Inventory of the Ernest Fred Easterbrook papers
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Title: Ernest Fred Easterbrook papers
Date (inclusive): 1852-1988
Collection Number: 2006C56
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
18 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 digital PDF files (0.005 GB)
(9.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, orders, reports, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to American
military operations in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, military operations during the Korean War, American
military assistance to Thailand, and American army aviation. Includes papers of Edmund Pepperell Easterbrook, army chaplain
and father of E. F. Easterbrook. Transcribed copies of Earnest Fred Easterbrook's World War II diaries (10 March 1944 - 23
February 1945) are available at
http://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections or at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Creator:
Easterbrook, Ernest Fred, 1908-1989
Creator:
Easterbrook, Edmund Pepperell, 1864-1933
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2006.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ernest Fred Easterbrook papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
Biographical Note
1908 August 6 |
Born, Fort Worden, Washington, United States, to Edmund Pepperell Easterbrook and Fannie Luscombe |
1931 |
B.S., Military Academy; Commander, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army |
1938 September 9 |
Married Nancy Stilwell, daughter of General Joseph Warren Stilwell |
1943-1945 |
Stationed under General Joseph Warren Stilwell in China-Burma-India Theater |
1945 |
Awarded Combat Infantry's Badge |
1946 |
Awarded the Legion of Merit |
1946-1949 |
Member, staff and faculty, U.S. Infantry School |
1948 |
Awarded Bronze (First Oak-Leaf Cluster) Star Medal |
1949-1951 |
Member, staff and faculty, Canadian Army Staff College |
1953 |
Awarded the Silver Star |
1954 |
Awarded the Legion of Merit |
1954-1955 |
Member, staff and faculty, U.S. Command and General Staff College |
1955-1957 |
Assigned, G-3, Allied Land Forces, Central Europe, SHAPE, Combat Infantry Badge; Military Cross 1st class (Belgium) |
1957-1959 |
Director, army aviation, ODCSOPS, Department of Army |
1959 |
475th Infantry Regiment, China-Burma-India (CBI); advanced through grades to Major General, U.S. Army |
1959-1961 |
Commanding General, U.S. Army Aviation Center |
1961-1963 |
Commanding General, 25th Infantry Division |
1963-1965 |
Chief, Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group, Thailand |
1965 |
Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal |
1965-1967 |
Deputy Commanding General, Sixth U.S. Army |
1967 |
Awarded La Croix de Guerre 1940 avec Palme and The Royal Honorable Flying Badge |
1985 |
Author,
The Soldier and the Cross
|
1989 February 19 |
Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers of Ernest Fred Easterbrook document American military operations in the China-Burma-India Theater during World
War II, U.S. Army operations in the Korean War, American military assistance to Thailand, and army aviation. Correspondence,
orders, photographs, reports, speeches, and writings relate to Major General Easterbrook's tenure as an infantry instructor
of Chinese troops in World War II, commander of the 7th Infantry regiment in Korea, and deputy commanding general of the 6th
Army, headquartered at the Presidio in San Francisco.
In addition to documenting Easterbrook's career in the military, the collection includes the papers of his father, Edmund
Pepperell Easterbrook (1864-1933), chief chaplain of the United States Army. Correspondence, reports, and photographs chronicle
Edmund Easterbrook's career as a chaplain in Cuba during the Spanish-American war and Germany in World War I.
The collection includes two published biographies and related materials:
The Soldier and the Cross (1985), a biography of Edmund Easterbrook written by Ernest Easterbrook, and
The Soldier with a Heart (2006), a biography of Ernest Easterbrook written by his son, John Easterbrook.
