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Title: John R. Chaisson Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1940-1975.
Collection number: 73066
Creator:
Chaisson, John R., 1916-1972.
Collection Size: 17 manuscript boxes, 9 envelopes, 20 phonotapes (10 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, appointment books, speeches and writings, notes, reports, memoranda, oral history transcript, sound
recordings, photographs, and printed matter, relating to manpower and budgetary requirements of the U.S. Marine Corps, the
Vietnamese Conflict, and U.S. Marine Corps activities during World War II, in China during 1948-1949, in Korea during 1953-1954,
and in Vietnam during 1966-1968.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], John R. Chaisson Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1973.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
United States. Marine Corps--Officers.
Korean War, 1950-1953.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--China.
China.
China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
United States--Armed Forces.
Phonotapes.
| 1916, September 27 | Born, Swampscott, Massachusetts |
| 1939 | A.B., Harvard University |
| 1942-1945, 1953-1954 | Assigned to 1st Marine Division |
| 1966-1968 | Assigned to service in Vietnam |
| 1971 | Promoted to Lieutenant General, USMC |
| 1971-1972 | Chief of Staff, U.S. Marine Corps |