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Title: Samuel Tankersley Williams papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1980
Collection Number: 81032
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
24 manuscript boxes, 9 envelopes, 9 sound tape reels
(10.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, orders, memoranda, reports, interview transcripts, conference notes, photographs, and sound recordings
relating to American military activities in the European Theater during World War II, Amerian military operations in the Korean
War, and American military assistance to South Vietnam.
Creator:
Williams, S. T. (Samuel Tankersley), 1897-1984
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1981.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Samuel Tankersley Williams papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Biographical Note
1897 August 25 |
Born, Denton, Texas |
1916-1917 |
Private in the Texas Militia |
1917 |
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Officers Reserve Corps |
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Attended Officers Training Camp, Leon Springs, Texas |
1917-1919 |
359th Infantry Regiment, France; fought in battles of St. Michel, Meuse-Argonne, and Toul Sector |
1920 |
Commissioned First Lieutenant in regular United States Army |
1925-1926 |
Attended Company Officers Course, Fort Benning, Georgia |
1926-1930 |
Captain, 21st Infantry Regiment, Hawaii |
1930-1931 |
Attended United States Army Infantry Officers Advance Course |
1933-1935 |
Attended United States Army Command and General Staff School |
1935-1937 |
Company commander, 29th Infantry Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia |
1937-1938 |
Attended Army War College |
1943-1944 |
Brigadier General, commander of the 378th Infantry Regiment and assistant division commander of the 90th Infantry Division,
France; landed on Utah Beach
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1944 |
Demoted from Brigadier General to Colonel |
1944-1945 |
G-3 of the XXII Corps, European Theater of Operations |
1946-1950 |
Commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment and acting commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division, Nuremberg |
1950-1952 |
Served in Operations and Training Office of the Army Field Forces, Fort Monroe, Virginia |
1951 |
Promoted to Brigadier General |
1952-1953 |
Commander of the 25th Infantry Division, Korea |
1953 |
Promoted to Major General |
1953-1954 |
Commander of the XVI Corps, Japan |
1954 |
Commander of the IX Corps and deputy commander of the Eighth Army, Korea |
1955 |
Deputy commander of the Fourth Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas |
1955 |
Promoted to Lieutenant General |
1955-1960 |
Chief of the Military Assistance and Advisory Group (MAAG), Vietnam |
1984 April 26 |
Died, San Antonio, Texas |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches, orders, memoranda, reports, interview transcripts, conference notes, photographs, and sound recordings
relating to American military activities in the European Theater during World War II, Amerian military operations in the Korean
War, and American military assistance to South Vietnam.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
Officers
Korean War, 1950-1953
Military assistance, American -- Vietnam
United States. Army
United States. Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam