Conditions Governing Use

Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions

Preferred Citation

Frank McCarthy collection. MS 0350. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Frank McCarthy was born in 1912 in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from VMI in 1933. He was part of the War Department General Staff and Secretary to General George C. Marshall, a Brigadier General in the Army Reserve, and the producer of the movie "Patton." McCarthy died in 1986 in California.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials from the life of Frank McCarthy, including seven notebooks that contain clippings of articles written by McCarthy during his VMI cadetship and during the two years after graduation. Also included is a script for the newsreel "West Point of the South" (1936) and items from the production of the movie "Patton" (1970), which McCarthy produced.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Feature films
• Notebooks
• Virginia Military Institute—Alumni—Publications
• Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1930-1939
• Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1933