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Collection Title:
Creator:
Power, Thomas S. (Thomas Sarsfield), 1905-1970.
Inclusive Dates:
1928-1970
Abstract:
Papers of the American military officer. Powers was Assistant Chief of Operations, U.S. Strategic Air Forces, 1945; Assistant Task Force Commander for Air Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, 1946; Vice-Commander of the Strategic Air Command, 1948-1954; Commander of the Air Research and Development Command, 1954-1957; and Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Command, 1957-1964. Collection includes communications and writings (1945-1970), correspondence (1945-1970), memorabilia (1934-1970), and organizational records (1928-1969), mostly pertaining to the American Security Council. Notable correspondents include William F. Buckley, Lucius D. Clay, Carl T. Curtis, Donald W. Douglas, Ira Eaker, Joe Foss, Arthur Godfrey, Barry Goldwater, Roman L. Hruska, William R. Kintner, Curtis LeMay, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Robert S. McNamara, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Francis Spellman, Lawrence Spivak, Stuart Symington, Lowell Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Nathan Twining, DeWitt Wallace, and Thomas D. White, among others.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Appointment books.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Sound recordings.
Book reviews.
Correspondence.
Interviews.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorandums.
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
United States -- Military policy.
Design for survival.
Aeronautics.
Military history
Aeronautics, Military -- United States.
Arms race.
Deterrence (Strategy)

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
White, Thomas D. (Thomas Dresser), 1901-1965.
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1961
Abstract:
Papers of the U.S. Air Force officer and Air Force Chief of Staff, 1957-1961.Collection contains communications (1948-1961), including correspondence and memoranda; memorabilia (1945-1954); and personal office files (1953-1961). Correspondents include Hanson Baldwin, Omar Bradley, William C. Bullitt, Arleigh Burke, Richard E. Byrd, Dwight D. Eisenhower, W. Barton Leach, Curtis LeMay, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, George S. Myers, Thomas S. Power, L. Mendel Rivers, A. Willis Robertson, Carl Spaatz, Stuart Symington, Maxwell D. Taylor, Lowell Thomas, Nathan F. Twining, Lee Wulff, and others.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Memorandums.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Subject:
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
United States -- Military policy.
Aeronautics.
Military history
Aeronautics, Military -- United States.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Wood, John S. (John Shirley), 1888-1966.
Inclusive Dates:
1917-1967
Abstract:
Papers of the U.S. Army officer. Collection consists of correspondence (1928-1967); articles and speeches on military subjects (1934-1967); photographs (1937-1965); and memorabilia (1917-1966), including address books. Notable correspondents include Creighton W. Abrams, Hanson Baldwin, Alan Bible, Howard W. Cannon, Bruce C. Clarke, James B. Conant, Bing Crosby, William O. Douglas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leopold Figl, J. William Fulbright, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Curtis E. LeMay, Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John L. McClellan, Frank Pace, George S. Patton, Francis T.P. Plimpton, Syngman Rhee, Eddie Rickenbacker, L. Mendel Rivers, Karl F. Rolvaag, Eleanor Roosevelt, DeWitt C. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Maxwell D. Taylor, James A. Van Fleet, William C. Westmoreland, Stephen M. Young, and others.
Type of Material:
Address books.
Articles.
Sound recordings.
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Phonograph records.
Photographs.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Military history