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Title: Frank Dorn Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1927-1976
Collection number: 84007
Creator:
Dorn, Frank
Collection Size: 6 manuscript boxes, 28 envelopes (5.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs, correspondence, writings, memoranda, orders, and photographs, relating to
General Joseph W. Stilwell, American military operations in the China-Burma-India Theater
during World War II, and ethnology in the Philippines.
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Frank Dorn Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1984.
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.
Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946
United States. Army--Officers
Ethnology--Philippines
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Burma
World War, 1939-1945--China
China
Philippines
United States--Armed Forces
| 1901, June 25 | Born, San Francisco, California |
| 1912-1915 | Studied violin |
| 1915-1918 | Student, San Francisco Insitute of Art |
| 1923 | Graduate, U.S. Military Academy, West Point |
| 1926 | Assigned to Philippine Islands |
| 1935 | Author, Forest Twilight |
| 1936-1938 | Military Attache's Office, Peking, China |
| 1939 | Promoted to Major |
| 1939-1945 | Aide and Public Information Officer for General Joseph Stilwell, 7th Division, III Corps, Headquarters China-Burma-India |
| 1942 | Promoted to Colonel |
| 1944 | Promoted to Brigadier General |
| 1946-1949 | Assistant Commandant and Acting Commandant, Army Information School and Armed Forces Information School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania |
| 1950-1951 | Office of the Chief of Information, Department of the Army |
| 1953 | Retirement |
| Author, The Dorn Cookbook | |
| 1954-1957 | Exhibits of paintings of Frank Dorn in: California; Galerie Andre Weil, Paris; Instituto de Cultura Hispanica, Madrid; Instituto Mexicano-Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, Mexico City |
| 1958 | Author, Just A Pinch |