Robert M. Littlejohn photograph collection. 1940-1945.

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Robert M. Littlejohn photograph collection. 1940-1945.

Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Covers the following war: World War II (WWII). Contains photographs of the following military organization: Quartermaster Corps. General description of the collection: The Robert M. Littlejohn photograph collection consists of three oversize albums covering aspects of the Quartermaster Corps, 1940-1945. The first album of 140 photos covers activities and personnel in the Philippine Islands in 1940, showing ships, storage, warehouses, Army posts and wide variety of quartermaster activities. The second album of 29 photos shows the layout and functioning of the 58th Quartermaster (Q.M.) Base Depot at Liege, Belgium in 1945. The third album of 40 photos covers the inspection tour of Quartermaster General E.B. Gregory to quartermaster sites in Germany, April 29 to May 6, 1945. There are no photos of any other portion of Major General Littlejohn's long and distinguished career in this collection.

1 box (209 photographs)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7600623

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Gregory, Edmund B. (Edmund Bristol), 1882-1961

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Quartermaster General during World War II; first Director of War Assets Administration; first officer in Quartermaster Corps to hold a three-star rank. From the description of The Edmund B. Gregory papers, 1942-1943. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 22423703 Edmund Bristol Gregory (b. July 4, 1882, Storm Lake, Iowa-d. Jan. 26, 1961), Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, graduated from West Point in 1904 and served as Post Quartermaster-Commissary in the Philippin...

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 ...

United States. Army. Quartermaster Base Depot, 58th

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Littlejohn, Robert McGowan, 1890-1982

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Major general, United States Army; chief quartermaster, European Theater of Operations, during World War II. From the description of Passing in review : printed, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645194 Born in S.C. in 1890; educated U.S. Military Academy (B.S. degree), graduate of Quartermaster Corps Subsistence School, 1925; the command and General Staff School, 1929; Army War College, 1930; Served in the Philippines and on the Mexican border 1912-1917; Instructor at...