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Title: Ivan D. Yeaton Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1979
Collection number: 76013
Creator:
Yeaton, Ivan D.
Collection Size:
7 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 7 envelopes
4.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs, reports, memoranda, correspondence, orders and citations, charts, and
photographs, relating to his military career; Soviet military strength in 1941;
Soviet-American relations, 1941-1949; organization of American military intelligence
during World War II; lend-lease operations;American relations with the Chinese
communists, 1944-1946; and theinspection of United States Army procurement contracts,
1952-1953
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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Memoirs may not be quoted without the written permission of I. D. Yeaton
[Identification of item], Ivan D. Yeaton Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1976.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
United States. Army--Officers.
United States. Army--Procurement.
United States. Observer Mission to Yenan, 1944-1945.
Communism.
Communism--China.
Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
China.
China--Foreign relations--United States.
China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Armed Forces.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Armed Forces.
Military attaches.
| 1919-1920 | Lieutenant, American Expeditionary Force Siberia |
| 1939-1941 | Military Attaché, Moscow |
| 1942 | Promoted to Colonel, U.S. Army |
| 1942-1945 | Specialist, Military Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff |
| 1945 | Chief of Intelligence, Headquarters, China Theater |
| 1945-1946 | Commanding Officer, Yenan Observer Group, Shensi Province |
| 1946 | Assistant Military Attaché, Shanghai |
| 1947 | Assistant Director of Counter Intelligence, General Headquarters, Far East Command, Tokyo |
| 1948-1949 | Chief, Psychological Warfare Section, Plans and Operations Division, General Staff |
| 1949-1950 | Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans and Intelligence, Sixth Army, Headquarters, Presidio of San Francisco |
| 1952-1953 | Chief, Detroit Field Office, Army Inspector General |