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Who is, please ?
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Hi,
It is Major General Fay Brink Prickett with GFM von Rundstedt.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne ... popup=true
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... -153486000
It is Major General Fay Brink Prickett with GFM von Rundstedt.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne ... popup=true
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ ... -153486000
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The general officer in the lower picture is James Van Fleet, taken when he was CG Eighth Army in Korea.
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Don't blame you for asking. The picture was back a ways, and I suppose when I posted I though I was on the last page of the thread, and obviously I was not. It was the picture of the four star general in a steel helmet with the Eighth Army insignia painted or on a decal just above his four stars.
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Who can this Maj Gen be? The badge on the helmet showed he was from 84th Infantry Division.
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Alexander R Bolling commanded 84th Division from 1 Oct 1944, first as a BG, promoted to MG 3 Jan 1945.
Alexander R Bolling commanded 84th Division from 1 Oct 1944, first as a BG, promoted to MG 3 Jan 1945.
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General Jackson memorial and Photograph at Find a grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/492 ... ll-jackson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/492 ... ll-jackson
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Wow that's rare! Thank you LAstry!LAstry wrote: ↑14 Feb 2022, 15:31General Jackson memorial and Photograph at Find a grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/492 ... ll-jackson
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He must have been quite well thought of, which is odd since there is so little know about him. He was a direct commission into the Infantry as a 2d Lt from the ORC on 15 August 1917 and then was offered and accepted an RA commission as a 2d Lt on 14 November 1917. Continuous service through his death, on 18 August 1940 he was promoted to Lt.Col. RA, then commissioned as a Col. AUS on 24 December 1941, and then Brig. Gen. AUS on 24 May 1942. He was likely promoted to Maj. Gen. when appointed CG of the 84th Infantry Division, so c. late January or early February 1943. That is a pretty meteoric rise for a now obscure non West Pointer.
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Was he a graduate of one of the state military colleges - Norwich, VMI, etc.?Richard Anderson wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 22:03He must have been quite well thought of, which is odd since there is so little know about him. He was a direct commission into the Infantry as a 2d Lt from the ORC on 15 August 1917 and then was offered and accepted an RA commission as a 2d Lt on 14 November 1917. Continuous service through his death, on 18 August 1940 he was promoted to Lt.Col. RA, then commissioned as a Col. AUS on 24 December 1941, and then Brig. Gen. AUS on 24 May 1942. He was likely promoted to Maj. Gen. when appointed CG of the 84th Infantry Division, so c. late January or early February 1943. That is a pretty meteoric rise for a now obscure non West Pointer.
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I haven't been able to find a reference to his education, although his ANC entry says he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Georgetown University and also taught at Cornell between the wars.daveshoup2MD wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 21:00Was he a graduate of one of the state military colleges - Norwich, VMI, etc.?Richard Anderson wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 22:03He must have been quite well thought of, which is odd since there is so little know about him. He was a direct commission into the Infantry as a 2d Lt from the ORC on 15 August 1917 and then was offered and accepted an RA commission as a 2d Lt on 14 November 1917. Continuous service through his death, on 18 August 1940 he was promoted to Lt.Col. RA, then commissioned as a Col. AUS on 24 December 1941, and then Brig. Gen. AUS on 24 May 1942. He was likely promoted to Maj. Gen. when appointed CG of the 84th Infantry Division, so c. late January or early February 1943. That is a pretty meteoric rise for a now obscure non West Pointer.
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Interesting; not to infer too much, but being an ROTC professor at Georgetown and any of the Ivies was, presumably, a noteworthy posting (as opposed to, say, Wilberforce or UPR or Random Directional State Normal School).Richard Anderson wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 21:35I haven't been able to find a reference to his education, although his ANC entry says he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Georgetown University and also taught at Cornell between the wars.daveshoup2MD wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 21:00Was he a graduate of one of the state military colleges - Norwich, VMI, etc.?Richard Anderson wrote: ↑16 Feb 2022, 22:03He must have been quite well thought of, which is odd since there is so little know about him. He was a direct commission into the Infantry as a 2d Lt from the ORC on 15 August 1917 and then was offered and accepted an RA commission as a 2d Lt on 14 November 1917. Continuous service through his death, on 18 August 1940 he was promoted to Lt.Col. RA, then commissioned as a Col. AUS on 24 December 1941, and then Brig. Gen. AUS on 24 May 1942. He was likely promoted to Maj. Gen. when appointed CG of the 84th Infantry Division, so c. late January or early February 1943. That is a pretty meteoric rise for a now obscure non West Pointer.
Some interesting history (consider the sources, but still):
[urlhttps://rotc.georgetown.edu/about/history/][/url]
https://armyrotc.cornell.edu/the-legacy/