Repository description, [187]̲-1979.

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Repository description, [187]̲-1979.

Holdings include photographs, scrapbooks, manuscripts, maps, and other materials concerning the transition from cavalry to armor, the development of Fort Knox as the Army's Armor Center, and the history of tank warfare. Present are the Colonel Robert Joseph Icks collection of photographs of armored vehicles; and military papers of Generals Isaac D. White, Harry W. Johnson, and Harold W. Blakeley.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959980

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Patton Museum (Fort Knox, Ky.). Davis Memorial Library.

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Acquisitions policy: The museum collects and maintains items of historical interest relating to armor and mechanized cavalry, Fort Knox, and General George S. Patton. From the description of Repository description, [187]̲-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191915369 ...

Blakeley, Harold Whittle, 1893-1966

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White, Isaac D. (Isaac Davis), 1901-

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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001086.0x0003d9 Biographical note: Isaac D. White was commissioned in 1922 as a second lieutenant in the United States Cavalry. He was assigned to the First Cavalry at Fort Knox, Kentucky and graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He later transferred to the Second Armored Division. During World War II, White joined the W...

Icks, Robert Joseph, 1899-

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Johnson, Harry W. 1901-1984.

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Biographical note: After his graduation from the United States Military Academy, Harry W. Johnson served in the United States Cavalry (1926-1942). He later became assistant chief of staff of the Ninth Armored Division (1942-1943) and participated in the invasion of Normandy with the XIX Corps. Johnson became chief of staff for the administration of the United States European Command (EUCOM), and then the director of the United States Army Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky (1950-1954). Afterwar...

Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...