Omar Bradley

Anderson, Robert B.: Papers, 1933-89 Box 287 Eisenhower, President Death of [CBS interview with Bradley & others re their recollections of DDE, 1969]

Aurand, Henry: Papers, 1873-1967 Box 28 General Correspondence AMET 1946 A-M [Bradley correspondence] Box 36 General Correspondence 1948-49 A-B [Bradley correspondence] Box 43 General Correspondence 1950 A-E [Bradley correspondence] Box 44 [General Correspondence] 1951 A-C [Bradley correspondence] Box 45 [General Correspondence 1952] A-B [Bradley correspondence] Box 46 Official Correspondence: Office of the Chief of Staff, 1949 [Bradley correspondence] Box 46 Official Correspondence: Office of the Chief of Staff, 1950 [Bradley correspondence] Box 46 Official Correspondence: Office of the Secretary of General Staff, January-December 1950 [Bradley correspondence] Box 60 West Point Class of 1915, Reunion at Home of Omar Bradley, 1965

Devers, Jacob L.: Papers, 1939-49 [microfilm] Reel 3 Official Correspondence, 1947-49 [Bradley correspondence]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Pre-Presidential Papers, 1916-52 Box 13 Bradley, Omar N. (1)-(6)

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Papers as President (Ann Whitman File), 1953-61 DDE Diary Series Box 15 Apr. 1956 Goodpaster [meeting with Bradley re veterans] Name Series Box 3 Bradley, Omar

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Post-Presidential Papers, 1961-69 1961 Principal File, Box 3 Bradley, Omar N. 1963 Principal File, Box 37 Br (1) [Bradley correspondence] 1964 Principal File, Box 27 Br (1) [Bradley correspondence] 1965 Principal File, Box 21 Br (1) [Bradley correspondence] 1966 Principal File, Box 24 Br (1) [Bradley correspondence]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.: Records as President (White House Central Files), 1953-61 Confidential File Box 104 World War II (10) [Bradley correspondence] President’s Personal File Box 942 PPF 314 Bradley, Gen. Omar

Ellis, Edmund: Material re US Military Academy Class of 1915, 1949-82 Box 1 Class Newsletters [Three folders of newsletters re social activities of class members, covering 1952 and 1971-82; several newsletters contain information submitted by Bradley]

Gruenther, Alfred: Papers, 1941-83 General Correspondence Series Box 3 Bradley, Omar N. [1946-53] Box 24 Bradley, Gen. Omar N. [1953-56] NATO Series Box 2 Bradley, Omar [1949-53] Hagerty, James C.: Papers, 1952-74 Box 8 Personal-Friends [Bradley correspondence] Box 110 Dwight D. Eisenhower Correspondence 1967 [correspondence re Bradley]

Hodges, Courtney H.: Papers, 1904-65 Box 11 Subject Correspondence 1946-48 B Vol. I & II [Bradley correspondence] Box 22 1950-65 Personal Correspondence A-F [Bradley correspondence]

Republican National Committee: News clippings and publications, 1932-65 Boxes 318-19 [five folders of clippings regarding Bradley, covering 1944-62]

Robinson, William E.: Papers, 1935-69 Box 1 Eisenhower-Personal, 1944-47 [correspondence re Bradley]

Ryder, Charles W.: Papers, 1917-50 Box 1 General Correspondence A-B [Bradley correspondence]

Smith, Walter Bedell: Papers, 1942-61 Box 7 Personal Papers 1943-44 A-L [Bradley correspondence] Box 8 Personal Correspondence 1944 (1) [Bradley correspondence] Box 8 Personal Correspondence Jan-June 1945 (1) [Bradley correspondence] Box 10 Personal Correspondence July-Dec 1945 (1) [correspondence re Bradley] Box 17 1951 Personal Correspondence B [Bradley correspondence]

U.S. President’s Commission on Veteran’s Pensions: Records, 1954-58 152 boxes, approximately 121,600 pages [Omar Bradley was chairman of this commission; the most significant files on his work include his correspondence with the commission staff (two folders in box 6) and minutes of the meetings he attended (boxes 16-22)]

Secondary Sources

Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story (New York: Henry Hall & Co., 1951) [Bradley’s account of his World War II service]

Omar Bradley & Clair Blair, A General’s Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983) [Bradley’s autobiography covering his entire life; Bradley started the book with the assistance of journalist Clay Blair and Blair finished it after Bradley’s death]

Other Archives

Bradley’s personal papers are divided between the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, and the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Carlisle Barracks has Bradley’s World War II files, and West Point has Bradley’s papers covering other periods of his career. The papers of journalist Clay Blair, who assisted Bradley with his autobiography, are at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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