Related Materials
Joseph Warren Stilwell papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Aviation
Officers
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma
Korean War, 1950-1953
United States -- Military relations -- Thailand
Thailand -- Military relations -- United States
Chaplains, Military -- United States
United States. Army
Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946
Edmund Pepperell Easterbrook Papers
1852-1978
Scope and Contents note
Includes citizenship papers, correspondence, clippings, commissions, reports, photographs, printed matter, and memorabilia
relating to Edmund Easterbrook's life and his position as the chief chaplain of the United States Army. The series is further
subdivided into Personal, Career, Photographs and Clippings files and then ordered chronologically.
box 1, folder 15
Citizenship document
1896
Scope and Contents note
Includes signature, brochure, note, and picture of Rockton Church.
box 1, folder 24
Fannie Easterbrook memorial service
1929
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings and letters related to the death of Edmund Easterbrook's wife.
box 1, folder 28
Biographical sketch and general information
1931
box 1, folder 26
Retirement and death
1933
box 1, folder 16
Commission
1899
Scope and Contents note
Appointment to chaplain, United States Army.
box 1, folder 17
Spanish-American War
1898-1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters.
box 1, folder 18
Chaplain's duties
1899-1913, undated
Scope and Contents note
Printed matter and a letter.
box 1, folder 19
Philippines
1900-1918
Scope and Contents note
Photographs and negatives.
box 3, folder 3
Records from chaplain's school
1902-1915
box 1, folder 11
Monthly reports
1908, undated
Scope and Contents note
Written while stationed in Manila.
box 3, folder 4
Germany, Senior Chaplain of Armed Forces
1919-1923
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, pictures, and program for President Theodore Roosevelt's memorial service by Edmund Easterbrook. Includes a letter
to Edmund Easterbrook conferring on him the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the President of the French Republic.
box 1, folder 25
Chief Chaplain of the United States Army
1928-1933
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, letters, and printed matter relating to his retirement.
box 1, folder 27
Fort Monroe, Virginia
1978
Scope and Contents note
A plaque honoring the memory of Army Chaplain Edmund Easterbrook dedicated in Memorial Day services at Fort Worden.
box 1, folder 13
Family portraits
1852-1911
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs from Easterbrook's childhood in England.
box 1, folder 29
Family portraits
1891-1973
Scope and Contents note
Includes pictures from Fort Worden, Thanksgiving service in Ramblon, Rhode Island, notes, postcard, and souvenirs from the
Holy Lands.
box 1, folder 22-23
Family portraits before and after World War I
1906-1916, 1918-1923
box 1, folder 14
Headshots of Edmund Easterbrook
1909, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes service reports.
Ernest Fred Easterbrook Papers
1903-2006
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, journals, clippings, medical reports, flight records, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and printed
matter relating to Ernest Easterbook's career in the United States Army. The series is further subdivided into Personal, Career,
Correspondence, Photographs, Speeches, Writings, Certificates, Awards, Clippings, and Printed Matter files and then ordered
chronologically.
box 16, folder 4
Miscellaneous
1922-1970, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes article about movies shown by Edmund Easterbrook, article titled "Reminiscences," certificate from the Church of
the Centurion, clippings, invitation, letters, program for armistice day service, and four unidentified pictures.
box 8, folder 11
1957-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes medical report.
box 7, folder 6
Passports
1978-1983
Scope and Contents note
Includes two photographs and cancelled passports.
box 2, folder 8
China trip
1980-1982
Scope and Contents note
Includes article, journal, and notes.
box 7, folder 8
Efficiency reports
1932-1965
box 3, folder 1
Infantry school
1933-1966
Scope and Contents note
Includes United States Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea, National Defense College, National War College, and
Academic Department telephone directory.
box 18, folder 5
Panama
1934-1936
Scope and Contents note
Letters, list of assignments of men of details in fields, memoranda, printed matter, and special orders, including from War
Department.
box 18, folder 6
Camp Dix
1937-1941
Scope and Contents note
Commendation for his lecture on the Panama Canal before the Reserve Officers Association, letters, and special orders issued
by the War Department.
box 18, folder 11
War Department efficiency report and special orders
1937-1942
box 17, folder 6
Special orders
1941
Scope and Contents note
Relieved from duty by Adjutant General.
box 11, folder 1
Diaries, notebooks, and records of army personnel
1942-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, card signed by Ernest Easterbrook, messages, and miscellany.
