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Walker, Walton Harris	03.12.1889 Belton, TX - 23.12.1950 near Seoul, Korea (jeep accident) [Arlington National Cemetery, VA]	2nd Lt. (RA) 12.06.1912 [O3405] 1st Lt. (RA) 01.07.1916 Capt. (RA) 15.05.1917 Maj. (RA) 17.06.1918 Lt.Col. (USA) 06.05.1919 (reverted to Maj. 01.07.1920) Lt.Col. (RA) 01.08.1935 Col. (T) (AUS) 14.02.1941 Brig.Gen. (T) (AUS) 10.07.1941 Maj.Gen. (T) (AUS) 16.02.1942 Col. (RA) 01.05.1942 Brig.Gen. (RA) 04.06.1944 Lt.Gen. (T) (AUS) 26.04.1945 Maj.Gen. (RA) 01.08.1947 Gen. (AUS) 20.12.1950 (posthumously) DSC ? 2 x DSM ? 2 x SSM ? 3 x LM ? ? BSM ? ? DFC ? ? AM ? 2 x CR ? ?	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (1908-12.06.1912) 12.06.1912 commissioned in the infantry 1937 - 04.1941 War Plans Division, War Department General Staff (Washington, DC) 12.1940 - 04.1941 Executive Officer 04.1941 - 07.1941 Commanding Officer, 36th Infantry Regiment (Camp Polk, LA) 07.1941 - 01.1942 Commanding General, 3rd Armored Brigade (Camp Polk, LA) 01.1942 - 09.1942 Commanding General, 3rd Armored Division 05.09.1942 - 10.10.1943 Commanding General, IV Armored Corps (Camp Young, CA; Camp Campbell, KY), redesignated: 10.10.1943 - 06.1945 Commanding General, XX Corps (NW Europe) 06.1945 - 06.1946 Commanding General, 8th Service Command (Dallas, TX) 06.1946 - 09.1948 Commanding General, Fifth Army (Chicago, IL) 24.09.1948 - 23.12.1950 Commanding General, Eighth Army (Korean war) 12.07.1950 - 23.12.1950 also: Commanding General, UN Ground Forces, Korea Literature: Wilson A. Heefner, Patton's bulldog : the life and service of General Walton H. Walker (2001)
Ware, Charles S	? ? - ? ?	... ... Lt.Col. ?	1943? - 1945? 1st Infantry Division (NW Europe): (05.11.1943) - 1945 Assistant Chief of Staff G-1 (Personnel)
Waters, William Edmund	12.10.1899 Louisville, KY - 16.10.1956 ?	2nd Lt. ? [O14700] ... ... Capt. 01.08.1935 ... ... Brig.Gen. 21.03.1945 (reverted to Col. 02.1946) LM ? ? BSM ? ?	Education: Virginia Military Institute (BS, 1921); Command and General Staff School (1941) 1921 commissioned in the field artillery (10.1939) 12th Field Artillery (Fort Sam Houston, TX) 1943 - 1945 1st Infantry Division (NW Europe): 14.12.1944 - 21.03.1945 Artillery Commander
Wesner, Charlie	29.10.1901 WI - 01.08.1967 Cochise, AZ	2nd Lt. 14.06.1927 [016842] Lt. 01.05.1933 Capt. 14.06.1937 Maj. ? Lt.Col. ? Col. ? (retd 31.07.1957) SSM ? ? LM ? 2x BSM ? 3x CR ? ? PH ? ?	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (BS; 02.07.1923-14.06.1927; # 8131); Battery Officers' Course, field Artillery School (1933-1934) 10.05.1920 - 01.07.1923 Private and Private 1st Class, Signal Corps 14.06.1927 commissioned in the field artillery (1928)     10th Field Artillery (Ft Lewis, WA) 1929     to Hawaii (09.1931) - (09.1932)  2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery (Ft Sheridan, IL) (10.1934)     18th Field Artillery (Ft Snelling, MN) (10.1935)     14th Field Artillery (Ft Snelling, MN) (10.1936) - (11.1938) 76th Field Artillery (Ft Francis E. Warren, WY) (10.1939) - 03.1941  Commander, C Battery, 11th Field Artillery (Schofield Barracks, TH) 1942 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 16th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (USA & Europe) 23.03.1945 - 28.04.1945 Commanding Officer, Combat Reserve Command, 9th Armored Division 1945 - 1950 Professor of Military Science and Tactics, West Virginia State College 23.08.1950 - 15.03.1953 Commanding Officer, 18th Field Artillery Group & Commanding Officer Military Post Europe
