Box AR00051
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Fort Knox Programs, Newspaper Clippings, Booklet, and Manual, 1941 - 1945, 1958, 1989
File — Box: AR00051, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
This folder contains programs, newspaper clippings, and manuals, including the following: AFRTC Officers Club "Halloween Dance" program; newspaper clippings related to the AFRTC and other World War II topics; a program for Graduation Exercises of the Twenty-Fourth Class Officer Candidate School at the Armored Force School at Fort Knox, Kentucky (1943); a program for the AFRTC Officers Club's "Pan American Fiesta" event (1941); a document with hints for enlisted passengers of the USS LST-794...
Dates:
1941 - 1945; 1958; 1989
Radiation Exposure from Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE, 1982 - 1989
File — Box: AR00051, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Robert E. Byrns Collection documents the military career, instructional activities, and research interests of Colonel Robert E. Byrns from the 1930s through the late 1980s, with particular emphasis on his service in the Armored Force Replacement Training Center (AFRTC) and Armored School at Fort Knox, Kentucky; his work with Special Training Units during World War II; and his later involvement with the Army Field Forces Arctic Test Branch in Alaska. The materials reflect Col. Byrns’s...
Dates:
1982 - 1989
Special Training in the Armored Force Replacement Training Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1943
File — Box: AR00051, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a document with information about Special Training at the Armored Force Replacement Training Center in Fort Knox, Kentucky. The document covers the scope and organization of the special training program by Major Stuart L. Weinerth, the classification aspects of special training by Captain Milton Wittman, the role of the psychiatrist in the AFRTC by Captain Frank J. Imburgia, the limited service and orientation programs in special training by Corporal Bertram S. Busch,...
Dates:
1943
Standard Operating Procedure: 540th Amphibian Tractor Battalion, 1944 - 1945
File — Box: AR00051, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
This folder contains a standard operating procedure document for the 540th Amphibian Tractor Battalion. It covers sections on organization, command and staff; intelligence; combat operations; communications; supply and evacuation; and various miscellaneous topics. The document also contains inserted papers related to training and a large assault landing diagram.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Robert E. Byrns Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 000065
Abstract
The Robert E. Byrns Collection documents the military career, instructional activities, and research interests of Colonel Robert E. Byrns from the 1930s through the late 1980s, with particular emphasis on his service in the Armored Force Replacement Training Center (AFRTC) and Armored School at Fort Knox, Kentucky; his work with Special Training Units during World War II; and his later involvement with the Army Field Forces Arctic Test Branch in Alaska. The materials reflect Col. Byrns’s...
Dates:
1929 - 1995