George S. Patton Papers, 1918-1944, 1997-1998

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1

Folder 1: War Diary - 345th (327th) Battalion, Tank Corps, August 1918

Folder 2: War Diary - 345th (327th) Battalion, Tank Corps, September 1918

Folder 3: War Diary - 345th (327th) Battalion, Tank Corps, October 1918

Folder 4: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, (Includes two maps) September 1918

Folder 5: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, October 1918

Folder 6: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, November 1918

Folder 7: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, December 1918

Folder 8: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, January 1919

Folder 9: War Diary - 304th (1st) Brigade, Tank Corps, February 1919

Folder 10: Battle of St. Mihiel -Field Orders, Operations Reports, Plan of Communications, Supply and Evacuation, September 9-21, 1918

Folder 11: Battle of St. Mihiel - 326th and 327th Battalions, Tank Corps, Reports, September 12-16, 1918

Folder 12: Diary of Major Sereno E. Brett, September 11-19, 1918

Folder 13: "Analysis and Criticism of Tactics Used at St. Mihiel," by Sereno E. Brett, 1922

Folder 14: Correspondence With American Monuments Commission Regarding St. Mihiel, 1929

Folder 15: Field Order No. 25, September 25, 1918

Folder 16: Field Order No. 57, Annex #3, Undated

Folder 17: Liaison Office Messages, September 26 - October 11, 1918

Folder 18: Liaison Office Messages, September 30 - October 1, 1918

Folder 19: "2nd Tank Brigade, AEF, Report on Operations, September 27th to October 1st, 1918," October 5, 1918

Folder 20: Artillery Movement - October 27, 1918

Folder 21: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, October 28, 1918

Folder 22: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 1, Plan of Employment of Artillery, Undated

Folder 23: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 2, Plan of Service, Undated

Folder 24: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 3, Plan of Organization of the Conquered Ground, Undated

Folder 25: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 4, Plan of Engineers, Undated

Folder 26: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 5, Battle of Instructions, Undated

Folder 27: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Changes, Annex No. 6, Plan of Liaison, October 26, 1918

Folder 28: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 7, Plan of Intelligence, October 1918

Folder 29: Headquarters, 1st Army Corps, Field Order 85, Annex No. 8, Plan of Communications, Supply and Evacuation, October 24, 1918

Folder 30: "Personal Report of Major Sereno E. Brett on the 1st Brigade, Tank Corps, During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 to November 10, 1918," Undated

Folder 31: 344th Battalion, Tank Corps, Reports on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September - November, 1918, Written November 16, 1918 and Undated

Folder 32: Operations Reports of the 304th (1st) Brigade, Battle of the Argonne Forest, September 26 to October 15, 1918, Written November 18, 1918 and Undated

Folder 33: Personal Experiences of Officers of the Tank Corps, Written During November and December, 1918

Folder 34: General Order No. 24: Distinguished Service Cross Awarded to Patton, Brett and Others, December 17, 1918

Folder 35: "Operations of the Tank Corps AEF With the 1st American Army at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne, September 11th to November 11th, 1918, " by S. D. Rockenbach, December 27, 1918

Box 2

Folder 1: Headquarters 301st Center, Tank Corps, Assignments (S.O. 46), June 1918

Folder 2: Roster of the 1st Brigade Tank Corps, September and November 1918

Folder 3: Roster of the 304th Brigade Tank Corps, April 1919

Folder 4: 344th Battalion, Men Killed, Wounded or Gassed During the St. Mihiel and Argonne-Meusse Drive, August 1919

Folder 5: "Deaths in the Tank Corps Overseas, as Reported by the A.G.O.," Undated

Folder 6: "Tank Corps Roll of Dead in the Field of Honor," (List of Men Killed/Cause of Death), Undated

Folder 7: Correspondence by General Summerall to General Rockenbach Regarding Lecture on Tanks, 1919

Folder 8: "History of the 304th (1st) Brigade Tank Corps," Undated

Folder 9: "Remarks of Brigadier General S.D. Rockenbach, Chief of Tank Corps, U.S. Army, at Conference of Department and Division Commanders, Held in Washington, D.C., January 12-19, 1920"

Folder 10: Sereno Brett's Thesis for Masters of Forestry, 1920

Folder 11: "Compilation of Extracts from Personal Experience Reports of Tank Officers in the World War," 1928

Folder 12: Correspondence Regarding Claude Huff, a World War I Veteran Who Enlisted Under an Assumed Name, 1931

Folder 13: "Instructions for the Training of the U.S. Tank Corps in France," Undated

