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1939-1945

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Ramsburg,
Charles Everett
C.E. Ramsburg
23.10.1917
Frederick, MD
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2nd Lt. AUS
18.09.1943 [081160]
Maj. AUS
06.04.1956
Capt. USA
24.03.1958, date of rank 14.05.1951
Maj. USA
01.07.1958
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
?
?
Commendation Ribbon CR
?
?
Education: graduate Army Command and General Staff College (ACGSC) (C), 1955
21.04.1936
-
04.10.1940
enlisted service
30.01.1943
-
17.09.1943
enlisted service
18.09.1943


commissioned, Army of the United States (AUS)



[possibly served in the 87th Division/29th Division in England/Normandy]
01.11.1954


Warrant Officer W-1, Reserve Army
01.11.1954


Chief Warrant Officer W-2, Reserve Army
1950s


on the active of the US Army
Reeves,
Andrew P [?]


SHOULD MOST PROBABLY BE:  Andrew R. Reeves (see next entry)
?
?
-
?
?
Col.
?
(1944)     Assistant Chief of Staff G-2, VIII Corps

 

Reeves,
Andrew R

A.R. Reeves
?
?
-
?
?
2nd Lt.
? [O6528]
...
...
Maj.
01.08.1935
Lt.Col. ?
?
Col. ?
?
Education: ?
?     commissioned in the field artillery
21.06.1939 - (10.1939) instructor National Guard (Fayetville, AR)

 

Reinhardt,
Emil Fred

E.F. Reinhardt
27.10.1888
Bay City, MI
-
24.07.1969
Houston, TX
[Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery]
2nd Lt.
06.1910 [O2887]
...
...
Brig.Gen.
04.1941
Maj.Gen.
17.04.1942 (retd 30.09.1946; disability)
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
?
?
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
?
2 x
Education: US Military Academy, West Point (...-06.1910; grad. # 4931)
06.1910


commissioned in the infantry
10.1941
-
05.1942
Commanding General, Camp Wolters (Mineral Wells)
05.1942
-
11.1942
Commanding General, 76th Infantry Division
07.12.1942
-
?
Commanding General, XIII Corps
12.1943
-
14.03.1944
Commanding General, VIII Corps
23.03.1944
-
01.09.1944
Commanding General, IX Corps
09.1944
-
08.1945
Commanding General, 69th Infantry Division (NW Europe; first contact with the Russians)
Rice,
Charles Henry
C.H. Rice
Son of Frank and Margaret (Thobro) Rice.
10.05.1882
Laramie, WY
-
04.01.1963
San Antonio, TX
2nd Lt.
1907 [O2239]
1st Lt.
?
Capt.
?
Maj.
?
Lt.Col.
?
Col.
01.01.1936 (retd 1942)
Commendation Ribbon CR
?
?
Education: US Military Academy, West Point (1907; grad. # 4573)
1907


commissioned in the Infantry
WW I


General Staff, GHQ & 1st Army, AEF



American Forces in Germany
1935
-
1938
Instructor, 41st Division, Organized Reserves National Guard
01.06.1938
-
08.06.1940
Commanding Officer, 16th Infantry Regiment (Fort Jay, NY)
1942?
-
1944
on active duty as Commanding Officer, Fort McDowell (until retirement due to disability)
Ridgway,
Matthew Bunker

M.B. Ridgway






Son of Colonel Thomas Ridgway, an artillery officer, and the former Ruth Starbuck Bunker. Married 1st (?) Caroline Blount (divirced); two daughters. Married 2nd (1930) Margaret Wilcox (divorced 1946). Married 3rd (13.12.1947) Mary Anthony Long; one son.
03.03.1895 Fort Monroe, Va.
-
08.1993
Fox Chapel, PA
[Arlington National Cemetery, VA]
2nd Lt.
20.04.1917 [O5264]
1st Lt.
15.05.1917
Capt. (T)
05.08.1917
Capt.
18.07.1919
Maj.
01.10.1932
Lt.Col.
01.07.1940
Col. (T)
11.12.1941
Brig.Gen. (T)
01.1942
Maj.Gen. (T)
06.08.1942
Lt.Gen. (T)
04.06.1945
Brig.Gen.
01.11.1945
Gen.
11.05.1951 (retd 30.06.1955)
Distinguished Service Cross (US) DSC
11.09.1943
?
Distinguished Service Cross (US) DSC
19.07.1944
?
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
1944
?
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
1945
?
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
1951
?
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
1955
?
Silver Star (US) SSM
13.03.1945
?
Silver Star (US) SSM
1945
?
Legion of Merit (US) LM
03.06.1943
?
Legion of Merit (US) LM
02.12.1943
?
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
1945
?
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
1946
?
Purple Heart PH
?
?

