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Category: This Week In History

September 2, 2020

“Do you, George Catlett Marshall, having been appointed a major general in the Regular Army …”

  On September 1, 1939, Maj. Gen. George Catlett Marshall took the oath of office to become the 15th Chief…

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July 22, 2020

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

The 64th anniversary of the dedication of the Colleville-sur-Mer Normandy American Cemetery was commemorated July 18. Among the thousands of…

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July 1, 2020

Marshall Begins Duties as Acting Army Chief of Staff

Deputy Chief of Staff George C. Marshall assumed the chief’s duties on July 1, 1939. According to army regulations: “The…

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June 24, 2020

Allied Strategic Debates: North African versus cross-Channel invasion

June 1942 It was an inauspicious time for the Second Washington Conference to convene. The Allied position in the Mediterranean…

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May 27, 2020

The Battle of Cantigny in the words of Lt. Col. George C. Marshall

After the United States declared war on the Central Powers April 6, 1917, the first U.S. troops arrived in France…

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May 15, 2020

May 15, 1951, Marshall Day at VMI: A Photo Essay

Each May 15, the Virginia Military Institute corps of cadets assembles to pay tribute to the ten cadets who were…

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May 8, 2020

Victory in Europe

“The mission of this Allied force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945,” Gen. Eisenhower to the Combined…

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April 29, 2020

Marshall and the Knutsford Affair

This is a previously published blog. General George S. Patton’s comments at the opening of a British Welcome Club for…

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April 3, 2020

Anniversary of the Signing of the Marshall Plan

With the quick strokes of a pen, seventy-two years ago today, President Harry S. Truman changed the course of world…

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