Lida Mayo

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Lida S. Mayo ( March 11, 1904 in Columbus , Mississippi - 1978 ) was an American historian .

In 1924 she graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg . She first worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC , then from 1947 at the Air Transport Command of the United States Air Force . Between 1941 and 1950 she published biographies and historical studies of the United States in the 19th century. In the early 1950s, she became a historian for the United States Army Ordnance Corps . From 1954 to 1956 she was employed at the American University . She was a historian for the United States Army Center of Military History from 1956 until her retirement in 1971 . In retirement, she completed her book Bloody Buna about the Battle of New Guinea , which became a bestseller in Australia .

Her articles have appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and in various journals such as American Heritage and Virginia Quarterly Review .

Fonts

  • Henry Clay. 1943, OCLC 1601199 .
  • with George Alfred Townsend: Rustics in Rebellion. 1950, OCLC 470129036 .
  • with Harry C. Thomson: The Ordnance Department: Procurement and supply. 1960 ( online ).
  • The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront. 1968 ( online ).
  • Bloody Buna: the campaign that halted the Japanese invasion of Australia. David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1975, ISBN 0-7153-6852-4 .
  • Co-author: The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany. 1985 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lida Mayo on the Ordnance Corps website
  2. ^ Note on the Authors . In: The Ordnance Department: Procurement and supply. 1960, p. Viii ( online , PDF; 16.4 MB).
  3. ^ The Author . In: The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront. 1968, p. Viii ( online , PDF; 18.2 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Mayo, Lida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayo, Lida S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH 1978