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United States. Army

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1784

Administrative History

The United States Army, previously known as the American Continental Army, was established by the Congress of the Confederation in 1784.

Citation:
Brown, Jerry, 1936- Narushenie poverkhnosti i ee zashchita pri osvoenii Severa, 1981: p. 3 (Laboratorii͡a Armii SShA po izuchenii͡u kholodnykh regionov KRREL)

Genizi, H. Yoʻets u-meḳim, 1987: t.p. (Tsava ha-Ameriḳani)

Probable trend and magnitude of Soviet expenditures for national security purposes, 1969: t.p. (U.S. Army)

U.S. gov't org. man., 1978/79, p. 199 (The American Continental Army, now called the United States Army, was established by the Continental Congress, June 14, 1775)

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bert E. Pritchett photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233606695]
Identifier: MSS P 204
Scope and Contents

Collection includes 556 photographs and 160 negatives taken by Bert E. Pritchett during his service in the Army during the Second World War. Includes images of military equipment and buildings from the Pacific, as well as photographs of San Francisco, California.

Dates: approximately 1940-1949

Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Field Artillery, 1926-2006

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains documents of Latter-Day Saints serving in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War II in the European Theater. Materials contains papers, photographs, questionnaire, essays, histories, autobiographies, and memoirs. Dated 1926-2006.

Dates: 1926-2006

Albert Aikens Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7686
Scope and Contents Contains materials pertaining to Albert Aikens Smith's personal life and professional military life. Includes military papers, correspondence, maps, photographs and negatives from Smith’s time training and serving in the National Guard of Utah from 1929-1937, and the United States Army in WWII and the Korean War. Photographs and negatives also pertain to Smith’s personal life, focused on his wife and children. School yearbooks are from Smith’s time at David High School and BYU. The Albert...
Dates: 1920-1985