Lida Mayo

Lida Mayo, a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, served as historian with the Military Air Transport Service from 1946 to 1950, when she joined the Ordnance Historical Branch, becoming its chief in June 1959. In 1962, when Ordnance historical activities were transferred to the Office of the Chief of Military History, she became a senior historian on its staff. She contributed substantially to The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War (1955), first of the three Ordnance volumes...See more

Lida Mayo, a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, served as historian with the Military Air Transport Service from 1946 to 1950, when she joined the Ordnance Historical Branch, becoming its chief in June 1959. In 1962, when Ordnance historical activities were transferred to the Office of the Chief of Military History, she became a senior historian on its staff. She contributed substantially to The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War (1955), first of the three Ordnance volumes published in this series, and was coauthor of the second, The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply (1960). Other published works to her credit are Henry Clay (New York, 1943, and London, 1944) and Rustics in Rebellion (Chapel Hill, 1950). Her articles have appeared in American Heritage, Virginia Quarterly Review, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and numerous professional journals. Mrs. Mayo is presently at work on another volume in the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany. See less