GRUENTHER, ALFRED M.: PAPERS U.S. Army Series
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1 Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (1)-(7) [JCS conference on USSR and U.S. strategic planning; four conferences, 1948-49; transcripts of presentations by Alfred Gruenther and one by Charles Bohlen; remarks on western European defense, Berlin, Germany, and on Soviet forces and capabilities]
History of AFHQ Part One August-December 1942
History of AFHQ Part Two December 1942-December 1943 Section 2
2 History of AFHQ Part Two December 1942-December 1943 Section 4
A Fragment of Victory in Italy During World War II 1942-1945 by Paul Goodman, 1952 [Army War College study concerned with 92nd Infantry Division and its principal attachments, including 473rd and 442nd (Japanese-American) Infantry Regiments]
War Diary of the Italian Campaign by F. Von Senger und Etterlin [account written by German commander of the surrender of German Army Group C to the 15th Allied Army Group at Florence, 1945]
3 Personal “201” File January 1943 – June 1946 (1)(2) [award of Distinguished Service Medal to General Gruenther for service with 5th U.S. Army and 15th Allied Army Group]
Personal “201” File February 1947 – October 1955 (1)-(3) [award of French Legion of Honor to General Gruenther and required Congressional Consent; General Gruenther at SHAPE]
Personal “201” File 1956 (1)(2)
Correspondence 1943-50 (1)-(8) [Headquarters 15th Army Group; Brazilian Expeditionary Force; personnel matters; Gruenther Diary notes (1944) re Generals Alexander, Clark and 8th Army and 5th Army operations in Italy; future operations; French Expeditionary Corps; General T.F. Farrell’s son killed in action; General William Donovan and OSS; General Lucian Truscott; Paul D. Harkins and operational planning; organizational and staff matters; General Lemnitzer and General Alexander; prostitution in Naples and venereal disease; visitors to North Africa, Middle East, Mediterranean, neuropsychiatric casualties in Fifth Army during Italian, Sicilian and Tunisian campaigns; mail situation Fifth Army; supply of Italian troops for Fifth Army; camp for General Alexander; General Lemnitzer and Italians; replacement situation; General Lemnitzer letter reporting on Sicilian campaign; Intelligence Section; E.S. Hughes; HQ North African Theater of Operations; Spanish Morocco]
4 [Correspondence General Gruenther Miscellaneous Personal 1942-46] [citation for Distinguished Service Medal; Walter Krueger letter of commendation; photograph of General Mark Clark and General George Marshall]
Correspondence – General Gruenther – Personal 1944-1945 (1)-(4) [Order of Malta; Allied military government in Austria; Russian newspaper censors in Austria; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; personnel assignments and Administrative matters]
Correspondence General Gruenther (Personal) Through September 1949 (1)-(3) [General Gruenther speaking engagements; United States Military Academy Sesqui-Centennial celebration; Gridiron Club Dinner; National War College student list for Class I plus photographs of class members]
Correspondence – Personal Business
Functions of Armed Forces and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff Organization as of November 1943 [includes JCS Committees as well as list of Combined Chiefs of Staff committees]
NWC Students [National War College students; data on officers to be graduated from Industrial College of Armed Forces in June 1948; roster of students scheduled to graduate from Command and General Staff College in July 1948]
Passports [General Alfred Gruenther’s special passports]
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