The James R. Stephens papers 1921-1994.

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The James R. Stephens papers 1921-1994.

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Contains the following types of materials: memoirs, computer disk. Contains information pertaining to the following wars: World War II, Korean War, Greek Civil War. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 411th Signal; 29th Signal Battalion, Commandant, U.S. Forces/Austria Signal School; 127th Signal Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, Korea. General description of the collection: The James R. Stephens papers include memoirs of a U.S. Army major, retired. Memoirs detail service primarily in the Signal Corps, but with approximately four years in the Infantry as a combat still photographer; had two beach heads in the Philippines, 1944 (MacArthur's "Return").

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Stephens, James Russel

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...