Richard C. Wing Collection

Richard Wing was a sergeant in the U.S. Army and became General George C. Marshall’s cook and orderly at Fort Myer, Virginia in 1944.  He later accompanied Marshall on his Mission to China in 1946 and to the “Big Four” Foreign Ministers Conference in Moscow in 1947.  After the war, Wing became owner and chief cook at the Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.  The collection contains Wing’s personal memoirs, letters between Wing and the Marshalls, photographs, documents relating to Wing’s military service, articles about the Imperial Dynasty restaurant, and a dvd, “Stories of Service, Richard Wing.”