Title |
General William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan |
Collection |
Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection |
File Name |
39222001346480 |
Photo Number |
26600 |
Publisher |
Utah State Historical Society |
Date of Photograph |
1956 |
Date |
1956 |
Subject |
Military organizations; Military officers; Awards; Medals; Ambassadors; War crime trials |
Person |
Donovan, William J. |
Spatial Coverage |
Utah |
Comment |
William Donovan earned the nickname "Wild Bill" and earned a Medal of Honor for service during World War I. He is the ONLY American to have received our nation's FOUR highest awards, The Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal and the National Security Medal. He founded, and then led, what later became the CIA, he served as an assistant during the ollowing the war, he served as an assisstant during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, and also served as United States Ambassador to Thailand in 1953. |
Rights Management |
Digital Image (c) 2004 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. |
Holding Institution |
Utah State Historical Society |
Relation |
Classified Photo Collection, 921 Biography |
Source Format |
Paper print |
Source Size |
5 inches x 7 inches |
Source Donors |
Salt Lake Tribune |
Type |
Image |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Format Creation |
Image scanned on Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner at TIFF: 800 ppi resolution and 8-bit grayscale. Dimensions are JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels. |
Scanned By |
Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6st7x7w |
Setname |
dha_cp |
ID |
430831 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6st7x7w |