310 THE FIRST <strong>100</strong> YEARS Namesake: Samuel Frazier Reece (Pg. 71) • Indiana death certificates; Federal Census records; and WWI draft registration cards. • Oliver, John W., ed. Gold Star Honor Roll: A Record of Indiana Men and Women Who Died in the Service of the United States and the Allied Nations in the World War, 1914-1918 (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1921), 309 (Reece), 719 (Menzie). • Columbia City Post, Mar. 29, 1919, from whitleycountyin.org/obits • <strong>The</strong> <strong>Fort</strong> Wayne Sentinel, society page, 19 June 1917, 8. “Gunner of Tank Tells of Drive,” <strong>The</strong> Indianapolis Star, 14 May 1919, .3 • “Killed in Action in France,” <strong>The</strong> Indianapolis News, Dec. 12, 1918, 16. • “Military and Patriotic,” <strong>The</strong> Indianapolis News, Feb. 19, 1918, 20. • “Sanitary Engineer to Visit Warsaw,” <strong>The</strong> <strong>Fort</strong> Wayne Journal- Gazette, Feb. 27, 1918, 12. • “Warsaw News,” West Lebanon [Indiana] Gazette, Jan. 9, 1919, 1. Namesake: William Clifford Rock (Pg. 73) • “Father and Soldier Sons,” Evening Public Ledger (Harrisburg, PA), Feb. 13, 1918, 4. • <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong> General Order No. 13, Sept.19, 1931, courtesy Barbara Taylor, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Meade</strong> Museum. • La Vie 1916(State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University), 198, 545. • “Legion of Valor Head Elected,” <strong>The</strong> Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 2, 1924, 2. • “Legion of Valor Session Planned,” Harrisburg Telegraph, May 21, 1930, 9. • Penn State in the World War (State College, PA: <strong>The</strong> Pennsylvania State College Alumni Association, 1921), 267-268. • Treated ‘Em Rough (Philadelphia: E. A. Wright, Co., 1920), 120, 122. • “Sally Harris Letter,” Harrisburg Telegraph, 15 July 1930, 5. • “Valor Legion Opens Here July 13,” <strong>The</strong> Evening News (Harrisburg, PA), 28 June 1930, 7. Namesake: Robert Cornelius Llewellyn (Pg. 75) • 304th Brigade WarDiary, October 1918, Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota. • Commissions of Officers in the Regular Army, National Guard and Officer Reserve Corps, 1917–1940, Entry 415-A, Record Group 407, National Archives. • “History of the 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps,” Records of the Historical Section Relating to the History of the War Department, 1900–1941, Entry 310, Record Group 165, National Archives. • “History of Army Tank School, A.E.F.,” Nov. 22, 1918, File 229, Reports of the Commander-in-Chief, AEF—Staff Sections, and Services Relating to the History of the U.S. Army in Europe during WWI, 1919, Entry 22, Record Group 120, National Archives. • “Operations of the304th Brigade, Tank Corps from Sept. 26th to Oct. 15, 1918,”Chronological File, <strong>George</strong> S. Patton, Jr. Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. • Society of the <strong>First</strong> Division. History of the <strong>First</strong> Division During the World War 1917–1919.Philadelphia: <strong>The</strong> John C. Winston Co., 1922. <strong>The</strong> Cooks & Bakers School (Pg. 83) • <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Meade</strong> Public Affairs, “Cooks and Bakers School,” Soundoff!, January 16, 2014 America’s <strong>First</strong> Tank Unit (Pg. 87) • Dwight Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (Garden City, NY: Doubleday,1967), 137. • Dwight Eisenhower, “History of Tank Corps in Franklin Cantonment,” and “History of Franklin Cantonment,” undated.
SOURCES • “History of Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, Maryland,” Commanding General, Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, to Adjutant General of the Army, Sept. 12, 1919, Entry 310, RG165, National Archives, College Park, Maryland • Steven Ujifusa, A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 65–67. 311 Eisenhower at Camp <strong>Meade</strong> (pg. 96) Originally published in the Laurel Leader, Feb. 22, 2017, History Matters, info@theleonardgroupinc.com. Included in this book courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Media Group. Paving <strong>The</strong> Way For <strong>The</strong> Interstate (Pg. 101) • Eisenhower’s Army Convoy Notes Nov. 3, 1919; Daily Log of the <strong>First</strong> Transcontinental Motor Convoy, Washington D. C. To San Francisco, Cal. July 7th to Sept 6, 1919 • Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home website • Report, “Principal Facts Concerning the <strong>First</strong> Transcontinental Army Motor Transport Expedition, Washington to San Francisco, July 7 to Sept. 6, 1919.” • Photos curtesy of the Eisenhower Presidential Library collection Excerpts From A Tanker’s Story (Pg. 105) • A handwritten, unidentified letter part of the <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Meade</strong> Museum collection Roles for Women Grow (Pg. 109) • United States House of Representatives n.d., Treadwell 1954, 17v and National Women’s Hall of Fame, 2017 Leonard Wood To <strong>Meade</strong> (Pg. 113) • Record Group No. 338 Box 1, File No. 314.7, Historical Report for <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>, MD 1938, 1939, 1940 at NARA Booklet, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>. • Tank School, 1930, Published by the Tank School, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>George</strong> G. <strong>Meade</strong>, MD c 1930 • <strong>The</strong> Defender, Camp <strong>Meade</strong>, 1923, yearbook of the CMTC, Military Training Camps Association, Chicago, 1923. <strong>Meade</strong> Prisoners Of War (Pg. 133) • Originally published in the Laurel Leader, Apr. 7, 2016, History Matters, info@theleonardgroupinc.com. Included in this book courtesy of the Baltimore Sun Media Group. When Amore’ Freed <strong>The</strong> POW (pg. 139) • “Fifty <strong>Years</strong> Ago, <strong>The</strong>y Had Nothing: Prisoners of War,” Rafael Alverez, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 21,1993. • “Baltimore’s Little Italy,” Suzanna Rosa Molino, <strong>The</strong> History Press, 2015. Women Join <strong>The</strong> Fight (Pg. 141) • Treadwell 1954, 12, Morden 2000, 95. <strong>The</strong> National Security Agency (Pg. 149) • National Security Agency: 60 <strong>Years</strong> of Defending our Nation, https://www.nsa.gov/about/ • cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/nsa-60th/assets/files/NSA-60th-Anniversary.pdf • American Cryptology During the Cold War https://www. nsa.gov
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