[African American Military] Archive of 16 original vernacular photographs depicting African American servicemen in the U.S. armed forces from World War II through the Korean War, including studio portraits, candid camp scenes, and informal snapshots, several with manuscript captions and identifications en versos. The group documents Black military life under.....
[WWII] Lt. Colonel Henry L. Hively, U.S. Army Air Forces correspondence and war archive, 1945, comprising medals, letters, documents, photographs, negatives, and ephemera, including Panama Canal Zone tourist booklet, wartime train-journey photo strips through France, namely Grenoble and Valence, aerial transport photographs, and extensive emotional correspondence from Oakland and San.....
Witmer, Richard L. Caribbean Coastal Artillery officer training archive, circa 1940s, documents the instructional framework and operational doctrine taught to U.S. Army Coast Artillery officers during World War II, with particular emphasis on antiaircraft defense, chemical warfare preparedness, and logistical coordination in domestic coastal defense. This archive belonged to Captain.....
[WWII][Philippine Occupation] Harwell, Lee W. World War II military archive, 1941–1945, recording the service of a North Carolina enlisted artilleryman from prewar mobilization through the American occupation of the Philippines following Japan’s surrender. Harwell, born in 1918 in Mooresville, North Carolina, enlisted in April 1941 and trained at Fort Bragg.....
United States Army Intelligence School. Intelligence training archive. 1959–1963. This archive documents the institutional training system used by the U.S. Army Intelligence School at Fort Holabird during the Cold War, outlining how personnel were instructed in reconnaissance, mapping, foreign intelligence analysis, and counterintelligence operations. The material establishes a formal curriculum.....
U.S. Army and Navy holiday dinner menus and related materials, 1929 to 1945, document organized communal life, ceremonial observance, and institutional identity within the American military across the interwar and World War II periods. The group includes menus for Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Armistice Day, and Navy Day, situating the material.....
Soldier Harold Howard's person documentaation of service in the 11th U.S. Cavalry during the period of American military occupation and intervention in Cuba following the Spanish American War. These photographs place an enlisted cavalryman within the broader framework of U.S. expansionist policy in the Caribbean under the Platt Amendment, when.....
[African American Military][WWI] Muller, William G. The Twenty-Fourth Infantry (1923) documents the service of a Black regiment in the United States Army, tracing its development from Reconstruction through the Mexican Border War. Written by Captain William G. Muller, the volume situates the regiment’s origins in the 1869 consolidation of the.....
World War I mobilization photo album, group of 65 photographs dating circa 1916–1918, documenting the training and daily life of U.S. soldiers during the pre-deployment period. The material captures the organization and routines of stateside military encampments as the United States prepared for overseas engagement, providing visual evidence of training.....
Photo archive documents the experiences of African American and white soldiers during and after World War II, with a particular focus on the postwar occupation of Japan and the Philippines. African American and white United States Army soldiers in occupied Japan and the Philippines appear throughout this World War II.....
WWII-era photographs measuring 11.5" x 7.25", Multiple locations, undated [Ca. 1940s]. With 67 photographs, ranging in size from 3.5" x 2.5" to 5" x 4", of a serviceman and multiple generations of his family. Photo Album. U.S. Army Training Camp and Domestic Life in the American South, circa 1940s. Oblong.....
Army Air Forces B-25 pilot training at Columbia Army Air Base is documented through 2nd Lt. Floyd J. Good’s flight records, B-25 questionnaire, training papers, base photographs, and an associated TB-25 cockpit checklist marked “Horg, L. M. / 45-B / C-1.” Good’s file places him in the 376th Squadron, 309th.....
11th Airborne Division paratroopers photographed during the early American occupation of Japan document airborne training and daily military life within one of the most distinguished U.S. Army airborne units of the Second World War. More than two hundred photographs dating primarily from 1947 depict members of the 11th Airborne Division.....
[Cold War] [U.S. Defense] Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces, missile technology, and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact.....
US Army manuals on counterintelligence, interrogation, and combat. FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations, FM 30-15 Intelligence Interrogation, FM 30-5 Combat Intelligence, and the Fort Huachuca subcourse Counterintelligence Investigations trace the Army's printed intelligence doctrine from January 1972 to June 1989. The sequence begins after the Army established Military Intelligence as a......
This exceptionally dense technical archive documents U.S. Army rocket and missile development during the height of the Cold War and Vietnam War, originating from the estate of a retired aerospace engineer, Thomas T. Howell, affiliated with the U.S. Army Missile Command, with direct work conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and.....
[Military][Nursing][Women in Medicine] Military directive establishing the Army Nurse Corps, 1901. General Orders, No. 113. Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General’s Office. Washington, August 22, 1901. Washington: War Department, 1901. First edition. 10 pages. Bound with cloth tape, lacking wrappers as issued. A foundational federal directive outlining the regulatory framework.....
[WWI][National Guard][WWII] Primary-source archive documenting U.S. Army transportation command operations supporting Allied logistics following the Normandy landings, centered on the development of Cherbourg as a critical supply hub. Assembled from the career of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Sullivan, the collection spans World War I mobilization through World War II and.....
[World War I] Fort Bliss soldier training and camp life photo album from El Paso, ca. 1918, recording the rapid wartime expansion of a border post into a large World War I training environment through tent rows, drill formations, truck convoys, gas-mask instruction, and group portraits of enlisted men in.....
U.S. Army and Navy photographs of Okinawa, 1945, document the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa and the establishment of American control over a strategically critical island at the close of the Pacific War. The images place American troops within the Okinawan interior and along coastal installations following the.....
Dawson, William L., African American congressman from Chicago and World War I veteran of the segregated 366th Infantry Regiment, House of Representatives speech delivered April 13, 1951 addressing segregation in the United States armed forces during the early years of the Cold War. Dawson served in Congress for nearly three.....
African American U.S. Army soldiers photographed during the early Korean War era document Black military service during the first years following the formal desegregation of the United States armed forces. Twenty photographs dating from approximately 1950 to 1952 depict African American soldiers in uniform at military bases and in field.....
United States Army airborne training operations documented in photographs created during World War II at Laurinburg Maxton Army Air Base in North Carolina. The images record the preparation and execution of paratrooper training jumps carried out as part of the rapid expansion of American airborne forces during the war. Photographs.....
Partially identified Black Airmen photographs and Tuskegee Airmen signatures. African American airmen associated with the United States Army Air Forces during the World War II era document the struggle the struggle of entry into military aviation during a period when the armed forces remained racially segregated. This archive contains sixteen.....
Panoramic photograph, 1940s, depicting an African American Quartermaster Corps unit during World War II, with direct relevance to the study of segregated military organization, logistical operations, and the role of Black service troops in the war effort. The image shows three rows of Black soldiers in uniform assembled on a......
