Papers, 1941-1946.

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Papers, 1941-1946.

Diary, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Gable's imprisonment and death.

58 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409966

South Dakota State Archives

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United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps

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Fort Arbuckle was built in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma on April 19, 1851 and was formally designated a fort in June 1851. It was established by the U.S. Army to protect the region's relocated Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes from raids by Kiowa and Comanche Indians. The fort was also visited by wagon trains of Mormons and other emigrants enroute to the California gold fields. On June 24, 1870, Fort Arbuckle was abandoned when the establishment of Fort Sill rendered its further maintenance as a ...

Gable, Edgar Slaughter, 1905-1945.

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Lieutenant, Army Quartermaster Corps. Wagner, SD resident taken prisoner of war on May 6, 1942 on the Island of Corregidor, during World War II. He was held at Cabanatuan, near Manila in the Philippines, where he wrote the diary in this collection. He was killed January 9, 1945 when the Japanese freighter he was aboard was bombarded by American planes. From the description of Papers, 1941-1946. (South Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 39009562 ...