1. THE HISTORICAL SECTION, ARMY WAR COLLEGE.
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HANSON, JOSEPH MILLS
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HISTORY of the United States Army ,UNITED States armed forces -- History ,UNITED States military history ,WORLD War I ,MILITARY historians ,HISTORICAL source material - Abstract
The article discusses the establishment and history of the historical section of the General Staff of the United States Army. Its creation was prompted by a 1914 lecture delivered by American military historian Robert M. Johnstone at the Army War College. Based upon similar European military history organizations, the U.S. Army created the historical section in 1918 to study both historical and current military history as well as creating military history archives. The article details the historical department's work to catalog information about World War I.
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- 1937
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