The Lyman L. Lemnitzer papers, 1960-1990.

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The Lyman L. Lemnitzer papers, 1960-1990.

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Contains the following types of materials: speeches, articles, interviews, oral history. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: World War I (WWI) -- U.S.; World War II (WWII) -- North Africa; Mediterranean -- European Theater of Operations (ETO); Cold War; Korean War; 1950s; 1960s. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: United States Military Academy (USMA); Coast Artillery School(CAS); Command and General Staff School (CGSS), U.S. Army War College (AWC); Fifth (5th) U.S. Army; 15th Army Group; Mediterranean Theater; National War College; Infantry School; 11th Airborne Division; commanding general (CG), 7th Infantry Division; CG, Eighth (8th) Army; Commander in Chief (CINC), Far East and United Nations (UN) Command -- Governor, Ryukyus; Vice Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), United States Commander in Chief Europe (USCINCEUR); and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). General description of the collection: The Lyman L. Lemnitzer papers include speeches, memoir, and biographical articles. He discusses family and private life, love of military education, time of declining Army, career (from Operation Torch to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)), reasons for war and how to prevent it, importance of a strong military, Bay of Pigs, Berlin Crisis, and his later years.

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Lemnitzer, Lyman L. (Lyman Louis), 1899-1988

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Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (August 29, 1899 – November 12, 1988) was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He received his commission in the Coast Artillery Corps from West Point in 1920 and was an instructor at West Point from 1926 to 1930, and again in 1934 and 1935. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1936 and the Army War College in 1940 and saw duty with war plans division and the staff of Army Ground Forces from May 1941 to June 1942. He reached the rank of brigadier general in...

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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...