China-Burma-India Theater
1943-1987
box 2, folder 7
General information
1943-1945
box 12, folder 1
475th Infantry Association (CO CT 475)
1944 and undated
Scope and Contents note
Lists of addresses, ammunition, weapons, and accessories to be carried by mules.
box 11, folder 3
475th Infantry
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Includes general orders, letters, memoranda, printed matter, and roster of officers and home addresses. See oversize boxes
for maps and other materials.
box 10, folder 6-8
Merrill's Marauders
1968-1987
Scope and Contents note
Includes brochure, clippings, correspondence, lists, memoranda, printed matter, and related materials.
box 18, folder 3
Fort Benning, Georgia
1946-1948
Scope and Contents note
Includes a pictorial report of the conference, list of army personnel, memoranda from John W. O' Daniel in appreciation of
Ernest Easterbrook's outstanding work as Secretary of the Infantry Conference, Infantry School.
box 12, folder 5
Sketch of "A" CO BUNC Combat Patrol
undated
Scope and Contents note
See oversize boxes for magazine, maps, and other materials.
box 18, folder 2
Canada
1949-1951
Scope and Contents note
Letter, nominal roll and address list, National Defense College and Canadian Army Staff College, and a poem.
box 12, folder 2-3
Miscellany
1952-1989
Scope and Contents note
Includes award, card, certificate citation, clippings, correspondence, list of officers and casualties, memoranda, newsletters,
notes, printed mattter, roster, and special orders
box 10, folder 1
Roster of officers and enlisted men of Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) RTC #1, 29th ROK Infantry Division
1953-1954
box 18, folder 4
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
1954-1955
Scope and Contents note
Includes personnel roster from Department III, clippings, memoranda in appreciation of Ernest Easterbrook's completion of
duty with the Command and General Staff College and promotion to General Officer for his outstanding service as Director,
Department III.
box 18, folder 9
France
1955-1957
Scope and Contents note
Clippings, award of Croix de Guerre, article on Ernest Easterbrook, and a Christmas letter.
box 17, folder 5
Briefings
1959, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes.
box 13, folder 11
Miscellany
1959-1986
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, letter of recommendation for promotion to Major General, magazines, and printed matter.
box 13, folder 10
Clearance record, list of papers, and telegrams
1962
box 4, folder 4
Order regarding Ernest Easterbrook's assignment of command of Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG) to Thailand,
APO 146, San Francisco, California
1963
box 22
Scrapbooks
1963 June-November, 1965 April-August
box 21
Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG), Thailand, 2 scrapbooks
1963 November - 1965 April
box 5, folder 1
Printed matter and correspondence
1963-1965
box 9, folder 7
Certificate, memorandum, notes, press release and rosters
1963-1965
box 4, folder 10
Embassy of the United States of America, Bangkok, and Thailand telephone directories
1963-1965
Scope and Contents note
Includes American Women's Club of Thailand directory.
box 9, folder 5
Alphabetical roster, Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG) to Thailand
1965
box 8, folder 6
Proposal for East Asia International University
undated
box 2, folder 9
Albums, compliments of RTA Cavalry Center, Sarabury, Thailand. From Sawad-Di to Major General Easterbrook with the best wishes
of the members of Army Section of Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG) to Thailand
undated
box 8, folder 10
Rosters, 6th Army
1966-1967
box 20
Scrapbook presented to Ernest Easterbrook by the 6th Army senior staff
undated
box 13, folder 8-9
Fort Rucker, Alabama
1960-1962
Scope and Contents note
Includes certificate, correspondence, farewell message, magazines, newsletters, notes, and miscellany.
box 8, folder 7
Retirement papers
1959-1967
box 8, folder 8
Retirement and letters of good wishes
1967
box 7, folder 7
Retirement ceremony schedule and standard pilot log book
1967
box 16, folder 2
1928
Scope and Contents note
Includes clipping and diary.
box 13, folder 1-7
1959-1962
Scope and Contents note
Includes clipping and diary.
box 5, folder 4
Chief Joint United States Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG), Thailand
1965
box 18, folder 7
1969
Scope and Contents note
Proposal for an Oral History Project. Correspondence with Glenn Campbell, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Willa
Baum, University of California, Berkeley.
