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Charles Harrison Corlett fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1943.

Reference:

R2079-0-3-E, MG30-E197

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103816

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Charles Harrison Corlett fonds
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Date(s):

1943.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.7 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of portions of General Corlett's unpublished autobiography in which he describes the joint Canadian-American landing on Kiska, dated 15 August 1943. Photocopies, 28 pages.

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Corlett, Charles Harrison, 1889-1964

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Corlett, Charles Harrison, 1889-1964 : Charles Corlett, military officer, was commissioned in 1913 as a 2nd lieutenant in the American Army. He became a major in 1920, and was promoted to major-general in September 1942. He was appointed commander of the U.S. troops on Kiska, Aleutian Islands in 1943; commanded the 7th Infantry Division in the Kwajalein campaign in the Marshall Islands in 1943; and commanded the 19th Corps of the lst Army in the European invasion of June-October 1944. He retired in 1946.

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Location of originals note:

Copied in 1973 from originals with the United States Army Military History Research Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pa.
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Canada. Canadian Armed forces - Foreign countries

World War II - Canada - Armed forces overseas

World War II - Campaigns

Charles Harrison Corlett - Autobiography, [19-]
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Private

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MG30-E197
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