Lida Mayo
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
- Lida Mayo on the Ordnance Corps website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lida Mayo on the Ordnance Corps website
- ^ Note on the Authors . In: The Ordnance Department: Procurement and supply. 1960, p. Viii ( online , PDF; 16.4 MB).
- ^ The Author . In: The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront. 1968, p. Viii ( online , PDF; 18.2 MB).
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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 |