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Library » Subject Guides » Fort Benning, Georgia


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Fort Benning, Georgia

Camp Benning, GA, was founded Oct. 7, 1918. Both the artillery and infantry schools had been at Fort Sill, OK, but the need for a larger Army in World War I meant that there was not room for both schools at Fort Sill, so the Infantry School of Arms moved to Georgia. Camp Benning was renamed Fort Benning in 1922.

Lt. Col. George Marshall became the assistant commandant of the Infantry School in 1927. Using what he had learned in World War I, he rewrote the training, emphasizing adaptability and critical thinking.

In 1936, the 2nd Armored Division under Brig. Gen. Patton was activated at Fort Benning. In the 1940s, the Infantry Officer Candidate School was established. Also, a new way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield was developed – first called “vertical envelopment,” later “airborne,” paratroopers were trained at Fort Benning.

During the Korean War, Army Ranger School was established at Fort Benning. In the 1960s, a new type of airborne soldier was developed using helicopters – air assault.

The Infantry School runs the Airborne Course, Ranger Course, the Snipers Course, Officers Candidate School, and the Infantry Basic Officers Leadership Course.

To find other items that the Marshall Foundation has on Fort Benning, search “Fort Benning” or “Infantry School” in the library catalog: https://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/results/

Digitized items in the George C. Marshall archives:

24.11.15 Colonel John Hughes to the Adjutant General
26.12.30 AR 350-200
27.11.16 Brigadier General Edgar T. Collins to the Chief of the Infantry
28.03.23 Brigadier General Edgar T. Collins to the Chief of the Infantry
28.11.19 George C. Marshall to Commandant of the Infantry School
29.01.09 Memorandum for the Chief of the Infantry
29.02.01 Memorandum for the Adjutant General from War Department
29.07.09 Chief of the Infantry to the Chief of the Field Artillery
29.07.09 Memorandum for Section III
30.01.14 Brigadier General Campbell King to the Adjutant General
30.01.16 George C. Marshall to G. Gunby Jordan
30.03.15 Major General H.A. Drum to the Adjutant General
30.05.02 George C. Marshall to Major Robert H. Fletcher
30.06.07 Marshall to Major Chynoweth
30.06.17 George C. Marshall to Colonel John Chambers
31.01.24 George C. Marshall to Frederick M. Ayers
31.01.30 Major William Livesay to George C. Marshall
31.02.26 George C. Marshall to Captain Lloyd Winters
31.03.04 Collier Company Encyclopedia to George C. Marshall
31.05.22 Marshall to Colonel Karl Truesdell
31.10.27 Memorandum for the Adjutant General from War Department
32.04.22 Major Frank Lackland to George C. Marshall
32.06.13 George C. Marshall to Major General Stephen Faqua
33.04.08 Captain Barnett to Chief of the Air Corps
Infantry School Quarterly, Vol. 1, 1930-31
Infantry School Quarterly, Vol. 2, 1930-31
LTC George C. Marshall’s Tenure at the Infantry School by John Borchick
Refreshing at the Infantry School by Bernard Lentz

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

Documents

Marshall Day Virginia Military Institute


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