Robert M. Littlejohn Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-0103

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These papers contain 17 chapters of Passing in Review, an aborted history of the Quartermaster Corps in the European Theater of Operations in World War II. It was conceived and edited by General Littlejohn; a number of officers who contributed chapters played major roles under Littlejohn's command. There is also a second volume, Storage and Distribution of Quartermaster Supplies in the ETO in WWII, published by the Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Va., in March 1962. This volume contains photographs, biographical and anecdotal information about many vital services the Quartermaster Corps performed in WW II. Editor and author, Littlejohn, was assisted by some of his chiefs of division and base section Quartermasters, who actually engaged in the operations. There are photographs and biographical accounts in the chapters they contributed.

Dates

1942-1968
1942 - 1955

Biographical Note

Robert McGowan Littlejohn was born in South Carolina in 1890. He was educated at the U.S. Military Academy (B.S. degree); was a graduate of Quartermaster Corps Subsistence School in 1925; attended the Command and General Staff School in 1929; and Army War College in 1930. He served in the Philippines and on the Mexican border from 1912-1917 and was an instructor at West Point 1917. He then served in France and Germany in 1918. He was on the General Staff of the War Department 1930-1934; was Post Quartermaster at West Point, 1934-38; served in Manila and the Philippines 1938-1940; was Chief Quartermaster (Maj. Gen.) ETO, 1942-1946; and retired in 1946. He was Administrator for the War Assets Administration, 1946-1948. He earned many distinguished medals & service ribbons.