Lamar Q. Ball World War II collection, [1940?]-[1946?].

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Lamar Q. Ball World War II collection, [1940?]-[1946?].

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Reports and subject files made up of photographs, news clippings, correspondence, bulletins, booklets, manuals, field notes, maps, press releases, census reports, and manuscripts collected and created to document World War II in Georgia. Topics include: the war in Georgia, especially in Atlanta and DeKalb County; war work, such as Red Cross blood drives and consumer rationing; African-Americans and white women in Georgia; social and health aspects of the war as developed in Georgia; shipbuilding, such as the Liberty ships, in Brunswick, Glynn Co., GA; bombers, specifically the Bell Aircraft Corporation, known as the Bell Bomber plant, in Marietta, Cobb Co., GA; and many folders on regiments of the army and navy, and their camps, such as Fort Benning.

17 cubic ft.

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Bell Aircraft Corporation (Marietta, Ga.)

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United States. Army. Infantry Division, 71st

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Ball, Lamar Quintero.

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Lamar Q. Ball was appointed official World War historian for the state of Georgia by Governor Ellis Arnall (who served 1943-1947). With the help of Mary Louise Cobb, research assistant, Ball prepared Volume I (1939) of GEORGIA IN WORLD WAR II, probably published in 1946. Although Ball had accumulated material to document Georgia all the way through the war years, no other volumes were published. From the description of Lamar Q. Ball World War II collection, [1940?]-[1946?]. (Georgia ...