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Title: Robert Dark Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1917-1964.
Collection number: 77078
Creator:
Dark, Robert, 1894-1976.
Collection Size: 2 manuscript boxes, 5 card file boxes, 6 envelopes, 2 oversize boxes (6.7 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Orders, correspondence, speeches, clippings, and photographs, relating to the U.S. Army in the Philippines, 1931-1932, the
activities of the 321st Infantry Regiment in the Pacific Theater, 1942-1946, and the invasion of Angaur and Peleliu Island,
1944.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Robert Dark Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1977.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
United States. Army--Officers.
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 321st.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
Philippines.
Philippines--Defenses.
| 1894 September | Born, North Carolina |
| 1912 | Joined United States Army as a private of the Cavalry branch |
| 1915 | Noncommissioned Officer, Coast Artillery Corps |
| 1917 | Second Lieutenant, Infantry branch |
| 1917-1919 | Served with American Expeditionary Force in France, attained rank of brevet Major |
| 1931-1932 | Served at Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands |
| 1932-1933 | Served at Vancouver Barracks, Washington |
| 1941 | Colonel, United States Army |
| 1942-1946 | Regimental commander, 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st Division, (1942-1944, trained in continental United States; 1944-1945, fought in Pacific campaigns, 1945-1946, served with occupation troops on Kyushu, Japan). |
| 1946 | Resigned from United States Army. |