| LC control no. | no2016045000 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dorn, Frank, 1901-1981 |
| Variant(s) | Dorn, Pinkie, 1901-1981 |
| Birth date | 1901-06-25 |
| Death date | 1981-07-26 |
| Place of birth | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Military history |
| Affiliation | United States. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Military historians Generals Soldiers Artists |
| Found in | Dorn, Frank, 1901-1981. A map and history of the military reservation of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1931: map recto (Frank Dorn drew this) Cornebise, Alfred E. Soldier extraordinaire, 2019: ECIP galley (Brig. Gen. Frank "Pinkie" Dorn (1901-81)) Arlington National Cemetery, via WWW, viewed April 1, 2016 (Frank Dorn, born June 25, 1901, in San Francisco, Calif.; Commissioned in the Field Artillery from West Point in 1923; Served in the Philippines 1926-1929. Instructor at Field Artillery School 1930-1933; Aide to Brigadier General Joseph W. Stilwell 1939-1942; Artillery Officer, then Deputy Chief of Staff at U.S. Army Forces in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations July 1942-November 1944; Brigadier General in November 1943. Commanding General of China Training and Combat Command 1944-1945. Commanding General of 11th Airborne Division Artillery, then at Headquarters of Army Ground Forces in 1945; Reverted to Colonel in March 1946. Retired as Brigadier General in November 1953; died on July 26, 1981) <http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/frank-dorn.htm> Online Archive of California, via WWW, viewed April 1, 2016 (Frank Dorn Papers, 1927-1976, biographical note: Frank Dorn, born June 25, 1901, San Francisco, Brigadier General; author of Forest Twilight, 1935; author of The Dorn Cookbook, 1953; author of Just a Pinch, 1958) <http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8f59n9h7/admin/#bioghist-1.7.4> West Point Association of Graduates, via WWW, viewed April 1, 2016 (Frank Dorn, born in San Francisco; graduated from West Point 12 June 1923 and was commissioned second lieutenant in the Field Artillery, with first duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 15th Field Artillery. This was followed by assignments in the Philippine Islands, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Peking, China; having studied art at the San Francisco Institute of Art, he created landscape paintings, cartoons, pen and ink drawings and a series of pictorial maps; his historical research on Peking resulted in the publication of his book on the subject, “The Forbidden City, The Biography of a Palace”; other books included “Walkout, with Silwell [sic] in Burma,” and “The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-41”; died at Washington, D.C., July 26, 1981) <http://apps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/7122/> |
| Associated language | eng |
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