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Title: Frank McAdams Albrecht Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1928-1965
Collection Number: 68013
Creator:
Albrecht, Frank McAdams, 1901-
Collection Size: 8 manuscript boxes (3.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Orders, reports, correspondence, and drafts of speeches, relating to U.S. military
engineering in the European Theater during World War II and in the U.S. in the interwar
period.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English
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[Identification of item], Frank McAdams Albrecht Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1968.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
United States. Army--Officers.
Military engineering.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Engineering and construction.
United States--Armed Forces.
| 1901, June 11 | Born, Denver, Colorado |
| 1923 | B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York |
| 1926 | Degree in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| 1926 | Married Page Williams of San Antonio, Texas |
| 1939 | The Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Regular Course |
| 1942 | Colonel |
| 1942 | Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer's Office of the Services of Supply in the European Theater of Operations in England. Later Deputy Chief Engineer for Planning |
| 1943 | Senior U.S. Logistical Officer on the early Joint-Combined Staff, which became General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters. He was the logistics member of a team that presented the original Overlord Plan for the Allied Invasion |
| 1943 | Chief of Staff of the Forward Echelon of the Communications Zone |
| 1944 | At the U.S. element of the Allied Control of Germany. Responsible for planning for the demobilization of the German Army under Allied control and other demilitarization measures |
| 1945 | Engineer of the Fourth Army |
| 1953 | Brigadier General |
| 1953-1955 | Chief Engineer, U.S. Army, Europe |
| 1955 | In Charge of logistics for Exercise SAGEBRUSH. Director of Plans and Programs in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the Army General Staff in Washington, D.C. |
| 1957 | Major General |
| 1959 | Division Engineer for the Corps of Engineers in the Southeast United States, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Panama |
Scope and Content of Collection
Orders, reports, correspondence, and drafts of speeches, relating to U.S. military
engineering in the European Theater during World War II and in the U.S. in the interwar
period.