The Dewitt C. Smith papers, 1926-1981.

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The Dewitt C. Smith papers, 1926-1981.

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Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, personnel documents, awards / certificates, clippings, newspapers, reports / studies, books / manuals, oral histories, photos. Contains information pertaining to the following war(s) and time period(s): WWII, Vietnam War. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: C3 of Central Army Group, NATO, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Vietnam; 2nd Brigade, 3rd Armored Division, U.S. Army Europe; Assistant Division Command, 5th Infantry Division, 4th Infantry Division. General description of the collection: The DeWitt C. Smith papers include some Civil War papers, articles, Amos Benson; a lot of speeches from 1960 to 1980; various letters to and from General Smith during the 1944/45 time frame; articles on the new Army and Fort Carson, Colorado, daily schedule when he was Commandant of the U.S. Army War College.

13 boxes.

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Army War College (U.S.)

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Smith, DeWitt C. (DeWitt Clinton), 1920-

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DeWitt Clinton Smith, Jr. was a United States (U.S.) Army officer who served in the European Theater of Operations of World War II (WWII), the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general and was commandant of the U.S. Army War College in 1974. Smith later became director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Harrisburg and a lecturer at Shippensburg State University. From the description of The Dewitt C. Smith papers, 1926-1981. (US Army, Mil Hist In...

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...