The Clesen H. Tenney papers, 1909-1952, (bulk 1941-1944).

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The Clesen H. Tenney papers, 1909-1952, (bulk 1941-1944).

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Contains: diary of official activities that makes frequent references to the Air Corps, the Army-Navy Munitions Board, the War Production Board, the Office of Procurement and Materiel, International Business Machines, General Leonard Ayres, General Hines, Major G.E. Crom and the OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATION LIST OF RAW AND BASIC INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS (1941-1942); correspondence, official and personal, prepared while Commanding Officer of the 7th Army Garrison Force (1942-1944); notebook prepared by the War Dept. Statistics Branch for answering questions posed while making statements to various congressional committees; Tenney's thesis, photocopy of, entitled TREATMENT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR IN CERTAIN SELECTED NOVELS (M.A.--College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1952); U.S. Army commission certificates, Captain through Brigadier General (1922-1944); and diplomas from Tenney's high school and numerous military schools (1909-1933).

2 boxes.

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Born 1892. Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1915, Coast Artillery Advanced Course, 1927, Command and General Staff School, 1928, Army War College, 1932, and Naval War College, 1933. Promoted to Colonel, 1941. Assigned to the Statistics Branch, Army-Navy Munitions Board, 1942-1943. Commanding Officer of the 7th Army Garrison Force stationed on Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands, 1943-1944. Promoted to Brigadier General, 1944. Transferred to the 55th Coast Artillery Regimen...