Register of the Robert H. Adleman papers

Finding aid prepared by Ronald M. Bulatoff

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Title: Robert H. Adleman papers

Date (inclusive): 1939-1970

Collection Number: 72075

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 18 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope, 28 sound tape reels (10.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, questionnaires, transcripts of interviews, drafts of writings, galleys, research notes, sound tape reels, photographs, and maps relating primarily to the First Special Service Force (composed of American and Canadian troops) and its operations in Italy and Southern France during World War II. Used as research material for the books by R. H. Adleman, The Devil's Brigade, Rome Fell Today, and The Champagne Campaign.

Creator: Adleman, Robert H., 1919-1995

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

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Robert H. Adleman papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1919 May 7	Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1937-1939	Student, Rutgers University
1941-1945	U.S. Army Air Forces Received Air Medal and Presidential Unit Citation
1948	LL. B., Temple University
1966	Author, The Devil's Brigade
1968	Author, Rome Fell Today
1969	Author, The Champagne Campaign
1970	Author, The Bloody Benders
1995	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, questionnaires, transcripts of interviews, drafts of writings, galleys, research notes, sound tape reels, photographs, and maps relating primarily to the First Special Service Force (composed of American and Canadian troops) and its operations in Italy and Southern France during World War II. Used as research material for the books by R. H. Adleman, The Devil's Brigade, Rome Fell Today, and The Champagne Campaign.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Audiotapes

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy

Anzio, Battle of, Anzio, Italy, 1944

Allied Forces. Special Service Force, 1st

box 1

CORRESPONDENCE 1945-1970

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1966-1970

"The Devil's Brigade"

box 1

Research notes, drafts, etc.

box 2

Research notes, drafts, etc.

"The Champagne Campaign"

Research notes, drafts, etc.

box 3

Research notes, drafts, etc.

"Rome Fell Today"

box 18

Galleys

box 4

Research notes, drafts, etc.

box 5

Research notes, drafts, etc.

box 6

Research notes, drafts, etc.

Miscellaneous drafts

SUBJECT FILE 1940-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, interviews, questionnaires, and research notes, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 6

The AAF in the invasion of Southern France

Airborne Operations

Alpes - Maritimes

Anderson, Colonel Kingsley (diaries)

box 7

Anderson, Colonel Kingsley (diaries)

Anzio to Rome (Battle, 1944)

Bibliography (computer card file)

"A Bolt from the Blue, 1941-1945"

Cannes (France)

"Champagne Campaign"

Command Missions

Criminality

box 8

88th Infantry Division

85th Division

5th Army - Unit reports

1st Airborne Task Force, Headquarters

1st Regiment - Interviews

First Special Service Force

Memoranda

Reports

Records

Press releases

box 9

Publications

Radio broadcasts

First Special Service Forcemen

Miscellaneous

Recollections

Reunions

550th Battalion

509th Parachute Infantry Battalion

General

Interviews

Questionnaires

box 10

517th Regiment

"Five Years, Five Countries, Five Campaigns with the 141st Infantry Regiment"

45th Division

442nd Infantry Regiment

460th Parachute FA

IV Corps

Frederick, General Robert T.

"The French Drive on Rome"

"From the Riviera to the Vosges in 30 Days"

German propaganda dropped at Anzio

Headquarters - Interviews

Index

box 11

Intelligence Operations

Interviews

Miscellaneous

box 12

Miscellaneous

Legault, Conrad

Maps

Military service for prisoners and former prisoners

Monaco

Nice (France)

"Operation of Fate" (Hollis)

Ovenden, A. W. (diary)

Page, Getty (Director, American Red Cross)

"Plough Project"

Pyke, Geoffrey

Regional Liaison Detachment "B" - Civil Affairs (Nice, France)

Report for "Operation Dragoon," 1944 August 22

box 13

Report of Operations - II Corps in Italy

Rome - Capture of

"Rome Journal"

Second Regiment

Interviews

box 14

Interviews

Selective Service System

Service (Maintenance) - Interviews

7th Army in France and Germany 1944-1945

Seventh Army Operations in Europe 1944 August 15

Shinberger, John Baird

VI Corps

Southern France - Invasion of

1st Airborne Task Force

box 15

1st Airborne Task Force

3rd Division

3rd Regiment - Interviews

34th Division

36th Division

General

Miscellaneous

Questionnaires

box 16

U.S. military collaboration with Canada - World War II

Walton, Lieutenant Colonel George

box 17

CLIPPINGS 1940-1970

box 17

MISCELLANEOUS

envelope A

PHOTOGRAPHS circa 1939-1945

Scope and Contents note

24 prints dealing with the First Special Service Force (US and Canadian troops) and its operations in Italy and Southern France during World War II.

SOUND RECORDINGS

reel 1-3

The Champagne Campaign sound recordings

Access

Use copy reference number: 72075_a_0004424

Rome Fell Today

reel 4

Part 1 (Clark)

reel 5

Part 2 (Clark)

reel 6

Part 3 (Clark - Telephone)

reel 7

Part 4 (Eric Severeid)

reel 8

Part 5 (General Porter)

reel 9

Part 6

reel 10

Part 7

reel 11

Part 8

reel 12

Part 9

reel 13

Part 10

reel 14

Part 11

reel 15

Part 12

Rhone Valley (originals)

reel 16

Brigadier General Warner

reel 16

Lieutenant General Quinn

reel 16

Colonel Goinsboorgh

reel 17

Interview with Colonel William Wyant, Washington, D.C. 1968 October 30

reel 18-19

Colonel Alfred Howes

reel 20

Major General David G. Barr, Chief of Staff 6th Army Group

reel 21-22

Major General Eagles

reel 23-25

Major General Arthur A. White

reel 26-28

General Jacob Devers