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John S. Brown
indiana university alumni | living people | military historians | united states army generals | united states military academy alumni<br /> John S. Brown is a retired brigadier general in the United States Army who was the Chief of Military History of the United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) from December 1998 to October 2005.
Brown graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1971. He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 66th Armor, in Iraq and Kuwait during the Gulf War and returned to Kuwait as commander of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, in 1995. He served as Chief Historian and Commander of the U.S. Army Center of Military History from 1998 to 2005; however, he retired from active duty on 1 August 2004.
Amos Fries
burials at arlington national cemetery | united states army generals Amos Alfred Fries was a general in the United States Army and 1898 graduate of the United States Military Academy. Fries was the second chief of the army's Chemical Warfare Service, established during World War I.
Early life
Amos Alfred Fries was born March 17, 1873 in Viroqua, Wisconsin.Patterson, Michael R. " Amos Alfred Fries", arlingtoncemetery.net, accessed October 21, 2008. His family moved to Missouri after he was born and then moved to Oregon. Fries earned an appointment to the United States Military Academy and graduated there in 1898.Russell, Edward. War and Nature, ( Google Books), Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 38, (ISBN 0521799376), accessed October 21, 2008.James Dalton II
1945 deaths | american military personnel of world war ii | united states army generals | year of birth unknown James Dalton II was a general and commander of United States Army forces during World War II. During the strategically significant Guadacanal and New Georgia Campaigns he commanded the 161st Infantry Regiment in the rank of colonel.Miller, p. 346.
After the 161st was deployed to the Philippines during the Battle of Luzon, Dalton was promoted to brigadier general and reassigned as assistant commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division. Soon after, Dalton was killed in action with Japanese forces during the Battle of Balete Pass in May, 1945. The pass was renamed Dalton Pass after the battle, a name it retains to the present day.Government of the Philippines Dalton was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action in World War II.Cagley
Joseph Eldridge Hamblin
1828 births | 1870 deaths | people of massachusetts in the american civil war | united states army generalsJoseph Eldridge Hamblin (1828-70)was an American soldier of the Civil War, born at Yarmouth, Mass. Long a member of the Seventh Regiment of the New York militia, he enlisted in 1861 as adjutant in Duryea's Zouaves and served in Virginia under Butler, McClellan, Meade, and Grant, and Sheridan in the Sixty-fifth New York. He especially distinguished himself at Cedar Creek, where he was wounded. He was brevetted brigadier general and in 1865 promoted to full rank, with the brevet of major general, for gallantry at Sailor's Creek After the war he was prominent in the New York National Guard.
Selden Connor
1839 births | 1917 deaths | governors of maine | people from maine | people of maine in the american civil war | tufts university alumni | united states army generalsSelden Connor (1839-1917) was an American soldier. He was born in Fairfield, Me. and in 1859 graduated at Tufts College. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in the4 First Vermont Volunteers, but later joined the Nineteenth Maine Volunteers, of which he became colonel, and wasa severeely wounded in the battle of the Wilderness. In 1864 he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers, but in 1866 was mustered out of service. He was Governor of Maine in 1876- 78. Subsequently, he was United States pension agent 1882- 86, in 1890 became president of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, in 1896- 99 was senior vice commander in chief of the Order of the Loyal Legion, and in 1897 was again appointed pension agent. His address on Hannibal Hamlin was published in 1909.
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Benjamin Alvord, Jr.
1860 births | 1927 deaths | burials at arlington national cemetery | united states army generals | united states military academy alumniBenjamin Alvord, Jr. (May 15, 1860 - April 13, 1927) was an American soldier. He was the son of Benjamin Alvord, who was a scientist and soldier.
Alvord was born in Washington, DC and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1882. He was assigned to the 20th Infantry Regiment.
Fred K. Mahaffey
1934 births | 1986 deaths | american military personnel of the vietnam war | burials at arlington national cemetery | george washington university alumni | people from new mexico | recipients of the legion of merit | recipients of the silver star medal | recipients of us distinguished flying cross | united states army generals | university of denver alumni Fred Keith Mahaffey was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Readiness Command (USCINCRED) from 1985 to 1986. Considered a rising star in the Army, his career was cut short by cancer.
Military career
Mahaffey was born on January 4, 1934 in Clovis, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1955 and was commissioned upon graduation. and earned as masters degree in International Affairs at George Washington University.Henry I. Hodes
1899 births | 1962 deaths | american military personnel of the korean war | american military personnel of world war ii | united states army generals | united states military academy alumni Henry Irving Hodes was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG) from 1956 to 1959.
Military career
Hodes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1920. In addition to commanding U.S. Army Europe, he also commanded the 112th Infantry Regiment during World War II, the 24th Infantry Division in 1952 in the Korea War, served as Commandant of the Command and General Staff College from 1952 to 1954, and was Commanding General, Seventh United States Army from 1954 to 1956.Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.
1917 births | american military personnel of the vietnam war | american military personnel of world war ii | recipients of the legion of merit | recipients of the purple heart medal | united states army generals | united states military academy alumni Walter T. Kerwin, Jr. was a United States Army four star general who served as Commanding General, U.S. Continental Army Command (CG CONARC), 1973; Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command (CG FORSCOM) from 1973 to 1974; and Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army (VCSA) from 1974 to 1978.
Military career
Kerwin graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1939 and was commissioned in the field artillery and assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division. During World War II he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. In December 1944, while in France, he was wounded in Mutzig and evacuated to the United States, returning to Europe in 1945 and assigned to the Theater Operations Division of the War Department's General Staff.George S. Blanchard
1920 births | 2006 deaths | american military personnel of the vietnam war | american military personnel of world war ii | people from washington, d.c. | recipients of the legion of merit | recipients of the silver star medal | recipients of us distinguished flying cross | syracuse university alumni | united states army generals | united states military academy alumni George Samuel Blanchard was a United States Army four star general who served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Europe/Commander, Central Army Group (CINCUSAREUR/COMCENTAG) from 1975 to 1979.
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