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1986); Congressional Gold Medal (1991)
Many foreign decorations.

Education: US Military Academy, West Point (14.06.1913-20.04.1917); Infantry School, Fort Benning, GA (1925); Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth (1935); Army War College (1937)
20.04.1917


commissioned in the ?
1917
-
1918
company commander and adjutant of the 3d Infantry
1918
-
1924
instructor in Spanish and athletics executive at West Point
1925
-
1927
15th Infantry in China and the 9th Infantry in Texas
1927
-
1929
served on the American Electoral Commission in Nicaragua and the Bolivia-Paraguay Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation
1931
-
1932
served with the 33d Infantry in the Canal Zone
1932
-
1933
technical adviser to the governor general of the Philippines
1935
-
?
Assistant Chief of Staff, G–3, VI Corps Area
?
-
?
Assistant Chief of Staff, G–3, Second Army
1937
-
1939
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, Fourth Army
09.1939
-
01.1942
War Plans Division, War Department General Staff (Washington, DC)
25.03.1942
-
26.06.1942
Assistant Division Commander, 82nd Infantry Division (Camp Claiborne, LA)
26.06.1942
-
15.08.1942
Commanding General, 82nd Infantry Division (Camp Claiborne, LA)
15.08.1942
-
27.08.1944
Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division (Fort Bragg, NC; Sicily, Italy, Normandy)
27.08.1944
-
09.1945
Commanding General, XVII Airborne Corps (France, Belgium, Holland, Germany)
08.1945


assigned command Luzon Area Command, Phillipine Islands
10.1945
-
01.1946
Commanding General, Mediterranean Theater of Operations (& Deputy Supreme Allied Commander)
1946
-
1948
representative of the United States to the United Nations Military Staff Committee and chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board
1948
-
1949
Commander-in-Chief, Caribbean Command
1949
-
1950
Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration, US Army (Washington, DC)
1950
-
04.1951
Commanding General, Eighth Army (Korea)
04.1951
-
30.05.1952
Commander-in-Chief, US Forces in the Far East Command and Supreme Commander, Allied Powers in Japan
30.05.1952
-
11.07.1953
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
16.08.1953
-
30.061955
Chief of Staff, US Army
Published: Soldier : the memoirs  of Matthew B. Ridgway (as told to Harold H. Martin) (1956); The Korean War (1967)
Literature: George Charles Mitchell, Matthew B. Ridgway : soldier, statesman, scholar, citizen (2002)
Robertson,
Harry Staples

H.S. Robertson
Son of Harry Cook & Ann Robertson.
22.04.1896
Washington County, MN
-
02.1966
Alameda County, CA
2nd Lt.
26.10.1917 [accepted 22.11.1917]  [07070]
1st Lt. (temp)
?, seniority 26.10.1917
1st Lt.
?, seniority 26.10.1917
Capt.
01.07.1920
Maj.
01.08.1935
Lt.Col.
?
Col.
? (retd 31.07.1953)
Legion of Merit (US) LM
?
?
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
?
?
Commendation Ribbon CR
?
2x
Education: Infantry School Company Officers' Course (1927)
30.06.1916
-
19.12.1916
Sergeant, Company K3 Infantry, Minnesota National Guard
15.08.1917


2nd Lieutenant, Infantry Section, Officer Reserve Corps (active duty, 15.08.1917-22.11.1917)
22.11.1917


commissioned, Infantry
(01.1931)


84th Division (Indianapolis, MN)
(10.1939)


Reserve Officer Training Corps, Council Bluffs High School, Council Bluffs, IA
(10.1944)
-
(1945)
Commanding Officer, 291st Infantry Regiment

