The Charles E.N. Howard, Jr. papers, 1922-1945.

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The Charles E.N. Howard, Jr. papers, 1922-1945.

Contains the following types of materials: press clippings, speeches, memoirs. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time periods: 1920s; 1930s; World War II (WWII) -- Pacific. Contains information pertaining to the following military units: Third Army; VIII Corps; U.S. Army Forces - Far East. General description of the collection: Charles E.N. Howard Jr. papers include a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, both contemporaneous and postwar, concerning the fall of the Philippines in 1942 and capture of Americans. Postwar accounts and wartime recollections of Jonathan M. Wainwright, Edward P. King and Lieutenant Thomas Gerrity of the Air Force are given. Howard's earlier service under General Hagood (1934-1936) is found in a volume of orders and speeches given by Hagood. A clipping on Hagood's service as commander of the 12th Field Artillery Brigade and commandant of Camp Stotsenburg in the 1920's, when he invested a Negrito as king of the tribe and when he resolved social questions occasioned by the transfer of the 9th U.S. Cavalry Regiment from the islands to the states in October 1922 is also included.

2 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7587093

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Gerrity, Thomas P. (Thomas Patrick), 1913-1968

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Thomas Patrick Gerrity (1913-1968) was born in Harlowton, Montana, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Tilden Tech and the Armour Institute, the predecessor to the Illinois Institute of Technology. He entered military service in August, 1939 as an aviation cadet. He graduated from flight school in May, 1940, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps Reserve. He served at several air fields with the 15th Bombardment Squadron and the 17th Bombardment Squadron prior...

Howard, Charles E. N., Jr.

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Charles E.N. Howard, Jr. was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He was a 1st lieutenant, aide-de-camp to Major-General Johnson Hagood, commanding the 3rd Army and the VIII Corps Area; assistant judge-advocate, VIII Corps Area; captain and major of field artillery, U.S. Army Forces, Far East. From the description of The Charles E.N. Howard, Jr. papers, 1922-1945. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 47956665 ...

United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 9th.

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Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953

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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (b. August 23, 1883, Walla Walla, WA–d. September 2, 1953, San Antonio, TX) was a career American army officer and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. The son of Army officer during Spanish-American War Robert Powell Page Wainwright and grandson of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright II, Lieutenant in Civil War, he attended West Point. Wainwright was promoted to major during World War I....

United States. Army. Field Artillery Brigade, 12th.

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Hagood, Johnson, 1873-1948

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U.S. Army officer. Born in Orangeburg, S.C., he graduated from West Point in 1896 and saw service in Europe during World War I. He was promoted to Major General in 1925. After a political controversy in 1936, Hagood was relieved of command of the Eighth Corps by President Roosevelt and soon afterward retired; in congressional testimony (solicited in confidence but then publicized) he called WPA funds "stage money" and suggested that they would be better used for improvements to army housing. He ...

King, Edward Peter

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