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Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches and lectures, military papers, reports, orders, notes and notebooks, scrapbooks, military publications and other printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Patton's military career as a student at the U.S. Military Academy (1904-1909), member of John J. Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico (1916), aide-de-camp to Pershing and later tank commander in Europe during World War I, and commander of forces in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Documents American ground combat operations in the campaign for North Africa, the invasion of Sicily, the liberation of France, the final assault on Germany, and Patton's leadership in the development and tactical use of the tank as a combat weapon. Topics include the saber, cavalry, casualty information, denazification of Germany, and displaced persons. Includes family papers consisting mainly of Patton's letters to his wife, Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton, and his father, George S. Patton (1856-1927).
Correspondents include Harold Alexander (Earl Alexander of Tunis), Terry de la Mesa Allen, Henry Harley Arnold, Charles Fanning Ayer, Frederick Ayer, Omar Nelson Bradley, Arvin H. Brown, Mark W. Clark, Lucius D. Clay, Charles R. Codman, Willis Dale Crittenberger, Jacob L. Devers, Walter Francis Dillingham, James Harold Doolittle, Manton S. Eddy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Riley Finlay Ennis, Harry Albert Flint, Hobart R. Gay, Charles P. George, Alvan Cullom Gillem, Jr., Robert W. Grow, Wade H. Haislip, Thomas T. Handy, James G. Harbord, Ernest Nason Harmon, Guy Vernor Henry, Courtney H. Hodges, Kenyon Ashe Joyce, Alphonse Juin, Geoffrey Keyes, John Clifford Hodges Lee, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Porter Lucas, Lesley James McNair, George C. Marshall, Keith Merrill, Troy H. Middleton, Sherman Miles, Charles (Auguste Paul) Noguès, Elmer Q. Oliphant, Floyd Lavinius Parks, Willard Stewart Paul, John J. Pershing, Charles L. Scott, William H. Simpson, Walter Bedell Smith, Brehon Burke Somervell, Carl Spaatz, Henry Lewis Stimson, Charles Pelot Summerall, Alexander D. Surles, Lucian King Truscott, James Alexander Ulio, Walton Harris Walker, Frederick C. Wallace, J. J. Bethurun Williams, and John Shirley Wood.
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Correspondence, Cavalry, World War, 1914-1918, Sabers, Tank warfare, Campaigns, United States, United States Military Academy, World War, 1939-1945, War casualties, United States. Army, Refugees, Denazification, HistoryPeople
Charles Pelot Summerall (1867-1955), Willard Stewart Paul (1894-1966), Willis Dale Crittenberger (1890-1980), Charles Noguès (1876-1971), Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Charles R. Codman, Charles P. George (1886-1946), Harry Albert Flint (d. 1944), Thomas T. Handy (1892-1982), Henry Harley Arnold (1886-1950), Lesley James McNair (1883-1944), Arvin H. Brown, Sherman Miles (1882-1966), Walter Francis Dillingham (1875-1968), Hobart R. Gay (1894-), Frederick Ayer (1917?-1974), George C. Marshall (1880-1959), Charles Fanning Ayer (1865-1956), George S. Patton (1885-1945), James Harold Doolittle (1896-1993), John Porter Lucas (1890-1949), Troy H. Middleton (1889-1976), Frederick C. Wallace, Riley Finlay Ennis (1897-), Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981), Terry de la Mesa Allen (1888-1969), Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander Alexander of Tunis Earl (1891-1969), Robert W. Grow (1895-1985), Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985), John Clifford Hodges Lee (1887-1958), Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton (1886-1953), Alexander D. Surles (1886-1947), Keith Merrill (1887-1959), James G. Harbord (1866-1947), Walton Harris Walker (1889-1950), Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950), Wade H. Haislip (1889-1971), John Shirley Wood (1888-1966), Guy Vernor Henry (1839-1899), Manton S. Eddy (1892-1962), Carl Spaatz (1891-1974), John J. Pershing (1860-1948), Alphonse Juin (1888-1967), Ernest Nason Harmon (1894-1979), Alvan Cullom Gillem (1888-1973), Charles L. Scott (1883-1954), Brehon Burke Somervell (1892-1955), James Alexander Ulio (1882-1958), Courtney H. Hodges (1887-1966), J. J. Bethurun Williams, Geoffrey Keyes (1888-1967), Kenyon Ashe Joyce (1879-1960), Floyd Lavinius Parks (1896-1959), Jacob L. Devers (1887-1979), Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978), Lucian King Truscott (1895-1965), Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961), Elmer Q. Oliphant (1893-1975), William H. Simpson (1888-1980)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition of diary (Sept. 1942-5 Mar. 1943) available, no. 20,613.
Microfilm edition of scrapbooks, 1807-1950, available, no. 21,850.
Microfilm of the originals of personnel records in Patton's 201 file in the U.S. Dept. of the Army available, no. 17,250.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1992-2000.
U.S. Dept. of the Army, Washington, DC
Gift, Patton family and others, 1955-1986.
Reproduced with permission, U.S. Dept. of the Army, 1977.
transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
U.S. Army officer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
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