February 2008
Professor Mark Stoler presents "General George C. Marshall" sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council and the Library.
Special thanks to Weston County Store for supporting our library programming efforts with funds for our Sanyo media projector.
As chief of staff, Marshall increased the Army (which then included the Army Air Corps) from a strength of some 200,000 to almost 8.5 million. He was present at all the great conferences of the war, from Argentia, Newfoundland, in the late summer of 1941 to Potsdam in the summer of 1945. He was the chief protagonist of the cross-channel invasion of Europe strategy. For his efforts in training, planning, and supplying the Allies, Britain's Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL called him the "true organizer of victory. "
