Register of the Wade H. Haislip Papers, 1941-1972.

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Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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Register of the Wade H. Haislip Papers, 1941-1972.

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

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Encoded by:: James Ryan.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Wade H. Haislip Papers

Date (inclusive): 1941-1972

Collection number: 74061

Creator: Haislip, Wade H. (Wade Hampton), 1889-1971.

Collection Size: 2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope, 1 album box, memorabilia (3.7 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

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.

Language: English.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Wade H. Haislip Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1974.

Accruals

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Access Points

United States. Army--Officers.

United States. Army. Army, 7th.

United States. Army. Corps, XV.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western.

United States--Armed Forces.

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

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE, 1945-1968

Box 1.

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

Bemberg, Madame

Bradley, General Omar

Brooke, Sir Basil

Clark, General Mark W.

Coulter, Major General John B.

Devers, General Jacob L.

Dietrich, Marlene

Eisenhower, General Dwight D.

Kellogg, Colonel Hamilton H.

Leclerc, General Jacques-Phillipe (France)

Lee, Lieutenant General Robert M.

Littlejohn, General Robert M.

Lovett, Brigadier General Ralph B.

Marshall, General George C.

McNair, Lieutenant General Lesley J.

Pancake, William C.

Patton, Lieutenant General George S.

Rixey, Brigadier General George F.

Wheeler, Lieutenant General Raymond A.

Wilson, General Arthur

Wyman, General William C.

Alphabetical file, 1945-1968

Ditzen, Lowell R.

Maule, Henry R.

Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.

Nichols, Lee

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1945-1946

Box 1.

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

"General Eisenhower,'s Life."

SUBJECT FILE, 1941-1972

Box 1.

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

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

Biographical file

Churchill, Winston, greets Army ahd Navy officers, 1946

Citations and awards

L'Ecole Superieure De Guerre, alumni bulletin, 1965

XV Corps in France

XV Corps in World War II

Memorabilia

Box 2.

News clipping

Orders

General orders, 1941-1945

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

Personnel security questionnaire

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

United States Military Academy report, "Assembly," 1972

United States War Department General Staff, file

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 on shelf

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

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