Frank Maxwell Andrews Papers
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Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
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Frank Maxwell Andrews Papers 1920-1943 (bulk 1935-1942)
Andrews, Frank Maxwell, 1884-1943
Biographical History for: Frank Maxwell Andrews Papers 1920-1943 (bulk 1935-1942)
Biographical Note Date Event 1884, Feb. 3 Born, Nashville, Tenn. 1906 Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. and commissioned a second lieutenant, cavalry 1906-1917 Served with the cavalry in the Philippines, Hawaii, and the continental United States 1914 Married Jeannette Allen 1917 Assigned to the Aviation Division of the Signal Corp 1920-1923 Served with Allied occupation forces in Germany 1923-1935 Commanded various Air Corp stations and units 1935-39 Commanded Air Force, General Headquarters 1940-41 Promoted successively to major and lieutenant general and commanded the Caribbean Air Force and the Caribbean Defense Command 1942 Commanded United States Army Forces, Middle East 1943 Commanding general, European Theater of Operations, United States Army 1943, May 3 Died, Iceland, in an airplane crash
Scope and Content Note The papers of Frank Maxwell Andrews (1884-1943) span the years 1920-1943, with the bulk of the material from 1935 to 1942. The collection consists of family correspondence, general correspondence, and copies of official correspondence; financial records; reports and memoranda; manuscript and near-print copies of speeches and articles; memorabilia; newspaper clippings; a few other printed items ; and additional material, mostly correspondence. Except for Andrews’s military service record (201 File) and flight record, which begin in 1920 and 1921 respectively, there are no materials dated before 1924. There are almost no papers dated after November 1942 when Andrews left the Caribbean Defense Command for the Middle East at Cairo. The main subjects in the collection are the organization and administration of the air arm of the War Department and the operation of the Caribbean Defense Command as World War II threatened and broke over the western hemisphere. Andrews's efforts to prepare an effective and modern air force in the late 1930s is recorded in correspondence, memoranda, and reports. Notable are the files of Andrews's correspondence as commander of the General Headquarters, Air Force, Langley Field, with successive chiefs of the Air Corps, Generals Benjamin Delahauf Foulois, Oscar Westover, and Henry Harley Arnold. Correspondence with Secretaries of War Harry Hines Woodring and Henry L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary Louis Arthur Johnson, and General Malin Craig, chief of staff from 1935 to 1939, reflect the views of the War Department concerning air force policy as well as within the air arm itself. From June 1939 until November 1940, Andrews was designated by General George C. Marshall as assistant chief of staff, G-3 (training and operations) of the War Department, the first instance of the appointment of an air officer to a staff position of overall responsibilities within the army. When war began in Europe, Andrews was sent to Panama as chief of the Caribbean Defense Command in charge of all military forces in that area. Except for a few items concerning his death, the papers end at the termination of this assignment. Other correspondents in the papers include George H. Brett, Gerald C. Brant, Lawrence Dale Bell, James Eugene Chaney, Ruben H. Fleet, Hugh J. Knerr, George C. Kenney, Frank Dorwin Lachland, Boaz Walton Long, Arthur Bliss Lane, Leslie James McNair, Henry Conger Pratt, Augustine Warner Robins, Alexander P. De Seversky, Carl Spaatz, Ralph Talbot, Jr., Burdett S. Wright, Oscar Westover, and Walter Reed Weaver.
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General Correspondence and Other Papers, 1924-1943
Letters sent and received with a few copies of official documents.
file
"A-B" miscellaneous, 1924-1942
Craig, Malin, 1935-1939
"C" miscellaneous, 1929-1942
Daedalians, Order of, 1936-1942
"D-F" miscellaneous, 1930-1942
"G-J" miscellaneous , 1929-1942
"K-M" miscellaneous, 1929-1942
"M-S" miscellaneous, 1929-1942
"S-V" miscellaneous, 1930-1942
Westover, Oscar, 1935-1938
"W-Z" miscellaneous, 1929-1943
Unidentified, 1942-1943
Family Correspondence, 1924-1942
Letters sent and received with a few genealogical and biographical notes scattered throughout.
Official Papers, 1920-1943
Correspondence, reports, orders, memoranda, bulletins, personnel and flight records, and printed matter.
Adjutant general, 1935-1942
Air Defense Command, 1941
Airplanes, 1938-1940
Caribbean Defense Command, 1941
General Headquarters, air force
Directives, 1930-1937
General orders, 1935-1941
Bulletins, 1935-1937
Data for final report, 1938
Organizations and operations, 1935-1938
Five-year airplane replacement program, 1937
G-2 (intelligence) bulletins, 1938-1939
Numbered memoranda, 1935-1939
Office memoranda, 1935-1938
Staff memoranda, 1935-1937
Staff résumé, 1936-1939
Germany, 1937
Italian flight, visit of Italo Baldo to the World's Fair, Chicago, Il., 1933-1934
National defense, 1933-1942
Record flights, 1935-1936
Secretary of war, 1938-1942
Assistant secretary of war, 1937-1942
Visiting dignitaries, 1942
War Department, General Staff, 1935-1942
West Coast exercise, 1937
Wilcox bill, 1926-1937
Military service record (201 file), 1920-1943
Flight record, 1921-1943
Financial Papers, 1929-1942
Correspondence, bills, and receipts.
Speeches and Articles File, 1925-1942
Manuscript, typescript, and near-print copies of speeches and articles by Andrews and others.
Miscellany, 1929-1943
Social correspondence, calling cards, photographs, biographical material, and memorabilia.
Awards and decorations, 1935-1942
Biographical material, 1940-1943
Calling cards, 1941
Christmas cards, 1942
Invitations and programs, 1941-1942
Memorandum receipts, 1929-1942
Photographs, 1935-1941
Printed Matter, 1930-1943
Newspaper and magazine clippings, and miscellaneous printed matter.
Clippings, 1930-1943
Miscellany, 1930-1941
Addition, 1930-1942
Personal correspondence and speeches.
Personal correspondence and speeches, 1930-1942