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


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

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.

Collection Formats:

War Department Chiefs and Executives, October 19,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretary, General Staff, September 15,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Organization Chart Offices of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff & Secretariat, General Staff, March 1,
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Statistics Branch War Department General Staff organization chart
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Documents


Secretariat, War Department General Staff, June 7,
Call Number: GCM 7890 Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection, George C. Marshall Photographs

Photographs


Handshake after award from Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs


Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
Collection: F. Gorham Brigham Collection

Photographs

Legion of Merit awarded by Gen. George C. Marshall


Newspaper clipping of Pershing attending Brown-Marshall Wedding, October 12,
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Notice of Marshall-Brown wedding


Invitation list to wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall, 1930
Collection: George Catlett Marshall and Katherine Tupper Marshall Collection

Documents

Inivtation list to the wedding of Katherine T. Brown and Lt. Col. George C. Marshall


Marshall Day at Virginia Military Institute, May 15,
Author: Virginia Military Institute
Collection: George C. Marshall Collection

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Marshall Day Virginia Military Institute


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