Library and Archives

Resources (31)

• Alvan Cullom Gillem

  Papers, ca. 1888–1972, 16 boxes. Army officer. Served in Siberia in 1919–20. The transcript of a 1972 interview covers this subject in part. Other letters, reports, photos, maps, and clippings concern the Polish campaign of 1939, his tour with the XIII Corps in Europe in World War II, and his command of U.S. forces in China in 1946–47. (NUCMC 75–852)

• Armor Magazine

  Office files, 1861–1971, 9 boxes. Correspondence on, among other subjects, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

• Bruce Cooper Clarke

  Papers, 1941–78?, 6 boxes. Army officer. Commanded the U.S. Seventh Army and the U.S. Army in Europe. Bulk of the collection is speeches, essays, and articles on his philosophy of command and politics. Reminiscences cover the Cold War (German crisis of March-April 1962, resolved by his conference with Marshal Ivan Konev on 5 April). (NUCMC 75–827)

• Charles MacDonald (1873-1936)

  Papers, 1 box. Army officer. Contains material on his tour of duty on a transport carrying Czech and German soldiers from Vladivostok to Trieste in 1920.

• Donald V. Bennett

  Oral history, ca. 1940–74, 2 boxes. General. Memoirs mention 2 encounters with the Russians over Czechoslovakia. As lieutenant-colonel of the 62nd U.S. Armored Field Artillery Battalion, he helped occupy that country in 1945. As commanding general of the VII Corps, he confronted Russian forces that entered Czechoslovakia in August, 1968.

• Edward Larkins

  Papers, 1897–1971, 1 box. Engineer and army officer in various regiments. Includes his report on service with the American and Japanese forces in Siberia during the intervention, August-December 1918. Letter by Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinand Reder, one of the Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war whom he guarded in Siberia, praises him. Letter from his wife discusses her experiences during World War I and the Russian Revolution, 5 pp.

• Ernest Nason Harmon

  Papers, 1894–1965, 3 boxes. Army officer. Commanded occupation forces in Czechoslovakia, June-December 1945. Correspondents from this period include Russian commanders. Some post-war letters contain reminiscences of military operations. Also, memoirs, which became the basis for his published book Combat Commander (Prentice-Hall, 1970). (NUCMC 75–861)

• Floyd Lavinius Parks

  Papers, 1944–45, 2 boxes. Chief of staff and commanding general, First Allied Airborne Army and military district of Berlin. General Parks's diaries, 3 June-29 August 1945, cover in great detail his experiences as commander of American forces in Berlin and as American representative on the Allied Kommandatura for that city before, during, and after the Potsdam Conference.

• Frederick Edward Bury (1874-1969)

  Papers, 1898–1941, 1 box. Army officer. Served with the American Expeditionary Forces at Murmansk and Archangel in 1919. Part of the collection is official correspondence (about promotions, transfers, duty assignments) and military orders. Also, a scrapbook of clippings. Not much is on actual military operations. (NUCMC 75–814)

• Harold Keith Johnson (b. 1912)

  Collection, 1800–1968, 140 boxes. General. Student of military history, particularly of operations on the Russian front in World War II. Notes, speeches, and articles relate in part to this topic. (NUCMC 75–871)

• Harry Gilchrist

  Papers, 1920, 1 box. Colonel in the medical corps. Commanded the American Polish Relief Expedition in 1920. Some of the material contains references to the Russo-Polish War of 1920.

• Henry Cook (fl. ca. 1920)

  Papers, 1917–21, 1 box. Private in the 339th Infantry Regiment in World War I. Served in Russia, France, and England. Official papers and some printed matter relate to this service. (NUCMC 75–829)

• Ivan D. Yeaton

  Oral history, 1919–75, 1 box. Colonel. Recollections cover his tours as a lieutenant in the 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment in Siberia, 1919–20, and as military attache in Moscow, 1939–41. He also mentions his dealings with the Russophile General Philip Faymonville.

• John C. Burwell

  Papers, 1941–45, 1 box. Major in the Army Medical Corps. Memoirs discuss his medical service at the Russian repatriation camp in Cologne, Germany, in 1945.

• John E. Hull (1895-1973)

  Oral histories, 3 boxes. General. Service in the military committee of the Yalta Conference in 1945 is 1 of the subjects discussed in his 2 autobiographies.

• John J. Maginnis

  Papers, 3 boxes. Colonel. Wartime diary, supplemented by postwar reminiscences, recounts his service with civil affairs, military government detachments in Europe during and just after World War II. He dealt with Russian refugees behind American lines and with Russian forces in Berlin.

