Milton O. Boone photograph collection. ca. 1905-ca. 1985.

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Milton O. Boone photograph collection. ca. 1905-ca. 1985.

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Contains the following type of material: photographs. Covers the following wars: World War I (WWI), World War II (WWII). Contains photographs of the following military organizations: Quartermaster Corps; European Command. General description of the collection: The Milton O. Boone photograph collection consists of photographs of Brigadier General Boone from childhood to his eighty-ninth birthday. Few photos cover his life before 1943, when he became a brigadier general in the Quartermaster Corps, and only four photos show him as a captain during WWI. Aside from a few portraits of himself and his wife in later life, the photos are of tours, receptions, dinners, etc., of the Quartermaster Corps (Q.M.C.) between 1943 and 1948. The largest single grouping is of staff and personnel at Headquarters (HQ), European Command (EUCOM) in 1948. A highlight is five photos of a banquet honoring General Jonathan Wainwright in 1945.

1 box (123 photographs)

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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....

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United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps

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Boone, Milton O.

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