Preliminary Inventory of the Military Order of the World Wars records

Finding aid prepared by Linda Bernard

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

Title: Military Order of the World Wars records

Date (inclusive): 1876-2010

Collection Number: 65029

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 342 manuscript boxes, 14 oversize boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 oversize folder (150.0 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Biographical data on members, chapter histories, minutes, convention proceedings, memoirs, printed matter, photographs, memorabilia, relating to American military activities, especially in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese War; and to veterans' activities.

Creator: Military Order of the World Wars

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired.

Historical Note

Patriotic American organization of former military officers.

Scope and Content Note

Biographical data on members, chapter histories, minutes, convention proceedings, memoirs, printed matter, photographs, memorabilia, relating to American military activities, especially in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese War; and to veterans' activities.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States

World War, 1914-1918 -- United States

Korean War, 1950-1953

Veterans -- United States

United States -- History, Military

United States. Navy

United States. Army

United States. Air Force

United States. Marine Corps

Biographies

General - Biographical sketches, clippings, memoirs

General

box 1

A-M

box 2

N-Z

box 3

Allin, Benjamin Casey, III, Colonel

box 4

Bushey, Arthur Clifton, Jr., Commander

box 4

Dodge, Morton Moore, Colonel

box 4

Geiger, Vincent A.

box 5

Navarre, Christopher P., Chief Warrant Officer

box 5

Port, Horace, Brigadier General

box 5

Ramsey, Edwin Price, Lieutenant Colonel

box 5

Sinks, George T., Major

Who's Who forms (arranged by chapter name and therein alphabetically by Companion name).

Scope and Contents note

Includes some chapter bulletins, histories, and rosters

box 6

Unspecified

box 6

Anchorage

box 6

Andrews AFB

box 6

Apache Trail

box 6

Atlanta

box 7

Augusta

box 7

Austin

box 7

Baltimore-Devereux Memorial

box 7

Baton Rouge, LA-Gen. Troy H. Middleton

box 8

Berkeley (defunct)

box 8

Bethesda

box 8

Boise Valley (defunct)

box 9

Bradenton/Sarasota

box 9

Burlington (defunct)

box 10

Cajon Valley-San Diego (merged with General J. Paul Holland)

box 10

Canal Zone (defunct)

box 10

Cape Cod

box 10

Cdr Simpson-Ltc Loring

box 11

Central Alabama (defunct)

box 11

Central Arkansas

box 11

Central Florida

box 11

Central New Jersey (defunct)

box 11

Central Pennsylvania

box 11

Central Texas Area (merged with Hill Country Texas)

box 11

Charlotte

box 12

Chicago

box 13

Chicago

box 14

Cincinnati

box 14

Clearwater

box 14

Cleveland

box 15

Col John M. Birkner

box 15

Col Pendleton Woods/Oklahoma City

box 15

Colorado Springs

box 15

Columbia

box 15

Columbus, GA

box 15

Conejo Valley

box 15

Coral Gables (merged with Miami)

box 15

Corpus Christi

box 16

Dallas

box 17

Dallas

box 18

Dallas

box 19

Daytona Beach

box 20

Denver

box 20

Detroit

box 21

East Texas

box 21

El Paso

box 21

Emerald Empire (defunct)

box 21

Fairfield Bay (defunct)

box 21

Flagler-Palm Coast (defunct)

box 21

Florida Gold Coast (defunct)

box 22

Fort Benning (defunct)

box 22

Fort Buchanan (changed name to Puerto Rico)

box 22

Fort Hood

box 22

Fort Huachuca

box 22

Fort Snelling

box 22

Fort Walton Beach

box 22

Fort Worth

box 22

Frankfort

box 22

Fresno (merged with Monterey Bay)

box 23

G/A Omar N. Bradley

box 23

General Critz

box 23

General George G. Meade

box 23

General Hoyt S. Vandenberg

box 23

General J. Paul Holland

box 23

General Joshua Chamberlain

box 24

General Leigh Wade-D.C.

box 24

General M. B. Ridgway-Pittsburgh

box 24

General Westmoreland/Charleston

box 24

Granite State

box 24

Great Salt Lake

box 25

Greater Boston

box 25

Greater Kansas City

box 25

Green Mountain

box 26

Gulf Coast (changed name to Capt Maltby-Pensacola, then merged with Fort Walton Beach)

box 26

Gunpowder (defunct)

box 26

Hampton Roads

box 26

Hann-Buswell Memorial

box 26

Hartford (defunct)

box 26

Harvey Latham

box 27

Headquarters

box 27

Hill Country Texas

box 28

Honolulu (changed name to Gaylord Dillingham Memorial)

box 29

Houston

box 29

Huntsville

box 29

Illowa

box 29

Indiana

box 29

Indianapolis

box 29

Jackson

box 29

Jacksonville

box 29

Joseph H. Pendleton

box 30

Key West (defunct)

box 30

Knoxville

box 31

Lafayette (defunct)

box 31

Laguna Hills (defunct)

box 31

Las Vegas

box 31

Leisure World

box 32

Long Beach (merged with G/A Omar N. Bradley)

box 33

Los Angeles (defunct)

box 33

Louisville

box 33

Lt Richard F. Williams Memorial (merged with Santa Fe)

box 33

Ltg John M. Wright, Jr.

