Nuthall, Alfred J. Papers

Assistant to Anna M. Rosenberg, the Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1951-1953

The papers of Alfred J. Nuthall relate to his career in the armed forces and consist of a biographical timeline of Nuthall's military career, correspondence, invitations, a newspaper article, and an extensive collection of photocopied photographs.

Size: 2 linear inches (about 125 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: The donor gave to the U.S. government all of its copyrights in this collection. Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of the documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Caitlin McGrath (2011) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

Alfred Jack Nuthall served in various positions during his long career with the United States Army and the United States Air Force, from April 1942 to December 1962. From August 1951 until January 1953, he served as Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Anna M. Rosenberg. Nuthall rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before his retirement in 1962.

The papers of Alfred J. Nuthall mostly relate to his career with the United States Army and the United States Air Force. The collection consists of a biographical timeline of his military career, correspondence, invitations, a newspaper article, and a large number of photocopied photographs.

The biographical timeline charts Nuthall's career in the military from 1942 to 1962. The correspondence in the collection mostly concerns the security clearance of K. R. Pusta, an ex-U.S. Army officer, and does not relate directly to Nuthall.

The invitations are to a variety of events in 1960, when Nuthall and his wife were living in the Washington, D.C. area: mostly cocktail parties and receptions hosted by foreign ambassadors and military attaches.

The collection also contains a February 1, 1965 article from a U.S. Air Force newspaper regarding the retirement of General Curtis E. LeMay.

The collection includes photocopies of about ninety photographs of various events and subjects, with the majority focusing on Anna M. Rosenberg, her activities as Assistant Secretary of Defense, and her trip to Korea and Japan in October 1951. Also included are two photographs inscribed to Nuthall by Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall and his successor in that office, Robert Lovett. The original photographs have been transferred to the Truman Library's audiovisual collection.