Gruber (William Rudolph) papers

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Table of contents

Military Career File, 1918-1957

Scope and Contents note

Citations, recommendations, certificates, correspondence, reports, memoranda, and an autobiographical sketch pertaining to Gruber's military career, including his promotions, assignments, decorations (notably the Silver Star with Third Oak Leaf Cluster and the French Croix de Guerre), leaves of absence, and retirement.

box 1, folder 1

Citations, recommendations, and correspondence regarding military decorations 1918-1957

box 4, folder 1

Citations, certificates, and records of military decorations and promotions 1918-1944

box 1, folder 2

Promotions, assignments, leaves of absence, and retirement, 1935-1946

World War I File 1918-1928

box 1, folder 3

Printed matter 1918-1928

Scope and Contents note

Includes General Orders Nos. 53 and 88 of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Citation Orders No. 2 (AEF), and mongraphs highlighting the French campaigns in the Champagne region in World War I.

box 1, folder 4

Battle of Blanc Mont, 1918-1922

Scope and Contents note

Materials about Blanc Mont in the Battle of Blanc Mont of the Second Field Artillery Brigade written by Gruber, as well as American Expeditionary Forces Citation Orders No. 8 and monographs published by the United States War Office, such as "A Study in Battle Formation," and "Blanc Mont."

World War II File 1938-1975

box 1, folder 5

Pearl Harbor military analysis, 1938-1947

Scope and Contents note

Reports, clippings, and analysis on the possibility of an attack on Pearl Harbor.

Includes declassified records returned to file after July 2015 release by Hoover.

box 1, folder 6-7

China-Burma-India Theater, 1942-1972

Scope and Contents note

Includes reports, military analysis, transcripts of wire communications between General Joseph Stilwell and Gruber, as well as reports and muster rolls of the Tenth U.S. Airforce and members of the National Military Council, including Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

Includes declassified records returned to file after July 2015 release by Hoover.

box 2, folder 1

Army housing project in Hawaii and clippings, 1940-1956

box 2, folder 2

"The United States Army and the China-Burma-India Theater, Chapter III," review manuscript and correspondence, 1940-1950

Scope and Contents note

Memoranda, chronologies, reports, inventory of United States and Chinese forces, tables and schedules, and drafts for messages to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, as well as a proposed plan for opening a second front under Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell. Also includes a letter and manuscript from the Department of the Army, Special Staff of the Historical Division for review.

Panama Canal File 1931-1979

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, agendas, and reports of the United States and Panama Canal Zone governments with regards to foreign visits and the Panama Canal Company. Included with the correspondence are listings of Panama Canal Company board members, reports, inquiries, and printed matter.

box 2, folder 3

1931-1933

Scope and Contents note

Some materials regarding the visit of Governor Burgess and President Arias to the Canal, with agenda and reports.

box 2, folder 4

1931-1938

box 2, folder 5

1951-1955

box 2, folder 6

1955-1979

box 3, folder 1

Printed matter, 1970-1975

Scope and Contents note

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries report and congressional hearings and Panama Canal Company annual reports for 1974 and 1975.

Correspondence 1920-1962

Scope and Contents note

Organized according to Gruber's original arrangement.

box 3, folder 2

Personal 1920-1946

Scope and Contents note

Letters sent and received by Gruber to a variety of personal contacts, including Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and informal letters from General Douglas MacArthur.

box 3, folder 3

Professional, 1935 - 1968

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence with Chiang Kai-shek, General Douglas MacArthur, George H. Dern (United States War Secretary), and presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Hoover.

Writings 1936-1970

box 3, folder 4

"The Foreign Relations of the United States," 1936

box 3, folder 5

Reports, articles, correspondence, clippings, and research materials, 1947-1970

Photographs 1911-1978

box 3, folder 6

Family and historical scenes 1911-1978

Scope and Contents note

Depictions of Gruber, his wife Helen, and figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt (during a 1934 visit to the Panama Canal), as well as World War I battles and the Panama Canal.

Includes declassified records returned to file after July 2015 release by Hoover.

box 4, folder 2

Portraits 1918-1934

Scope and Contents note

Larger format photographs of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, United States War Secretary George Dern, and General Douglas MacArthur.

box 5

Views of the Grand Coulee and the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington 1934

Access

Box 5 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Scope and Contents

Presented by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Photographs by Kenneth S. Brown.

Maps, 1918-1971

Scope and Contents note

Annotated military maps and research maps of Asia, France, the Panama Canal, and the United States.

box 4, folder 3

Burma, China, Panama Canal and the United States 1934-1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes declassified records returned to file after July 2015 release by Hoover.

map_case case

Annotated military analysis maps 1918-1971 1922-1928

Collection Contents

Military Career File,

World War I File

World War II File

Panama Canal File

Correspondence

Writings

Photographs

Maps,