White, Charles Henry	29.11.1883 Taunton, MA - 09.04.1971 San Antonio, TX	2nd Lt. 1907 [O2268] ... ... Brig.Gen. 10.1940 Maj.Gen. 08.1941 (retd 07.1946) LM ? ?	Education: ? 1907 commissioned in the infantry 1939 - 1940 Professor of Military Science and Tactics, University of California 10.1940 - 03.1941 7th Division 03.1941 - 07.1941 Commanding General, Replacement Training Center, Camp Roberts 10.04.1942 - 22.03.1944 Commanding General, IX Army Corps [19.08.1942 redesignated: IX Corps] 03.1944 - 10.1944 Commanding General, Infantry Replacement Training Center, Camp Robinson  10.1944 - 03.1946 Member, Secretary of War's Personnel Board
White, John Winthrop	07.09.1915 OH - 25.01.1980 Middlebury, VT	2nd Lt. 14.06.1938 [021319] ... ... Col. ? (retd 01.09.1959) SSM ? ? BSM ? 2x PH ? ?	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (BS; grad. # 113011) 14.06.1938 commissioned in the infantry (10.1939)     35th Infantry (Schofield Barracks, TH) 1943 - 1944 G3 Section 4 Corps 1947 - 1948 Army Advisory Group, Nanking, China 1950 G3 Section GHQ Far Eeast Command
Wilby, Francis Bowditch	24.04.1883 Detroit, MI - 20.11.1965 Oteen, NC	2nd Lt. 13.06.1905 [O2023] 1st Lt 07.06.1907 Capt. 29.09.1912 Maj. 15.05.1917 Lt.Col. (temp) 05.08.1917-12.05.1918 Col. NA 09.04.1918-30.06.1920 [accepted 13.05.1918] Lt.Col. 11.02.1920 Col. 01.08.1935 Brig.Gen. 10.1940 Maj.Gen. 29.09.1941 (retd 31.01.1946; disability) DSM ? 2 x LM ? ?	Education: Harvard (1900-1901; MA); US Military Academy, West Point (11.06.1901-13.06.1905; BS; grad. # 4341); Engineer School (1908); School of the Line (1922); Army General Staff School (1923); Army War College (1924) 1905     commissioned, Corps of Engineers Commanding Officer, 1st Engineers (1st Division, AEF) 13.05.1918 - 30.06.1920 Colonel, Corps of Engineers, National Army 02.07.1924 - 28.05.1928 General Staff Corps, War Department General Staff (Washington, DC) 1935 - 1938 member, Mississippi River Commission 1938 - 1939 member, Beach Erosion Board 1939 - 1941 Chief of Staff, First Army 01.1942 - 09.1945 Superintendent, US Military Academy, West Point Chairman, NY State Power Authority, 1946-1950.Conultant engineer, Knappen Tibbetts Abbeit Co, 1950-1952. Publications: several professional papers
Williams, Howard	07.06.1904 St Louis, MO - 23.09.1998 Sarasota, FL	2nd Lt. ? [0275283] ... ... Col. ? (retd 25.09.1946) Medal of War (Brasil); Order of Merit (Paraguay)	Education: Command and General Staff School, Ft Leavenworth, Kansas; Graduate of the Cavalry School, Ft. Riley, Kansas (1932) 23.11.1940 - 25.09.1946 active service: Captain, Horse Cavalry Unit Commander (1613) 24 months (2nd Cavalry Division) Intelligence Staff Officer, Combat (9301) 42 months 11.1942 - ? acting G-2, XII Corps HQ USAFA ? - 1950 Military Attaché, US Embassy, Brasil When returned from Brasil, permanently in 1950, he went into the reserve.