box 11, folder 2
John H. Lattin Associates correspondence
1985-1988
box 2, folder 4
Boyhood pictures, brochure and proposal
1918-1923
box 2, folder 5
Plebe Year and at West Point
1927-1930
box 2, folder 6
As young officer at West Point and in Panama, including his wedding picture
1935-1942
box 2, folder 3
Fort Benning, Georgia
1948, undated
Scope and Contents note
Faculty of Infantry School, Ernest Easterbrook with his family.
box 20
Canadian Army Staff College, 2 group pictures
1949 January 19, 1950 January 16
box 2, folder 1-2
Pictures of Ernest Easterbrook and others taken in Korea
1953-1954
box 10, folder 5
Presidio of San Francisco, pre-arrival of 6th Army
1955-1956
box 4, folder 6
Ernest Easterbrook in army uniform and at social gathering
1957-1960
box 4, folder 7
Ernest Easterbrook including in Rucker, Alabama
1959-1962
box 4, folder 3
Ernest Easterbrook and his wife with others, 25th Division
1962-1963
box 20
Ernest Easterbrook scrapbook
1963 March-June, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes 2 pictures of Ernest Easterbrook with unidentified individuals.
box 5, folder 6
Thailand, army helicopters and reconnaissance helicopters
1965, undated
box 17, folder 3
1959-1962
Scope and Contents note
Includes brochure and clippings.
box 7, folder 2
AUSA dinner meeting
1965 November 11
box 7, folder 3
Army ROTC graduates
1966 January 27
box 7, folder 4
Fort Rucker, Alabama
1966 March 1
The Soldier and the Cross
1895-2006
box 3, folder 2
The Soldier and the Cross: A Biography of My Father, Edmund P. Easterbrook, by Ernest F. Easterbrook
undated
box 18, folder 1
The Soldier and the Cross: A Biography of My Father, Edmund Easterbrook, and
The Soldier with a Heart, biography of Ernest Easterbrook by John Easterbrook
1985, 2006
Photographs used in
The Soldier and the Cross
1895-1929
box 1, folder 1
Chapter 1, Edmund Easterbrook and his family and personalized souvenir from the Holy Lands
1895-1897 and undated
box 1, folder 2
Chapter 2, Edmund Easterbrook's family and his trips to Egypt and Palestine
1897-1900
Scope and Contents note
Includes acceptance of his commission as chaplain of the U.S. Army and memorandum from the office of the Adjutant General
with instructions about his assignment.
box 1, folder 3
Chapter 3, Chaplain from Manila
1901
box 1, folder 4
Chapter 4, Chaplain and his work
1902
box 1, folder 5
Chapter 5, Picture of Fort Worden
circa 1912
box 1, folder 6
Chapter 6, Individual reports of the chaplain to the Adjutant General
1908-1909
box 1, folder 7
Chapter 7, Edmund Easterbrook and flag presentation at Fort Worden
1918 and undated
box 1, folder 8
Chapter 8, Pictures of Church of the Palace, reception for Commander Eva Booth, ceremony for awarding Légion d'Honneur, Edmund
Easterbrook and his sons, wedding of Gladys Easterbrook
undated
box 1, folder 9
Chapter 9, Pictures and negatives, Easter Sunrise Service at Walter Reed Hospital, appointment of Edmund Easterbrook as Chief
of Chaplain, and Edmund Easterbrook's letter to Gladys Easterbrook
1928-1929
box 1, folder 10
Chapter 10, Fort Worden, Memorial Day services, circa 1912, and visit to West Point
1929
Certificates and diplomas
1931-1989
box 18, folder 10
Fort Benning, Georgia
1931-1933, undated
Scope and Contents note
Certificate for the completion of a base course, Troops Schools, in the subject of care of animals, clippings, letters, notebook,
orders from the War Department.
