TY  - GEN
AU  - Rogers,Leighton W.
TI  - Leighton W. Rogers papers,
KW  - Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
KW  - Allied Forces
KW  - American Economic Mission to the Far East
KW  - Dartmouth College
KW  - Students
KW  - National City Bank of New York
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - American Expeditionary Forces
KW  - Army Air Forces
KW  - Department of Commerce
KW  - Aeronautics Trade Division
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - Consultants
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - Theater
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Transportation
KW  - China
KW  - Japan
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Military intelligence
KW  - France
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1912-1949
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Europe
KW  - Russia
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Executives
KW  - Public officials
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, diary (1916 September-1919 April), autobiographical sketch, writings, obituaries, scrapbooks, and a map documenting Rogers's studies at Dartmouth College (1912-1916); experiences in Saint Petersburg, Russia, as an employee of the National City Bank of New York (1916-1918); service as an intelligence officer in Great Britain and France for the American Expeditionary Forces (1918-1919), as a trade commissioner in Europe (1921-1926) representing the Aeronautics Trade Division of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, as president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America (1926-1936), and as a representative on missions to Japan and China for the transportation committee of the American Economic Mission to the Far East (1935); his mission (1943-1944) to the Soviet Union on behalf of the U.S. Army Air Forces to obtain information vital to the Allied war effort; and his life as a consultant in Connecticut.  Includes his writings on the Soviet theater and other writings presenting an American's perspective on the Russian revolution and Soviet life
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006040
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006040.3
ER  -