Forrest C. Pogue Interviews with General George C. Marshall

Mobilization problems (1940-1941); Draft; Atlantic Conference, Relations with Congress and the Army Air Corps; Lend-Lease

Concerns about approval of European Recovery Plan; Drafting of Marshall Plan Speech

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Impressions of General J. Franklin Bell and General John J. Pershing; Marshall's fond memories of San Francisco telephone operator; Unpreparedness of U.S. Army soldiers going to France and French reaction; Marshall "sacrifice play" with General Pershing about General Pershing's criticism of a training exercise

First U.S. casualties; French concerns about Marshall's report on first U.S. casualties; Plattsburgh Experiment; Reflections comparing readiness 1915-1916 to 1939-1941 and Korean War

Aide to General J. Franklin Bell; Fort Reno; Leavenworth schools (1906-1910) prepares General Marshall for World War I Meuse-Argonne Battle; Leavenworth preparation of Army officers; service with the National Guard (1908-1912); European vacation (1910); duty in Fort Logan Roots in San Antonio, Texas; service in the Philippines (1913-1916); aide to General J. Franklin Bell (1916-1917)

Virginia Military Institute; Philippine assignment (1902-1903), Fort Reno, Texas; Texas mapping expedition; Marshall's financial challenge to "come out ahead" on a month's pay.

General J. Franklin Bell and development of Leavenworth school; Marshall as student in the Leavenworth’s School of the Line and the Staff College

Virginia Military Institute, impact of VMI on later leadership and career; Philippine assignment(1902-1903) and cholera epidemic; Service in China,

Virginia Military Institute and Lexington, Virginia (1897-1901), Influences on later life, Home life, Reading, First trip to Washington, D.C. General John J. Pershing

Virginia Military Institute and Lexington, Virginia (1897-1901), Influences on later life, Home life, Reading, First trip to Washington, D.C. General John J. Pershing

Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, family background and parents

Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1880-90s - Description of his home; Marshall's playmates; boyhood ambitions; employment at the ice plant and as organ pumper at St. Peter's Episcopal Church; family ancestry; remembrances of his parents; his father's "Democratic instinct" and his mother's "Republican instincts;" favorite books..."books that bore on history."

Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Marshall's "painful time in public school"..."I was poor in grammar and arithmetic...I could star in history." Marshall's reaction to overhearing his brother telling his mother that if he went to the Virginia Military Institute(VMI), he would "disgrace the family name."

Childhood in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1880-90s. "In this life in Uniontown, I saw the end of an era, because it was a very simple life." Marshall's mother: "She had a very powerful influence on me; I told her everything I did." Sinking the ferry: an "incident in my young life that made a definite impression on me;" growing and selling tomatoes; his father interest in history; trout fishing in the mountain streams.