Folder 14: "Tanks as Time and Man Savers," (British Official Report), circa 1918

Folder 15: Tanks - Foreign, 1918

Folder 16: "Report of Investigation, French Renault Tanks, With 1st Army, AEF, Argonne Sector, October 1918"

Folder 17: "The Moral Effect of Tanks Upon the Enemy," by F.T. Murphy, Lt. Tank Corps, AEF, Undated

Folder 18: "The Employment of Tanks in the World War" (Translated from "Tanks" by Von Ingenieur R. Kruger), 1923

Folder 19: "American Tanks in the World War," Tank School, Camp Meade, MD, Undated

Folder 20: Correspondence Regarding the Formation of a Tank Division, 1929-1930

Folder 21: Defense Against Mechanized Units (Lecture by Sereno Brett at Army War College), 1933

Folder 22: "Post-War Development," Army War College Report by Sereno Brett, 1934

Folder 23: Christie Tank - Report on Acceptance Test, 1930

Folder 24: Letter from J. Walter Christie to Sereno Brett, 1943

Folder 25: Christie Flying Artillery, 1943

Folder 26: Report on Russian Tanks, 1939

Folder 27: "Mechanized Warfare," by Von Eimamnsberger, Undated

Folder 28: Seven Maps Accompanying "Mechanized Warfare," Undated

Folder 29: Drawings Accompanying "Mechanized Warfare," Undated

Folder 30: Sheet Music - "The Tank: Marching Song of the Tanks," 1930

Box 3

Folder 1: World War I Aerial Photos - Attack on Contigny, May 28, 1918, (#1-2)

Folder 2: Photos Stamped "General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, Office, Chief of Tank Corps," 1918 (#3-12)

Folder 3: Unidentified Painting of a World War I Battle, Undated (#13)

Folder 4: U.S. Army Motorized Artillery Maneuvers, Washington, D.C., Undated (#14)

Folder 5: "Tank Park, Company B, 16th Tank Battalion," Undated (#15)

Folder 6: "HQ CO., Light Tank BN and Light Tank CO., War Strength," Undated (#16)

Folder 7: Tanks and Other Ordnance (Photos Once Stored in a Three Ring Binder Labeled "C/S"), Undated (#17-41)

Folder 8: Christie Tank, 1922 and Undated (#42-47)

Folder 9: Christie Tank - Four Panel Sequence, Undated (#48-51)

Folder 10: Christie Tank - Five Panel Sequence, Undated (#52-56)

Folder 11: Tanks, Identified

Dragon Tank (#57-59); Ford Tank (#60-62); Franklin Air Cooled Tank (#63); Mark VII, S.P. Mount (#64-65); T1 (#66); T1E1 (#67-70); T1E2, 1929 (#71-72); T2, 1931 (#73-77); T2E1 (#78); T2E2 (#79); T3 (#80); T3E2 (#81); T4 (#82-84); T5, Phase III (#85-86)

Folder 12: Tanks, British

Garden-Lloyd Tank, 1929, 1931-1932 (#87-91); Mark V Tank, 1929 (#92-94); Vickers Tank (#95-98)

Folder 13: French Renault Tank, Undated (#99-100)

Folder 14: German Tanks, Undated (#101-103)

Folder 15: Italian Fiat Tank Model 2000, Undated (#104-105)

Folder 16: Photos Stamped: "From Austr. Mjr. Heigl" Swedish M-21 Tank, 1927 (#106-107); Czechoslovakian Wheel Cum Track Tank KH50, Undated (#108-111)

Folder 17: Tanks, Unidentified and Undated (#112-127)

Folder 18: One Photo of a Group of Tanks and Trucks, Unidentified (#128)

Folder 19: Tank Carriers/Cargo Carriers, Unidentified (#129-133)

Folder 20: Armored Car, Unidentified and Undated (#134)

Folder 21: Trucks, Identified, Undated (#135-138)

Folder 22: Trucks, Unidentified and Undated (#139-143)

Folder 23: Scout Cars, T9 and Unidentified; Both Undated (#144-145)

Folder 24: Hipkins Device, Undated (#146-149)

Folder 25: Airplane Carrying a Tank, Unidentified and Undated (#150)

Folder 26: Guns, Undated (#151-154)

Folder 27: Photo Labeled "Old Kitchen," Undated (#155)

Folder 28: Graphs - Motorized Transport vs. Horses, Undated (#156-157)

Folder 29: Portraits of Sereno Brett, Undated (#158-165)

