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George C. Marshall: Interviews and Reminiscences for Forrest C. Pogue

These documents are transcripts and notes made during late 1956 and early 1957 by and for General George C. Marshall’s biographer, Forrest C. Pogue. They are the nearest approach to a memoir of Marshall’s later career that the general ever attempted.

Interview Notes  

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The Six Interviews  

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Introduction
Tape 01 – Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1880-90s
Tape 02 – Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1880-90s – Family background and parents.
Tape 03 – The Virginia Military Institute and Lexington, Virginia, 1897-01; influences on later life; home life.
Tape 04 – Philippine assignment, 1902-03; Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory; Texas mapping expedition.
Tape 05 – Fort Reno; Leavenworth schools, 1906-10, National Guard service, 1908-12; Philippine assignment, 1913-16; aide to General Bell, 1916-17.
Tape 06 – Preparedness and mobilization duties, 1916-17; First Division and France, 1916-1917; General Pershing; GHQ Duties; Madame Jouette.
Tape 07 – World War I: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne; First Division, French Leaders; MacArthur; aide to Pershing, 1919-24
Tape 08 – National Guard, 1939-41; relations with the British and the Army Air Corps
Tape 09 – Mobilization problems, 1939-41; Atlantic Conference, 1941; relations with the British.
Tape 10 – Mobilization problems, 1940-41; draft; relations with the Congress and the Army Air Corps
Tape 11 – Tunisia, 1943; relations with the British, the Congress, and the French; Army appropriations, 1941; Marshall Plan Speech, 1947; Secretary of Defense, 1950; relations with Stalin.
Tape 12 – Morning briefings, 1944-45; Arcadia Conference; China Mission, 1946; Pacific strategy
Tape 13 – World War II; Eisenhower and Patton, 1944; logistics and manpower problems; Battle of the Bulge; Malta and Yalta Conferences.
Tape 14 – Ultra leak to Dewey, 1944; Dill-Marshall relationship; politics and the JCS; relations with FDR; atomic bomb development and use
Tape 15 – Pacific theater operations; Leahy and the JCS; relations with Hopkins, King, Somervell; intelligence failures; war and democratic society; weapons development; Civil Affairs School; information and films for soldiers
Tape 16 – Elite units; qualities of U.S. and other soldiers; atomic bomb development; mobilization problems; media relations; moral problems.
Tape 17 – Demobilization problems; 1945; African-American soldiers; relations with FDR.
Tape 18 – Marshall Plan; lessons of World War I; reforming the Infantry School, 1927-32; Patton
Tape 19 – Churchill’s Balkan Plans; Marshall Plan; State Dept. reorganization; MacArthur and Pacific Strategy; Lend Lease.

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Photograph of a young Vietnamese Boy, 1968
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Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.

FRA-00998, Wheat
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A wheat field in France.

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FRA-00996, Tourism
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Scene along country road in northern France.

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FRA-00997, Manufacturing in northern France., October 2, 1948
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Factory under construction in northern France.

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FRA-00995, Wheat
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Wheat field in France.

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FRA-00994, Coal
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Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.

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FRA-00993, Agriculture/Wheat
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Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.

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FRA-00991, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00991 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

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FRA-00992, Tourism
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Scene along the road in northern France.

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FRA-00987, Mobile Caravan Exhibit
Call Number: FRA-00987 Collection:

Construction of exhibit barges and trailers for the mobile caravan exhibit prepared by the Visual Information Unit of the Information Division, ECA/OSR, Paris.

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Date: Late 1956 - Early 1957
 
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