• Joseph Burwell Longuevan

  Papers, 1917–78, 10 boxes. Sergeant in the 31st U.S. Infantry Regiment. Served in Russia during and immediately after World War I. Letters, reminiscences, and miscellaneous documents center on the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (especially the 27th and 31st infantry regiments) but also units in Murmansk and Archangel. Some items are contemporaneous with the period of the Revolution and Civil War, 1918–20; most come from a later time, when veterans of the Siberian expedition (some famous by then) corresponded. Many references to World War II, Viet Nam War, Cold War, and particularly the Korean War. See also under Nick Hociota. (NUCMC 75–887)

• Lawrence J. Lincoln

  Papers, 1921–71, 1 box. Army officer, member of the Joint U.S.-Soviet Commission for Korea. Includes a commentary, ca. 1947–49, on a book concerning China in World War II and the Soviet-American occupation of Korea, 1945–47. He discusses the restoration of Korean home rule. (NUCMC 75–883)

• Lucius D. Clay

  Oral history, ca. 1918–49, 2 boxes. Military governor of the U.S. Zone of Germany and the commander in chief/European Command, 1947–49. General Clay frequently mentions, in his recollections, his confrontations with the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.

• Mark W. Clark

  Oral history, ca. 1917–53, 2 boxes. General. Reminiscences cover his dealings with the Russians as U.S. high commissioner for Austria, 1945–47, and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the quadripartite Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Moscow in 1947.

• McCann Collection on "Women in Uniform."

  2 albums, 1938–44. Primarily newspaper clippings and brochures. In part pertaining to women in Soviet armed forces.

• Michael S. Davison

  Oral history, 1939–75, 5 boxes. General. Memoirs record his impressions of the Russians with whom he dealt while he commanded the Seventh Army and the Central Army Group, 1971–75. Access restricted.

• Nick Hociota (Hochee) (1891-1969)

  (American Expeditionary Force—Siberia). Collection, ca. 1919, 18 items. Corporal of the 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment. Concerning the American intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War there are: 2 reminiscences by Hociota; reminiscences of Sergeant J. B. Longuevan (31st Infantry Regiment); memoirs by Sergeant Sam Richardson (medical corps); letter from Lieutenant Rodney S. Sprigg (replacement battalion) to his wife, 3 March 1919, Vladivostok; and 2 reminiscences of Captain Adlai C. Young (27th Infantry Regiment). See also under Joseph Burwell Longuevan.

• Peyton C. March

  Papers, 1904–34, 1 box. Captain, military observer with the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War. Later, U.S. Army chief of staff. Includes a lecture, 6 April 1934, he gave at the Army War College in which he discusses his career, focusing on tsarist and Soviet Russia and the Russo-Japanese War, Allied and American relations with Russia in World War I, and the Russian Revolution (especially the Siberian intervention). He also spoke of the prospects of war between Russia and Japan in the 1930s.

• Reports of military observers attached to the armies in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. (1903-1908).

  5 v. in 4. : ill. ; 24 cm. Catalog record: http://usahec.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.1&pos=1

• S. Kh. Aganov. The Engineering Corps of the Soviet Army, 1918-1945

  (ca. 1985-1990). Typescript (29 cm.) Translation of: Inzhenernye voĭska Sovetskoĭ Armii 1918-1945. At head of title: Institute of Military Affairs. Includes bibliographical references.

• Sidney R. Hinds

  Papers, 1920–74, 5 boxes. Army officer. A small part of the papers contains information about contacts in the 1950s-1960s between American and Soviet veterans who had first met on the Elbe in 1945.

• Sonntag Family

  Papers, 1786–1841, 1 folder. Includes material concerning George Sonntag, who joined the Russian navy (after 1808), served on the Black Sea, and commanded a regiment of marines against Napoleon, 1812–14. He was later governor of the port of Odessa and admiral of the Black Sea fleet. Includes some comments about him by Russian officials. (Part of the Halstead-Maus Papers)

• Thomas T. Handy

  Oral history, 1918–54, 2 boxes. General. Recollections of his service as commander in chief and deputy commander in chief/European Command, 1949–54, refer to various aspects of the Cold War, including the Berlin Blockade. Restricted.

• U.S. Army War College

  Records, 1908–78, ca. 1,700 boxes. Archives of the Army's senior educational institution. Course material, student papers, plans, and lectures, some of which refer to or focus upon Russia and the Soviet Union. Also available are reports on the Soviet Union prepared by the Intelligence Division, U.S. War Department General Staff in the 1930s.

• World War I Survey

  1917–21, 175 boxes. Within this collection, 1 box contains memoirs and letters by soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force, Siberia. Most material received so far concerns the 31st U.S. Infantry Regiment. One reminiscence deals with the 146th U.S. Ordnance Depot Company. The diary of Lieutenant Douglas Osborn of the 31st recounts his experiences in Vladivostok and along the Trans-Siberian Railroad, 25 February6 October 1919 and 13 January-7 February 1920, 5 vols.