Folder 30: Guillermo Jose Mohr, Major General Argentina (Sereno Brett in Background), Undated (#166)

Folder 31: Group Photos (Sereno Brett Included in Each Photo), Undated (#167-183)

Folder 32: Infantry Board, 1932-1937 (Sereno Brett Included in Each Photo) (#184-186)

Folder 33: Photos Stamped: "Photograph by Signal Corps, U.S. Army, Fort Knox, Kentucky," Photos are Otherwise Unidentified (Sereno Brett Included in Each Photo), Undated (#187-196)

Folder 34: Photos Stamped: "Photograph by `Morgan' Warner Bros. License to Produce with Copyright Notice Granted Newspapers, Magazines and Other Periodicals," Undated (#197-215) (Sereno Brett in Photo #215)

Folder 35: Photos Labeled "M.F.," 1930-31 and Undated (#216-223) (Sereno Brett in #216-217)

Folder 36: Portraits - Adna R. Chaffee, Undated (#224-225)

Folder 37: General Adna R. Chaffee and Secretary of War Henry Stimson (Autographed by Chaffee), 1941 (#226)

Folder 38: Portrait - Daniel Van Voorhis (Autographed by Van Voorhis) (#227)

Folder 39: Portraits - Unidentified, Undated (#228-231)

Folder 40: Photo Labeled "ROTC - W. Md. College, May 12, 1926" (#232)

Folder 41: Group Photos, Unidentified (Sereno Brett Not Included), Undated (#233- 236)

Folder 42: Photos - Unidentified, Undated (#237-242)

Folder 43: European War Maps - Fourth Corps Map and Traffic Regulations, Undated, (5 3/4" x 8 1/4"); Diagrammatic View of Western War Theatre, 1918, (7 ½" x 9 7/8)"

Box 4

Folder 1: Eight aerial photographs of the World War I European combat theatre, undated

Folder 2: Essay: "Lieutenant Meets General George S. Patton, Jr." by Col. William A. Brant (Ret)

The essay was written by Col. William A. Brant (Ret). The essay recounts a testy meeting between Patton and (then lieutenant) Brant at a traffic jam near Caltanissetta, Sicily, on July 16, 1943. Brant was attempting to clear traffic in order to move a large gun and truck through a small fence opening off the main road. Patton told him in no uncertain terms to "get that [expletive] gun off the road." Patton then roared off in his jeep. It was the only time that Brant and Patton met. Also included is a July 1998 letter from Kathryn Brant to Sandy Slater, Head of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections. Following graduation from UND in 1942, Brant volunteered for the Red Cross in India.

Folder 3: "Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (unbound).

Nuetzman served in the 4th Armored Division in Patton's Third Army during World War II. In the essay's introduction, Nuetzman wrote that he was "attempting to present not a blow-by-blow description of actual combat (although it may have that appearance at times), but a vivid conception to the reader of the emotions that are felt by the average soldier who is waiting to go to the front, of his feelings at night while living in a foxhole, of his intense desire to go home and to live at peace with his loved ones." The Fourth Armored Division saw extensive action in the Battle of the Bulge, and helped to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne at Bastogne. The division then turned east, advancing through Germany to Czechoslovakia.

Folder 4: "Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (bound).

Folder 5: "Combat Safari" by M. Edwin Nuetzman, 1997 (bound).

This folder contains typescript photocopies of twelve of Nuetzman's letters home. Most of the letters were written to his father, Albert F. Nuetzman, Superintendent of Schools in Remer, Minnesota, as well as his sister Jean in Minneapolis. The letters date from 1944-1946.

Folder 6: Buchenwald and Beyond (no publication date)

This folder contains the published unit history for the 120th Evacuation Hospital. On April 15, 1945, General Patton ordered the hospital to be permanently stationed at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in order to provide medical assistance for the 120,000 residents of the camp. One member of the 120th was Dr. J.H. Mahoney, who graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1940. After leaving UND, Mahoney graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, with an M.D. degree. Mahoney joined the 120th in April 1945, and served as a Captain. Also included is a two page essay, “Memories of events while I served with the 120th Evacuation Unit,” by Dr. J.H. Mahoney. The essay recounts Mahoney’s experiences at Buchenwald.

Oversize Folder :

Separated and placed in the Oversize File Cabinets.

