August 31, 2018 Marshall and His Extension as Chief of Staff August 31, 1943, was the last day of General George C. Marshall’s 4-year appointment as chief of staff of the…
August 17, 2018 Marshall and “Pa” Watson Seventy-eight years ago this week, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Senior…
August 10, 2018 The Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid This month, August 19th, sees the 76th anniversary of the (overwhelmingly) British-Canadian raid on the French port of Dieppe. This…
June 22, 2018 Marshall and the Office of War Information On June 13, 1942 Executive Order 9182 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the United States Office of War Information…
April 6, 2018 Marshall and W.A.C. Recruitment On this day in 1944, a confidential memorandum from General George C. Marshall was distributed to all War Department General…
November 3, 2017 Marshall and The Tehran Conference Note: This article was originally published November 3, 2017. The Tehran Conference, codenamed EUREKA and held November 28-December 1, 1943,…
August 18, 2017 Marshall and the Quebec Conference The first Quebec Conference (code-named QUADRANT) which occurred August 14-24, 1943, was the third crucial Anglo-American conference in seven months.…
August 4, 2017 Marshall and the Atlantic Conference On the evening of July 30, 1941, General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the United States Army, was…
November 28, 2014 Marshall, Frank Capra, and Film On May 27, 1942, the first of seven documentary films, Prelude to War, was released. This documentary series, Why We…