Recognitions received by Ernest Easterbrook from China, Korea, and Thailand
1931-1954
box 19
Diploma awarded for advancement in the Army of the United States, given at West Point, New York
1931 June 11
box 19
Letter of thanks from Headman of district office, Southern Cheju, Korea, for his help with the war orphans
1954 February 23
box 19
Testament from Korea for service to war orphans
1954 March 3
box 19
Letter of appreciation for his cooperation and maintenance of close liaison with the Advisory Group of 29th Infantry ROK Division
and for his efforts in supplementing training aids
1954 March 3
box 19
Certificates of appreciation
1954
box 19
Testimonial for distinguished services in the reconstruction of educational and welfare institutions in Cheju, Korea
1954 April
box 19
Testimonial in recognition of outstanding contribution to the administrative efforts at the orphanage of Chun-Sa, Korea
1954
box 19
Certificate of appreciation on the eve of his departure from Korea
undated
box 19
Album of pictures from Korea with illustrations in both Chinese and Korean
undated
box 22
Certificate for a diploma awarded to Ernest Easterbrook for graduating from the Defense Committee Course of Mediation, Fort
Benning, Georgia
1948 December
box 19
Memorial resolution of the California State Assembly in memory of the passing of Ernest Easterbrook
1989
box 3, folder 5
Awards of the Silver Star, citation for the Legion of Merit (Oak-Leaf Cluster), award of the Bronze Star Medal, and employment
record
1950-1963
box 1, folder 21
Fort Worden
1908-1975
Scope and Contents note
Includes printed matter and an article of remembrance of Ernest Easterbrook,
Burman News.
box 17, folder 4
Fort Rucker, Alabama
1959
Scope and Contents note
Clippings relating to Ernest Easterbrook's arrival as Commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Center.
box 9, folder 3
Presidio of San Francisco
1963-1966, undated
box 18, folder 8
"Training on the Roof of the World," Ernest Easterbrook's article on Tibet in Army
1982
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, Joseph Warren's comments about the United States Army, correspondence, and map. Also includes typescript
copies of the article.
box 21
Front Line: The Third Infantry Division, Korean edition
1954 October
Diary transcriptions
Scope and Contents note
The transcribed copies of Earnest Fred Easterbrook's World War II diaries (10 March 1944 - 23 February 1945) cover a significant
period of his service during World War II. In 1942, Earnest Fred Easterbrook was assigned to the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
(then commanded by Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell); initially he was an instructor and head of department at Ramgarh,
India, instructing Chinese soldiers and officers in military tactics and associated subjects. In early 1944, when these diaries
begin, he was assigned to be General Stilwell's executive assistant in Burma. He continued in that position through the capture
of Myitkyina; in late 1944, he was assigned to command the 475th Infantry Regiment, a component of the MARS Task Force, at
that time the only US ground combat unit in the CBI Theater. In that capacity he led the regiment behind Japanese lines to
cut the Burma Road in support of Chinese troops from Burma linking up with the Chinese Y-Force. The Y-Force was a 72,000-man
force based in China's Yunnan Province that was forcing the Japanese out of southwestern China so that a land supply route
- the soon to be named Stilwell Road from Ledo in India to Kunming in China - could be reopened.
The diaries are significant for their detailed recording of the activity of Chinese units in northern Burma, including hand-drawn
maps; as such, they are a companion to the Stilwell Diaries of the same period. In addition, during Easterbrook's command
of the 475th Infantry Regiment, the diaries provide visibility to activities and personnel during that little-know part of
the campaign in Burma. In the diaries, references to "dad" or "pop" are to General Stilwell. Easterbrook also refers to General
Stilwell at times as "Q.B.," short for Quarterback, Stilwell's code name.
Also in the Easterbrook collection are two diaries covering the same period (early to mid-1944). One of those diaries, labeled
"Supplemental Diary," seems to have been written when he had time to gather his thoughts and write in a more complete manner.
Those entries are designated by a box drawn around them.
Easterbrook originally drew the military unit symbols used in these diaries. The software used to reproduce the symbols uses
a font from Tom Mouat's MapSymbs website (www.mapsymbs.com). The software is Mouat's intellectual property but can be copied
freely. Tom was most gracious and generous with his time to ensure that the symbols worked properly.
Easterbrook's son, John, transcribed the diaries into DOC files, converted them to PDFs, and transferred them to Hoover in
2011. Hoover digitized the maps in the diaries, creating JPG files, in 2011.