Oversize Folder 1

Item 1: Buzancy, Corrected Map to Accompany Field Order No. 85 - 1st A.C., Secret, (21 1/8" x 28 1/4")

Item 2: "Commercy, Revised 1912," Indicating 344th (326th) Battalion Positions Sept. 12-20, 1918, (22 3/4" x 32 7/8")

Item 3: Argonne, 1:50,000, 1918, (29 3/4" x 41 1/8")

Item 4: Buzancy/Dun-sur-Meuse, 1:20,000, June 12, 1918, Indicating Objective, Position and Maneuver Lines, (50 3/4" x 73 3/4")

Oversize Folder 2

Item 1: Artillery Barrage, Infantry Jumping Off line, June 9, 1918, Indicating Rolling Barrage Lifts, (19 ½" x 24 5/8")

Item 2: Tank Diagram, Tank Battalion at Midnight, 304th, 1st Co., Indicating Four Objectives, (17 3/4" x 25 3/8")

Item 3: Montsec 1:500,000, 1917 (23 1/4" x 30 ½")

Oversize Folder 3

Item 1: St. Mihiel, 1st Army, A.E.F. Circulation Map, (14 3/4" x 22 1/8")

Item 2: St. Mihiel, September 12-15, 1918 1:100,000, (17 3/4" x 21 1/8") (From "Operations Report, 304th Tank Brigade, St. Mihiel," Box 1, Folder 10)

Item 3: "Foret D'Argonne Attack," (14 7/8" x 20 3/4") (From Operations Report, 304th Tank Brigade, Foret D'Argonne Attack, Sept. 26th to Oct. 15th, " Box 1, Folder 32)

Item 4: The World War: Major Tactics of the Greatest Battle in History, July 18 to November 11, 1918, Dated 1928 (11 3/8" x 17 7/8,")

Oversize Folder 4

Item 1: Carte de France @ 1/600,000, June 28, 1918, (35 1/4" x 44 3/4")

Item 2: Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Map Showing Daily Position of Frontline Map Room G-3 G.H.Q. May 24, 1919, (29 3/4" x 35 3/8")

Oversize Folder 5: 12 European War Maps - World War I

Item 1: Map 1 (9 ½" x 17"): Dobroudja Campaigne, October, 1916; Volhynie Campaigne, October, 1916; Izonzo Campaigne, October, 1916

Item 2: Map 2 (15 1/4" x 24 7/8"): Transylvania Campaigne, October, 1916; Macedonian Campaigne, October, 1916; Somme Campaigne, October, 1916

Item 3: Map 3: Western Theatre - European War, (21 3/8" x 25 3/4")

Item 4: Map 4: German Russian Operations, European War (R2), (19 ½" x 30")

Item 5: Map 5: Austria-Russian Operations, European War (R4), (16 1/4" x 22")

Item 6: Map 6: Turkish - Allies Operation, European War (R4), (16 1/4" x 22")

Item 7: Map 7: Italian-Austrian Frontier (R5), (24" x 32 7/8")

Item 8: Map 8: European War Zone Maps, 1914 (R6), (24" x 33 7/8")

Item 9: Map 9: German-Russian Operations, European War (R20), (22" x 33 7/8")

Item 10: Map 10: The Balkans, 1915 (R22), (21 7/8" x 33 7/8")

Item 11: Map 11: The Balkans, 1915 (R23), (19 ½" x 33 7/8")

Item 12: Map 12: A Map of Turkey in Asia (R 27), (19 ½" x 29 7/8")

Oversize Folder 6: Poster: "General Patton Says, `Buy More Bonds!' 1944

Oversize Folder 7: Newspaper Article on Sereno Brett: "He Lets Them Blow Him Up in a Tank," November 20, 1927 (Newspaper Unidentified)

Oversize Folder 8: Newspaper Article on Sereno Brett: "He Lets Them Blow Him Up in a Tank," November 20, 1927 (Newspaper Unidentified) [Duplicate of Folder 7]

Oversize Folder 9: Newspaper and Magazine Articles:

Item 1: PM New York Daily, July 1, 1940 (Photo of Sereno Brett on Cover)

Item 2: Time, July 8, 1940, pg. 19 (Article on formation of two Army tank divisions. Photo of Generals Adna R. Chaffee and Charles L. Scott).

Item 3: Benning Herald, August 16, 1940 (Newspaper of Fort Benning, Georgia)

Oversize Folder 10: Armored Forces News

Published at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Item 1: June 5, 1941 (Front Page Article Entitled "Colonel Brett is Confirmed as Panzer Chief")

Item 2: July 10, 1941 (Entire Paper)

Item 3: July 10, 1941 (Section One, Front Page Article Entitled "Colonel Brett is Confirmed as Panzer Chief")