Register of the Wade H. Haislip papers

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Title: Wade H. Haislip papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1972
Collection Number: 74061
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope, 1 album box, memorabilia (3.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, orders, awards, citations, photographs, clippings, and printed matter, relating to American military activities in the European Theater during World War II, and to postwar administration of the Army.
Creator: Haislip, Wade H. (Wade Hampton), 1889-1971
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1974.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Wade H. Haislip Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note.

1889, December 22 Born, Woodstock, Virginia
1912 B.S., U.S.M.A., West Point, N.Y.
1917-1918 Assigned to Third Division
1927 Graduate, Ecole Superieure de Guerre
1942 Promoted to Major General
1943-1945 Commanding General of XV Corps
1945 President of the Secretary of War's Personnel Board
1949 Promoted to General; Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
Officers
United States. Army
United States. Army. Army, 7th
United States. Army. Corps, 15th

 

CORRESPONDENCE, 1945-1968

 

Chronological file, letters sent and received, 1944-1945. Correspondence includes among others:

box 1

Bemberg, Madame

box 1

Bradley, General Omar

box 1

Brooke, Sir Basil

box 1

Clark, General Mark W.

box 1

Coulter, Major General John B.

box 1

Devers, General Jacob L.

box 1

Dietrich, Marlene

box 1

Eisenhower, General Dwight D.

box 1

Kellogg, Colonel Hamilton H.

box 1

Leclerc, General Jacques-Phillipe (France)

box 1

Lee, Lieutenant General Robert M.

box 1

Littlejohn, General Robert M.

box 1

Lovett, Brigadier General Ralph B.

box 1

Marshall, General George C.

box 1

McNair, Lieutenant General Lesley J.

box 1

Pancake, William C.

box 1

Patton, Lieutenant General George S.

box 1

Rixey, Brigadier General George F.

box 1

Wheeler, Lieutenant General Raymond A.

box 1

Wilson, General Arthur

box 1

Wyman, General William C.

 

Alphabetical file, 1945-1968

box 1

Ditzen, Lowell R.

box 1

Maule, Henry R.

box 1

Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.

box 1

Nichols, Lee

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1945-1946

box 1

"To Officers and Men of XV Corps, Commemorating the Capture of Nurnberg," 21 April, 1945

box 1

"General Eisenhower,'s Life."

 

SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1972

box 1

"Army Green Uniform," S. J. Kennedy and Alice Park

box 1

"Battle of National Redoubt," R. E. Jenkins, 1946

box 1

Biographical file

box 1

Churchill, Winston, greets Army and Navy officers, 1946

box 1

Citations and awards

box 1

L'Ecole Superieure De Guerre, alumni bulletin, 1965

box 1

XV Corps in France

box 1

XV Corps in World War II

box 1

Memorabilia

box 2

News clipping

 

Orders

box 2

General orders, 1941-1945

box 2

Special orders, combat reports, XV Corps, 1944-1945

box 2

Personnel security questionnaire

box 2

President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, notebook containing proposals, 1953

box 2

United States Military Academy report, "Assembly," 1972

box 2

United States War Department General Staff, file

box 2

West, O. B., "Atlantic Wall to Siegfried Line, A Study In Command," military operations and strategic matters within the Western Theater of Operations, World War II, and descriptions of the German Operations, World War II, and descriptions of the German Commanders involved, includes Generals: Blumentritt; von Buttlar; von Rundstedt; Speidel; and Zimmermann

 

OVERSIZE MATERIAL

box 3

United States Army, 100th Infantry Division in the European Theater of Operations

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

envelope A

12 prints of General Wade H. Haislip in group and individual photos, including 1 print of nine former Seventh Army Commanders taken at Heidelberg, Germany, 1968; 1 group photo of General Haislip with Generals George S. Patton and Jacques-Phillipe Leclerc, circa 1945.

album fB

Photo album presented to General Haislip in Commemoration of the visit of the former Seventh Army Commanders to the Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft in Stuttgart, Germany, November 11-13, 1968

box 4

Undescribed letters relating to American military operations in the European Theater during World War II 1944-1945