Williamson, John	04.07.1909 New York, NY - 18.12.1992 Melbourne, FL	2nd Lt. 12.06.1935 ... ... Col. 1945 (retd 1963) SSM ? 2 x BSM ? ? LM ? 2 x	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (...-12.06.1935; grad. # 10374) 12.06.1935     commissioned in the infantry 1942 - 1943 Executive Officer, 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division) (Sicily) 1943 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division) 25.02.1945 - 1945 Commanding Officer, 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division) (NW Europe) 1954 ALS (Aviation Logistical School ??) 1960 - 1962 Chief of Staff, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan 1962 - 1963 Deputy Commander, IV Corps Teacher HS, 1967-1973.
Winkler, Norbert From Wisconsin.	? -	2nd Lt. (temp) ? [01317216] 1st Lt. (temp) ? Capt. (temp) ? SSM ? for action behind enemy lines at  Lauterburg CdeG ? ?	(1944) - (1945) 79th Infantry Regiment (Foret de Parroy, France & Germany)
Winton, George Peterson Son of George Beverly Winton (1861-1938), and Jesse McClain (1861-1931). Brother of Lt.Col. Walter F. Winton. Married (24.04.1916, Nashville, TN) Dorothy Calhoun (29.04.1893 - 11.1977); one daughter, two sons (Col. George P. Winton Jr.).	04.07.1892 San Luis Potosi, Mexico - 16.09.1958 Ft Campbell, KY	2nd Lt. 05.06.1917 (accepted 19.06.1917) [05935] 1st Lt. 05.06.1917 Capt. (temp) 05.08.1917 (resigned 12.01.1920) Capt. 01.07.1920 (accepted 20.11.1920) Maj. 01.03.1935 PH ? ?	Education: Vanderbilt University, TN (BS (1915); MS (1916)) 05.07.1917     commissioned, field artillery (10.1939)     18th Field Artillery (Ft Sill, OK)
Winton Jr, George Peterson Son of Maj. George Peterson Winton, and Dorothy Calhoun. Married Margaret Lucille Cutchin; one son, one daughter.	17.06.1918 Knoxville, TN - 28.08.1995 Columbia, SC	2nd Lt. 12.06.1939 [021819] 1st Lt. AUS 09.09.1940 Lt.Col. 22.03.1957 Col. AUS 22.08.1957 (retd 1969) ? CM ? ? LM ? ?	Education: Vanderbilt University, TN (MA); US Military Academy West Point (BS, 01.07.1935-11.06.1939; # 11416); Command and General Staff College; USA War College (1957); PhD, USC (1972 [lecturer 1973]) (10.1939)     4th Field Artillery (Ft Bragg, NC) 1943 - 1944 staff & faculty, Command and General Staff School 1945 - 1947 88th Division (Italy) 1951 - 1953 Commanding Officer, 33rd Field Artillery Battalion (1st Division) (Germany)  1959 - 1960 Commanding Officer, 57th Artillery Group 1960 - 1962 Officer of the Deputy Chief of Staff Operations, Department of the Army 1962 MAIA George Washington University, DC 1964 - 1967 Supreme HQ Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) 1967 - 1969 Arillery & Missile School, Ft Sill, OK
Winton, Walter Ferrell Son of George Beverly Winton (1861-1938), and Jesse McClain (1861-1931). Brother of Maj. George P. Winton. Married Maria Roberts Calhoun; two sons (Brig.Gen. Walter F, Winton Jr, and Lt.Col. Tyler Calhoun Winton, USAF).	11.08.1886 Santa Rosa, CA - 12.05.1952 Columbus, NM	2nd Lt. 07.10.1911 (accepted 29.12.1911) 03.03.1913, seniority 23.07.1912  [03164] 1st Lt. 01.07.1916 Capt. 15.05.1917 Maj. NA 03.07.1918 (accepted 09.07.1918) Maj. 01.07.1920 Lt.Col. USA 26.10.1918 (accepted 03.11.1918) (discharged 15.03.1920) Lt.Col. 01.08.1935	Education: Vanderbilt University, TN (1907; AB); Advanced Course, Field Artillery School (1925); Command and General Staff School (1926) 29.12.1911     commissioned, cavalry 03.03.1913     transferred, field artillery (10.1939)     82nd Field Artillery (Ft Bliss, TX)
