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Title: Haydon L. Boatner Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1932-1975
Collection number: 74020
Creator:
Boatner, Haydon L. (Haydon Lemaire), 1900-1977.
Collection Size: 8 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes (3.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, maps, notes, photographs, and printed matter, relating to military strategy and
operations in the China-Burma-India Theater, and to the United Nations prisoner of war camps during the Korean War.
Language:
English.
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Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1974.
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United States. Army--Officers.
Korean War, 1950-1953--Prisoners and prisons.
Prisoners of war.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
China.
| 8 October 1900 | Born, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1918 | Enlisted, U.S. Marine Corps |
| 1919-1920 | Student, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1920-1924 | Graduate, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York |
| 1930-1934 | Chinese Language Student and Assistant Military Attache, American Embassy, Peking, China |
| 1942 | Promoted to Brigadier General |
| 1942 | Commanded General Stilwell's headquarters at Lashio, Burma, China-Burma-India Theater |
| 1942 | Commander, Chabua-Ledo Sector, China-Burma-India Theater |
| 1942-1945 | Chief of Staff, Chinese Army in India |
| 1943-1945 | Commanding General of Combat Troops, Ledo Sector, China-Burma-India Theater |
| 1945 | Chief of Staff, Chinese Combat Command, Kunming, China |
| 1948-1951 | Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Commandant of Cadets, A. & M. College of Texas |
| 1951-1953 | Deputy Commanding General, 2nd Division, Korea |
| 1952 | Commandant, P.O.W. Camp Koie Do, Korea (80,000 prisoners) |
| 1952 | Commandant, United Nations Prisoner of War Command, Korea (180,000 prisoners) |
| 1952 | Promoted to Major General |
| 1952 | Commanding General of Prisoners of War, Pusan |
| 1952-1954 | Deputy Commanding General, 4th Army |
| 1957-1960 | Provost Marshal General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. |
| 1960 | Retired as Major General |