Robertson,
Walter Melville

W.M. Robertson


Son of William Walter and Mary Fannie (Pettit) Robertson. Married (10.08.1916) Lorene Powell Crebs.
15.06.1888
Nelson County, VA
-
22.11.1954
San Francisco, CA
[Arlington National Cemetery, VA]
2nd Lt.
12.06.1912 [O3378]
...
...
Maj.
01.07.1929
Lt.Col.
01.08.1935
...
...
Brig.Gen.
12.1941
Maj.Gen. (T)
17.08.1942
Maj.Gen.
24.01.1948 (retd 30.06.1950)
Distinguished Service Cross (US) DSC
?
?
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
?
2 x
Silver Star (US) SSM
?
?
Legion of Merit (US) LM
?
?
Bronze Star Medal (US) BSM
?
?
ETO Service Medal with 5 campaign stars; Hon. Companion of the Order of the Bath (UK); Legion of Honor (France); Croix de Guerre with palm (France); Military Cross (Czechoslovakia); Order of White Lion, 3rd class (Czechoslovakia); Order of Wars of Fatherland (Russia)
Education: Central State Normal School, OK (1907); student, University of Oklahoma (1907); US Military Academy, West Point (...-12.06.1912; grad. # 5059); advanced course, Infantry School (1925); Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth (1926); Army War College (1930)
12.06.1912
    commissioned in the infantry
1912
-
1915
Hawaii
1917
-
1918
training units (US)
05.1918
-
02.1920
with AEF (France)
1920
-
1924
Inspector General's Department
1926
-
1929
instructor, Command and General Staff School (Fort Leavenworth, KS)
1930
-
1933
instructor, Army War College
1933
-
1936
Philippine Islands
09.07.1936
-
1940
Office of the Chief of Supply (G-4), War Department General Staff
08.11.1940
-
15.12.1941
Commanding Officer, 9th Infantry Regiment
15.12.1941
-
11.05.1942
Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Infantry Division
05.1942
-
06.1945
Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division (NW Europe) [except for 22.11-02.12.1943]
06.1945
-
03.1946
Commanding General, XV Corps (occupational forces in Austria till 07.1945, then occupation Germany)
03.1946
-
09.1947
Head, US Delegation Allied Control Commission, Bulgaria
1947


Deputy Commander, 6th Army
California State Director of Civil Defense, Sacramento, CA, 1950-1954.
Rogers Jr.,
John M

J.M. Rogers Jr.
1905?
?
-
(08?).01.1948
Monmouth County, NJ
...
...
Maj.
?
Lt.Col.
? (retd)
1943?
-
1944?
1st Infantry Division (NW Europe):
(05.11.1943)
-
15.08.1944 Assistant Chief of Staff G-5 (Civil Affairs)
Roosevelt  Jr.,
Theodore
"Ted"

T. Roosevelt Jr. T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr. T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.
T. Roosevelt Jr.

13.09.1887
Oyster Bay Cove, Long Island, NY
-
12.07.1944
Normandy, France
[Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Colleville-sur-Mer
Basse-Normandie, France, Plot D, Row 28, Grave 45]
Brig.Gen.
17.12.1941 [O-139726]
Medal of Honor MoH
28.09.1944
Normandy 06.06.44 [posthumously]
Soldier, politician, publisher, author. See for more details on his personal & political life the entry at Wikipedia.
04.1917
-
1919
commissioned as Maj., transferred to the Reserve as Col.
04.1941
 
 
recalled to active duty
04.1941
-
1942
Commanding Officer, 26th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division) (US, North Africa)
1942
-
1943
Assistant Divisional Commander, 1st Infantry Division (North Africa, Sicily) (relieved by Patton to restore discipline in the unit)
1943
-
1944
liaison duties with the French army in Italy
02.1944
-
12.07.1944
Assistant Divisional Commander, 4th Infantry Division (NW Europe) (only general in first wave at Utah Beach) (died of a heart attack)
Literature: H. Paul Jeffers, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. : the life of a war hero (2002)
Ryder,
Charles Wolcott
"Doc"

C.W. Ryder
16.01.1892
Topeka, KS
-
17.08.1960
Vineyard Haven, MA
2nd Lt.
12.06.1915 [O3802]
...
...
Brig.Gen.
01.1942
Maj.Gen. (T)
25.06.1942 (retd 28.02.1950; disability)
Maj.Gen.
1948
Distinguished Service Cross (US) DSC
?
2 x
Distinguished Service Medal (US) DSM
?
?
Silver Star (US) SSM
?
2 x
Legion of Merit (US) LM
?
2 x
Purple Heart PH
?
?
Education: US Military Academy, West Point (...-12.06.1915; grad. # 5351)
12.06.1915


commissioned in the infantry
1937
-
1941
Commandant of Cadet, US Military Academy, West Point (NY)
01.1941
-
01.1942
Chief of Staff, VI Army Corps
1942
-
1942
Assistant Division Commander, 90th Infantry Division
1942
-
1942
Assistant Division Commander, 34th Infantry Division
05.1942
-
1944
Commanding General, 34th Infantry Division
02.09.1944
-
06.12.1948
Commanding General, IX Corps
1949


served in the Office of the Chief of Staff, US Army (Washington, DC)
       

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