Winton Jr, Walter Ferrell "Tito" Son of Col. Walter Ferrell Winton, and Maria Roberts Calhoun Winton.	23.07.1917 Nashville, TN - 19.05.2007 Kimball Farms Nursing Center, Lenox	2nd Lt.  11.06.1940 [022966] 1st Lt. (AUS) 10.10.1941 Maj. (AUS) ? Maj. 29.08.1952 Col. (AUS) 24.09.1952 Brig.Gen. ? (retd 01.08.1970) SSM ? LM ? 2x BSM ? 4x CR ? 2x PH ? ? CdeG ? ?	Education: IX Corps Area West Point Preparatory School at Fort Scott, CA (1935); US Military Academy, West Point (01.07.1936-10.06.1940; BS; # 11871); Command and General Staff College (1953); National War College (1956); Parachute School, Ft Benning, GA (05.1942) 11.07.1943 - spring1944 Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Mediterranean) 1944 - 1945 G3 Section (G2), HQ 82 US Airborne Division (NW Europe) 1946 - 1948 on the staff of the U.S. Army Representative to the United Nations 1951 - 1952 HQ 8th Army & Chief of Staff, 24th Infantry Division (Korea) 1953 - 1955 personal staff of General Matthew Ridgway, Army Chief of Staff 1959 - 1963 Office Deputy Chief of Staff (Personnel), Department of the Army 1963     Military Attaché American Union 1963 - 1964 Commander, 2nd Brigade (25th Infantry Division) 1964 - 1966 Deputy Commanding General, Ft Polk 1966 - 1968 J-1 Joint Chiefs of Staff 1968 Assistant Division Commander, 6th Infantry Division 1968 - 1969 Assistant Division Commander, 5th Infantry Division 1969 - 1970 Chief of Staff, 1 Corps (Group) 1970     Deputy Commanding General, Army Training Centre, Ft Dix
Wolfe, Peter Thomas "Tom" Son of Johann Wolff (1845-1920), and Nora Susan Griggs (1852-1901). Married 1st (15.04.1918, Chattanooga, Hamilton Cnty, TN) Evelyn May Mills (11.05.1896-?); three children. Married 2nd Ella Louise Griggs (c. 1900-?).	28.04.1896 Birmingham, Jefferson, AL - 12.03.1966 Corvallis, Benton, OR [Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Mltn, OR]	1st Lt. 01.07.1920 (accepted 30.09.1920)  [O11437] Capt. 01.03.1934 ... ... Col. ? (retd 30.06.1946; disability) SSM ? ?	Education: Basic Course, Infantry School (1922) 08.06.1917 - 18.07.1918 Private, Private 1st class, Corporal & Sergeant, Company C 11th Infantry 01.06.1918     2nd Lt. of Infantry, US Army [accepted 19.07.1918] 25.02.1919     1st Lt. USA [accepted 01.03.1919; vacated 30.09.1920] (10.1939) 15th Infantry (Ft Lewis, WA) (06.1942)     Executive Officer, Amphibious Training Center, Camp Edwards 70th Infantry Division
Wolfe Jr, William Roy	13.06.1924 Honolulu, HI - 27.06.2002 San Antonio, TX	2nd Lt. 05.06.1945 [O27514] ... ... Maj.Gen. ? (retd 1980)	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (1945; grad. # 14908) 05.06.1945 commissioned in the Field Artillery 09.1977 - 09.1979 Commanding General, South Eastern Task Force (Italy)
