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Acknowledgments I should first of all like to thank General Truscott’s son Lt. Col. James J. Truscott , USAF (Ret.), San Antonio, Texas, and Lucian K. Truscott IV, Los Angeles, California, the general’s grandson, for permitting me to conduct extensive interviews of them, and for responding so graciously to my numerous e-mail and telephone requests for information and assistance. Their recollections of General Truscott and the Truscott and Randolph families provided a rich mine of personal information available nowhere else. I owe an immense debt of gratitude to the staff of the George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia, the repository of the Lucian K. Truscott Jr. Collection. I am particularly indebted to Joanne Hartog, director of Special Projects/Library, who patiently assisted me in countless ways during my numerous research trips to the library. Peggy L. Dillard, assistant, Library and Archives, provided the digital copies of the photographs from the library that appear in the book and secured the necessary permission to reproduce the photographs. Paul B. Barron, the director of the Marshall Library and archives, also provided valuable assistance. The U.S. Army Military History Institute Archives and Library at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, is a treasure trove of resources consulted for decades by military historians from throughout the world. I have relied on their staff for research assistance on numerous projects for almost twenty years, and they once again responded in splendid fashion during my research into General Truscott’s life and career. Richard J. Sommers possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the institute’s archival and library holdings and was always on hand to assist me. I should also like to acknowledge the aid of Richard L. Baker of the Army Heritage and Education Center, collocated with the institute. It is always a pleasure to visit the National Archives at College Park, Maryland , and work with the thoroughly professional archivists there. I should like to extend special thanks to Mitchell A. Yockelson, archivist nonpareil, respected military historian in his own right, and colleague and friend. Lawrence H. McDonald was particularly helpful and patient as he introduced me to the CIA Research Tool during my research on General Truscott’s CIA years. William B. xiii Mahoney, Timothy K. Nenninger, John E. Taylor, and Carolyn Gilliam were on hand to lend aid. I should also like to acknowledge the assistance of individuals from numerous Army and other governmental agencies who promptly responded to my requests for assistance and for materials pertaining to Truscott’s career: Michael L. Browne, Joanne Knight, and Virginia Navarro of the Combined Arms Research Library, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth , Kansas; Leo J. Daugherty, command historian, U.S. Army Accessions Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia; Kenneth Finlayson, deputy command historian , U.S. Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Shellie Glass, U.S. Army War College Library, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Robyn Hall, director of licensing, Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensing and Supervision , Oklahoma City; Dorinda Harvey and Denise Mullins, County Clerk’s Office , Cleveland County, Norman, Oklahoma; Linda W. Hee, Tropic Lightning Museum, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; James B. Knight and James Tobias, U.S. Army Center of Military History,Fort Lesley J.McNair,Washington,D.C.; Scott Koch and Kathryn I.Dyer,information and privacy coordinators,Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.; Herbert L. Pankratz, archivist, Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kansas; CW2 Jonathan D. Ward, commander, 3d Infantry Division Band, Fort Stewart, Georgia; Michael Warner, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.; and staff members of the National Personnel and Records Center, Military Personnel Records, St. Louis. I would be remiss if I failed to acknowledge the contributions and assistance of individuals and of personnel affiliated with other governmental and nongovernmental agencies: the staff of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia; Paul G. Anderson, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; Verna Bonner and Willa Kral, Department of Genealogy, Corsicana Public Library, Corsicana, Texas; Jean Carefoot, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin; David Chapman and Catherine Coker, Cushing Library, Texas A&M University , College Station; Joan Freie, Registrar’s Office, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis; Mary Ann Heiss, Department of History, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; Judge Robert N. Jones, Jr., Chatfield, Texas; Carol A. Leadenham, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California; Brenda Lynn and Peter J. Rizzo, Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame, Lake Worth, Florida; Jean McCracken, Cleveland County Genealogical Society, Norman, Oklahoma; Patty McWilliams, Shawnee...

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