Preliminary Inventory to the Frank Seymoure Ross papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Title: Frank Seymoure Ross papers

Date (inclusive): 1942-1954

Collection Number: 60015

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 20 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes (9.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, minutes of meetings, notes, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps in Europe during World War II

Creator: Ross, Frank S. (Frank Seymoure), 1893-1970

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1960.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Frank Seymoure Ross Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, notes, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps in Europe during World War II.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Officers

World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation

Transport service

United States. Army

U.S. Army Transportation Corps, OCOFT, minutes of meetings

box 1

April 14, 1943 - June 3, 1944

box 1

September 17, 1944 - June 30, 1945

box 1

July 1 - December 3, 1945

U.S. Army Transportation Corps, minutes of daily conferences

box 1

June 12 - December 31, 1945

box 1

January 1 - February 20, 1946

General Ross' comments on daily meetings

box 1

April 14, 1943 - May 18, 1944

box 1

September 17, 1944 - June 29, 1945

X-Ray files 1-4 (Closed Circuit telephone conferences)

box 2

July 24, 1943 - February 27, 1944

box 2

(A) February 28 - June 21, 1944

box 2

(B) February 28 - July 24, 1944

box 2

August 10 - October 10, 1944

box 3

November 5, 1944 - March 10, 1945

box 3

March 29 - August 31, 1945

box 3

September 1, 1945 - February 12, 1946

Chronological files

box 3

May 1 - June 5, 1943

box 3

May 1 - June 30, 1943

box 3

June 30 - August 13, 1943

box 4

July 1 - September 30, 1943

box 4

October 1, 1943 - February 15, 1944

box 4

February 16 - August 5, 1944

box 4

August 12 - October 11, 1944

box 5

August 12 - October 11, 1944

box 5

October 12, 1944 - January 12, 1945

box 5

January 13 - April 15, 1945

box 5

April 16 - June 30, 1945

box 6

July 1 - September 30, 1945

box 6

October 1 - December 31, 1945

box 6

January 1 - February 15, 1946

Personal correspondence

box 6

August 15, 1942 - June 25, 1943

box 6

January 1 - June 28, 1945

box 6

June 2 - December 30, 1945

Frank S. Ross - Charles P. Gross

box 7

July 8, 1942 - June 30, 1943

box 7

July 1, 1943 - April 19, 1945

box 7

June 9, 1944 - June 19, 1945

Frank S. Ross - James R. Washington

box 7

June 11, 1942 - June 22, 1943

box 7

July 3, 1943 - May 26, 1944

box 7

June 1, 1944 - June 26, 1945

Ceremonies, speeches and press conferences

box 7

January 10 - May 3, 1944

box 7

July 1944 - June 1945

box 7

July 22 - December 31, 1945

Commendations

box 7

June 1943 - June 1944

box 7

July 1944 - June 1945

box 7

July 1945

box 8

Directives from headquarters July 1945

box 8

Telegrams, Radiograms, Cablegrams March 24, 1945 - February 21, 1946

box 8

Marine operations May 29, 1942 - June 14, 1943

Marine Operations and Inland Waterways

box 8

July 6, 1943 - May 25, 1944

box 8

June 14, 1944 - May 31, 1945

box 8

Water Deployment of U.S. Troops May 8 - December 31, 1945

Railways

box 8

July 1, 1943 - May 17, 1944

box 8

July 8, 1944 - June 26, 1945

box 8

July 1, 1945 - February 20, 1946

Weekly Military Shipments Priority Meetings

box 9

March 24 - June 30, 1945

box 9

July 1, 1945 - January 24, 1946

box 9

Mission, Operating Procedure, Route and Statistics on L. C. Express Hauls 1944

box 9

"XYZ" Motor Transport Support Plan 1945

box 9

General Board - U.S. Army Forces in the European Theatre

box 9

Operation, Organization, Supply and Services of the Transportation Corps in Europe, Study #122 1944

box 9

Military Railway Service, Study #123

box 9

Procedures for the Control of Supply and Personnel Movements, Study #124

box 9

Motor Transport Service as a permanent part of the Transportation Corps,Study #125

box 10

Critique of Logistic Support of the Armies by R.G. Ruppenthal

Miscellaneous files

box 10

1942 - May 1943

box 10

June 1943 - June 1944

box 10

July 1944 - June 1945

History of the Transportation Corps in the European Theatre of Operations

June 1942 - December 1943

box 11

Part 1

box 11

Part 2

box 11

Part 3

Historical report on the Transportation Corps in the European Theatre of Operations

box 11

January - March 1944

box 12

April - June 1944

box 12

(Battle of France) June - September 1944

October - December 1944

box 12

Part 1

box 13

Part 2

box 13

Part 3

January - March 1945

box 13

Part 1

box 13

Part 2

box 14

Part 3

April - June 1945

box 14

Part 1

box 15

Part 2

box 15

Part 3

June - September 1945

box 16

Part 1

box 16

Part 2

box 16

Part 3

box 17

Part 4

box 17

October 1945

box 17

November 1945

box 18

December 1945

box 18

January 1945

box 19

February 1945

box 19

Statistical tables on the Transportation Corps in the European Theatre of Operations 1942-1945

Weekly Newsletters

box 19

Volume 1 October 30, 1944 - June 25, 1945

box 19

Volume 2 June 25 - December 31, 1945

Stories of Transportation

box 20

Volume 1 October 1, 1944 - June 1, 1945

box 20

Volume 2 June 1 - December 3, 1945

box 20

Historical Critique of the United Kingdom Overlord Movements November 1, 1945

box 20

German Railway Operations under the U.S. Army May 8 - December 31, 1945

box 20

Administrative History of the Operation of the 21st Army Group on the Continent of Europe June 6, 1944 - May 8, 1945

Photo albums

Scope and Contents

3 albums in total of Railway Reconnaissance Photographs depicting railroads after destruction and under reconstruction, mostly in France. Transportation Corps photos. Prints are labeled.

box 21

Railway reconnaissance photo albums 1944 June-July, September-November

box 22

Railway reconnaissance photo albums 1944 December-1945 May