Woodruff, Roscoe Barnett	09.02.1891 Oskaloosa, IA - 24.07.1975 San Antonio, TX	2nd Lt. 06.1915 [O3819] ... ... Brig.Gen. ? Maj.Gen. 09.07.1942 (retd 31.01.1953) DSM ? 2 x SSM ? 3 x BSM ? 2 x AM ? 2 x CR ? ? PH ? ?	Education: US Military Academy, West Point (...-06.1915; grad. # 5368) 06.1915 commissioned in the infantry 1936 - 1940 Operations and Training Deivision, War Department General Staff (Washington, DC) 1940 - 1942 Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Infantry Division 01.1942 - 06.1942 Assistant Division Commander, 77th Infantry Division 06.1942 - 05.1943 Commanding General, 77th Infantry Division 05.1943 - 13.02.1944 Commanding General, VII Corps 03.1944 - 06.1944 Commanding General, 84th Infantry Division 11.1944 - 11.1945 Commanding General, 24th Infantry Division 14.11.1945 - 01.02.1948 Commanding General, I Corps [except for 05.02.1946-03.04.1946] 1951 - 1953 Commanding General, XV Corps
Wyman, Willard Gordon Son of John Monroe and Minnie B. (Haynes) Wyman. Married (27.09.1921) Ethel Mae Megginson; two daughters, one son.	21.03.1898 Augusta, Kennebec, ME - 29.03.1969 Walter Reid General Hospital, Washington, DC [Arlington National Cemetery, VA]	2nd Lt. 1919 Maj. Lt.Col. Col. Brig.Gen. 11.1943 Maj.Gen. 11.1944 Lt.Gen. 1952 Gen. 1956 (retd 1958) DSC ? ? DSM ? 3 x SSM ? ? LM ? ? BSM ? 2 x Victory Medal; German Occupation Medal; Yangtze Service Medal (Naval); National Defense Medal; Asiatic Theater Medal with 2 campaign stars; European Theater Medal with 7 campaign stars and arrowhead; Occupation Medal; Victory Medal WW II; Legion of Honor (France); Croix de Guerre with palm (France); Russian Order of the Great War, 1st class	Education: Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, ME (1912-1915); Coburn Classical Insitute, Waterville, ME (1916);  Bowdoin College, Cumberland, ME (1917; Hon. MA 1951); US Military Academy, West Point (1917-11.06.1919; grad. # 6383); Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, VA (1920); Cavalry School, Fort Riley, KS (1921); Signal School, Fort Monmouth, NJ (1926); Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth (1937) 1919 commissioned in the Coast Artillery Corps 1928 - 1932 student of the Chinese language, Military Attache's office in Beijing (member of the Central Asiatic Expedition under Roy Chapman Andrews, 1930) 07.1940 - 05.1941 Aide to the Commanding General, 1st Cavalry Division, then IX Corps 05.1941 - 08.1941 Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel, IX Corps 1941 - 1942 assigned to the Plans Division, War Department General Staff 1942 - 1942 Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (Assistant G-3), China-India-Burma Theater of Operations 1942 - 1943 Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (Assistant G-3), Allied Force HQ 05.11.1943 - 07.10.1944 Assistant Division Commander, 1st Infantry Division 11.1944 - 16.08.1945 Commanding General, 71st Infantry Division 1945 - 1946 G-2, Army Ground Forces 1947 - 1950 Chief of Staff, 1st Army 1951 - 1951 HQ Department of the Army (Washington, DC) 24.12.1951 - 31.07.1952 Commanding General, IX Corps (Korean War) 1952 - 1954 Commanding General, Allied Land Forces in Southeastern Europe 03.1954 - 06.1955 Commanding General, 6th Army (Presidio of San Francisco) 08.1955 - 1958 Commanding General, Continental Army Command (Deputy till 03.1956)

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