box 34

Major Cyrill H. Pfohl (defunct)

box 34

Memphis

box 34

Mendenhall Memorial (defunct)

box 34

Mesilla Valley

box 34

Mg Franklin E. Miles

box 35

Miami

box 35

Mid-Michigan

box 35

Middle Georgia

box 35

Middle Tennessee (defunct)

box 35

Milwaukee

box 35

Mississippi Coast

box 36

Monroe

box 36

Monterey Bay

box 36

Narragansett Bay

box 36

New Bedford (merged with Narragansett Bay)

box 36

New Haven

box 37

New London

box 37

New Orleans

box 38

New York (defunct)

box 39

New York (defunct)

box 40

New York (defunct)

box 41

New York (defunct)

box 42

New York (defunct)

box 43

New York (defunct)

box 44

Norfolk (defunct)

box 44

North Suncoast (defunct)

box 44

Northern New Jersey

box 44

Northern Virginia

box 45

Oakland (defunct)

box 45

Orange County (defunct)

box 45

Oro Valley (changed name to Catalina Mountains)

box 46

Palo Alto-Stanford (merged with San Francisco)

box 46

Paris, France (defunct)

box 47

Pasadena

box 47

Pecos Valley

box 48

Peninsula (defunct)

box 48

Philadelphia

box 49

Philadelphia

box 50

Philadelphia

box 51

Phoenix

box 51

Piney Woods (defunct)

box 51

Pinson Memorial

box 52

Ponce, Puerto Rico (changed name to Puerto Rico)

box 52

Portland

box 53

Prince George's County

box 53

Puerto Rico

box 53

Quad-Cities (changed name to Illowa)

box 53

Reno-Carson City (defunct)

box 53

Richmond

box 53

Roanoke

box 53

Sacramento (defunct)

box 53

Saddleback Valley

box 54

San Antonio

box 54

San Clemente

box 55

San Diego

box 56

San Diego

box 57

San Diego

box 58

San Fernando Valley

box 58

San Francisco

box 58

San Juan, Puerto Rico (changed name to Puerto Rico)

box 58

Santa Barbara

box 59

Santa Cruz Valley

box 59

Santa Fe

box 59

Savannah

box 60

Seattle (defunct)

box 61

South Bay (defunct)

box 61

Southern Maryland

box 61

Southwest Florida

box 61

Space Coast-Indian River

box 61

Spokane (merged with The Puget Sound)

box 61

Springfield, MA (defunct)

box 61

Springfield, MO (defunct)

box 61

St Augustine

box 61

St Louis

box 62

St Paul (defunct)

box 62

St Petersburg (merged with Clearwater)

box 62

Sun Cities

box 62

Sun City Center

box 63

Tallahassee

box 63

Tampa (defunct)

box 63

The Puget Sound

box 63

Topeka

box 63

Tucson (mreged with Catalina Mountains)

box 64

Vadm George C. Dyer-Annapolis

box 65

Vadm George C. Dyer-Annapolis

box 66

Vadm George C. Dyer-Annapolis

box 67

Ventura County

box 67

Victoria Crossroads (Cadre)

box 67

Virginia Beach

box 67

Virginia Piedmont

box 67

Western North Carolina (Cadre) (defunct)

box 67

Whidbey Island (defunct)

box 67

White Sands (defunct)

box 67

Wichita

box 67

Wilmington, DE

box 67

Wilmington, NC (changed name to Col Bill Sheets)

box 67

Worcester

Bulletins

Departments

box 68

Arizona

box 68

California

box 69

California

box 70

Florida

box 70

Maryland

box 70

Oklahoma

box 70

Texas

box 70

Washington

box 70

Headquarters

Regions

box 71

I-VI

box 72

VII-XV

box 73

Circulars of Historian General 1957-1958

Committee file

box 73

Education 1983-1985

box 73

History and Archives undated

box 73

Correspondence 1932-1967

box 73

Founding documents.

Scope and Contents note

Includes material of the first national convention in Detroit, Michigan, in 1920

Histories

General

box 74

"A History of the Founding and First Years of the Military Order of the World Wars."

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

box 74

"History of the Military Order of the World Wars: ." 1919-1945

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

box 74

"History of the Military Order of the World Wars: ." 1946-1969

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

box 75

The History of the Military Order of the World Wars: Its First Fifty Years, by George C. Dyer.

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy

box 75

The Military Order of the World Wars, A Living History: Decade of the 1970s, by Karl B. Justus.

Scope and Contents note

Typescript and printed copy

box 75

The Military Order of the World Wars, A Living History: Decade of the 1980s, by Karl B. Justus.

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy

Chapters (by original name of chapter).

Scope and Contents note

Includes some bulletins

box 76

General.

Scope and Contents note

Includes instructions for chapter histories

box 76

Annapolis

box 77

Atlanta - Bradenton

box 78

Bradenton - Central Florida

box 79

Central New Jersey - Columbia

box 80

Dallas

box 81

Daytona - Easton

box 82

El Paso

box 83

Fort Walton Beach - Gunpowder

box 84

Hann-Buswell Memorial - Inland Empire

box 85

Jacksonville

box 86

La Jolla

box 87

La Jolla

box 88

La Jolla

box 89

La Jolla

box 90

La Jolla

box 91

La Jolla

box 92

La Jolla

box 93

La Jolla

box 94

La Jolla

box 95

La Jolla

box 96

La Jolla

box 97

La Jolla

box 98

La Jolla

box 99

Lee County - Long Beach

box 100

Long Beach

box 101

Long Beach - Louisville

box 102

Maine - Memphis

box 103

Miami - New Bedford

box 104

New Haven - Norfolk

box 105

North Virginia - Palo Alto

box 106

Peninsula

box 107

Peninsula - Philadelphia

box 108

Philadelphia

box 109

Phoenix

box 110

Pittsburgh

box 111

Pittsburgh

box 112

Pittsburgh

box 113

Portland - Roanoke

box 114

Sacramento - San Antonio

box 115

San Antonio

box 116

San Antonio

box 117

San Antonio - Santa Cruz Valley

box 118

Sarasota - Seattle

box 119

Seattle - Southwest Florida

box 120

St Louis - Worcester

Departments

box 121

California.

General note