Frank McAdams Albrecht papers, 1928-1965

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Summary

Creators:
Albrecht, Frank McAdams, 1901-
Abstract:
Orders, reports, correspondence, and drafts of speeches, relating to U.S. military engineering in the European Theater during World War II and in the U.S. in the interwar period.
Extent:
8 manuscript boxes (3.2 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Frank McAdams Albrecht Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

Orders, reports, correspondence, and drafts of speeches, relating to U.S. military engineering in the European Theater during World War II and in the U.S. in the interwar period.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1901, June 11
Born, Denver, Colorado
1923
B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
1926
Degree in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1926
Married Page Williams of San Antonio, Texas
1939
The Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Regular Course
1942
Colonel
1942
Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer's Office of the Services of Supply in the European Theater of Operations in England. Later Deputy Chief Engineer for Planning
1943
Senior U.S. Logistical Officer on the early Joint-Combined Staff, which became General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters. He was the logistics member of a team that presented the original Overlord Plan for the Allied Invasion
1943
Chief of Staff of the Forward Echelon of the Communications Zone
1944
At the U.S. element of the Allied Control of Germany. Responsible for planning for the demobilization of the German Army under Allied control and other demilitarization measures
1945
Engineer of the Fourth Army
1953
Brigadier General
1953-1955
Chief Engineer, U.S. Army, Europe
1955
In Charge of logistics for Exercise SAGEBRUSH. Director of Plans and Programs in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the Army General Staff in Washington, D.C.
1957
Major General
1959
Division Engineer for the Corps of Engineers in the Southeast United States, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Panama
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1968.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Frank McAdams Albrecht Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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