-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872867 1909-1911 served in the Japanese army; 1911 founding member of the Kuomintang; 1913-1916 participated in revolution against Yuan Shikai; 1923 commandant of military academy at Whampoa; ?1925 commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army; 1927-1937 leader of th...

Allied Forces

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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...

Burke, Karol.

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Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963

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Naval officer and diplomat. From the description of Papers of Alan Goodrich Kirk, 1919-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130909 Admiral, U.S. Navy. From the description of Papers, 1937-1945. (Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command). WorldCat record id: 51494807 Naval officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Alan Goodrich Kirk : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat rec...

Leclerq, Jacques-Phillippe Marie de Hauteclocque, 1902-1947.

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Polish Public Relations Service.

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Great Britain. Ministry of Information

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In 1917 the Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945) set up a Ministry of Information. The newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) was put in overall charge of the organisation as Minister of Information. Other appointments included the Managing Director of United Newspapers Ltd, Robert Donald (1860-1933), who became Director of Propaganda in Neutral Countries) and Lord Northcliffe, (1865-1922), another newspaper magnate, who became Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries. The Mini...

Mościcki, Ignacy, 1867-1946

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Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne

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Armed Forces of the Polish Government-in-Exile (London). From the description of Polskie Siły Zbrojne miscellaneous records, 1940-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868755 ...

Haller, Józef, 1873-1960

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Anders, Władysław, 1892-1970

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Polonia (Organization)

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United States information service

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Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970

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Charles Gaulle (b. November 22, 1890, Lille, France-d. November 9, 1970, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France) was a French general, statesman, and veteran of World War I and World War II. He led the Free French Forces during World War II and later served as France's President, 1944-1945; Prime Minister, 1958-1959; and Minister of Defense, 1958-1959, before founding the French Fifth Republic and serving as its first president, 1959-1969. ...

Sosnkowski, Kazimierz, 1885-1969

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Polish army officer and government official. He served as Minister of Military Affairs, 1921-1924; Vice-President, 1933-1941; and Commander-in-Chief, 1943-1945. From the description of Papers, 1939-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155497206 ...

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 ...

Sikorski, Władysław, 1881-1943

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Prime minister, Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1943. From the description of Władysław Sikorski miscellaneous papers, 1941-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868805 Biographical/Historical Note Prime minister, Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1943. From the guide to the Wladyslaw Sikorski miscellaneous papers, 1941-1942, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...