Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, memoirs, awards / certificates, organizational documents, unit histories, clippings, newspapers, reports / studies, maps / charts, scrapbooks. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units: 6th Armored Division; 9th Armored Infantry Battalion. General description of the collection: Armor - U.S. - 6th Division (the George F. Hofman collection) papers include correspondence with officers and enlisted men, postwar interviews with officers, histories from many of the division's subordinate units; Division G-2 reports (August 1944-May 1945); orders (1942-1945); Division G-3 reports (August 1944-May 1945); Division G-3 training memoranda (1944-1945); after-action reports (1944-1945); Armor School student papers on division operations on the Brittany Peninsula, Operation Cobra; maps of the Brittany Peninsula; papers on operations of the division; unit awards; social activities of the 6th Division during WWII; activities of the division veteran's association post-war; scrapbooks about the 9th Armored Infantry Battalion; references to Major General Robert W. Grow's division command.
