Reminiscences of Clifton Bledsoe Cates : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Marine Corps officer.

Scope and Contents

Education; World War I; aide to Commandant Marine Corps and Commanding General, Department of the Pacific, 1920-23; China, 1929-32; War Plans Division, 1935-37; Shanghai, 1937-39, Sino-Japanese War; Army War College: wartime training program; President, United States Marine Corps Equipment Board and Commandant, United States Marine Corps schools, 1947; United States Marine Corps Commandant, 1948-51, unification fight; Korea; USO.

Subjects

• Cates, Clifton B. (Clifton Bledsoe), 1893-1970--Interviews.
• Frank, Benis M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. Marine Corps.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945.

Access Conditions

Interview is in the public domain.