1. Forrest Pogue was a proponent of oral history techniques, and collected many oral histories from the war under the direction of chief Army historian S L A Marshall.
16 Facts About Forrest Pogue
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Forrest Pogue was for many years the Executive Director of the George C Marshall Foundation as well as Director of the Marshall Library located on the campus of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.
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Forrest Pogue attended Murray State College, and received his master's degree from the University of Kentucky, as well as a doctorate from Clark University in 1939.
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Forrest Pogue worked at Murray State, teaching history from June 1933 to May 1942.
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Forrest Pogue was a widely sought speaker, averaging around sixty speeches a year, until he was drafted into the Army in 1942 and promoted to sergeant.
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Forrest Pogue was sent to Fort McClellan and received basic training until being reassigned to a historical unit and made responsible for writing a history of the Second United States Army, and in 1944 was sent to England.
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Forrest Pogue was sent to Normandy to interview wounded soldiers.
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Forrest Pogue worked on the project for eleven months, and was present at the Battle of the Bulge.
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Forrest Pogue was discharged in October 1945, and hired as a civilian, with the pay of a colonel.
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Forrest Pogue was first assigned to write a history of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force from 1945 to 1946.
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Forrest Pogue then spent seven years as a military historian, and two conducting operations research at United States Army Garrison Heidelberg with the Operations Research Office at Johns Hopkins University.
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In 1956, Pogue was hired by the George C Marshall Foundation to write the official biography of George Marshall.
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Forrest Pogue became director of the Marshall Foundation in 1956, leaving in 1974 to become director of the Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research.
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Forrest Pogue served as a guest lecturer at George Washington University and the United States Army War College, held the Mary Moody Northen chair in Arts and Sciences at Virginia Military Institute in 1972.
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Forrest Pogue was on the Advisory boards for the Office of Naval History, the Naval Historical Office, the United States Army Center of Military History, the Air Force Historical Research Agency, president of the Oral History Association and the American Military Institute and other organizations.
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Forrest Pogue died at the age of 84 on October 6,1996, in Murray, Kentucky.