US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)

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Deputy Commanding Brigadier General JAMES H. CASH General BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES H. CASH, born in Glencoe, Oklahoma, 16 March 1904, was appointed 2d Lieutenant, In- fantry upon completion of ROTC studies at Oklahoma State University, In january 1936 he was ordered to active duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Oklahoma district. June 1941 he was ordered to Headquarters, VIII Corps area at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he served until August 1942, when he was assigned as Inspector General of llth Armored Division. He served overseas during Wtmrld War II, in England, France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, as the Inspector General of the XXII Corps. General Cash was assigned to the Third Army in November 1945 as the Army Inspector General. In january 1948 General Cash returned to the states and served in the Inspector Generals office, Wasliiiigton, D. C. General Cash left Washingttin to attend the Advanced Of- ficers' Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Upon gradua- tion, he was ordered to Fort Dix, New Jersey, and successively as Commanding Officer of the 47th Infantry, Deputy Post Commander, and Commanding Officer of the Go Devil Regi- ment C6Oth Infantryj. In 1951 General Cash returned to Germany with the V Corps. In June 1952, he became Commanding Ofhcer of the 102d Infantry. He then became Chief of Staff of the 43d Di- vision, and later Chief of Stafif of the 5th Division. In july 1954, the General returned to the states and was assigned as Executive to the G-3, Continental Army Command, Fort Mon- roe, Virginia. In june 1955 he was promoted to Deputy G-3. In February 1956 he was assigned to KMAG, in Korea, as Senior Advisor to the 5th Korean Corps, and later as Senior Advisor to the Commanding General of the Korean Army Training Command. Upon leaving Korea, General Cash was assigned as Chief of the Army Section Military Assistance Advisory Group, japan. In july 1959 he was assigned to his present duties.

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2 kia- an rafsg ,,-v- BIAJOR GENERAL HOWARD KER was born in Staunton, Virginia, October 12, 1902. He graduated from the US Military Academy in 1924 and from Cornell University in 1927, receiv- ing the degree of Civil Engineer. He is also a graduate of the U. S. Army Engineer School, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. Prior to Worlcl War ll, he served with engineer units at Fort Humphreys, Virginia and at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He served on Reserve Officers Training Corps duty at the Uni- versity of Alabama from 1930 to 1954. From 1934 to 1937, while assigned to the Philadelphia Engineer District, he was in charge of the conversion of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal from a barge canal to a ship canal. From 1937 to 1941, he served at the Wluite House as Engineer Ofhcer in Charge of Buildings and Grounds. ln 1941 and 1942, he commanded the 86th Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion at Fort Knox and Camp Joseph T. Robinson. From 1942 to 1944, he served as Chief, Department of Engi- neering and later as Executive Officer, the Engineer School. From November 194-fi till September 1945, he commanded the oth Engineer Special Brigade in the European Theater of Oper- Major General HOWARD KER C017I11lH1lI1i1Zg General ations, participating in the Northern France, Rhineland and Ardennes Campaigns. He returned to the Engineer School in 1945 as Chief of Operations and was appointed Assistant Commandant in 1946. He attended the Industrial College in 1947-1948. From 1948 to 1950, he served as Assistant Engineer of Maintenance of the Panama Canal. He became a member of the staff and faculty of the Army War College in -Iuly 1950, remaining there until july 1953, when he was assigned to the Far East Command, where he served first as Engineer, First Corps and later as Engineer, Eighth Army. ln June 1954, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Engineers for Troop Operations. He served additionally, from July 1956, as Acting Deputy Chief of Engineers for Military Operations. ln March 1957, he was assigned as Engineer, US Army Europe, his last assignment before assuming command of Fort Leonard XVood. July 13, 1960. His decorations include the l.egion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Order of the British Empire QGreat Britainb, the Order of Military Merit 4Brazilb and the Order of Merit CULCHIJ with Silver Star CRepublic of Koreaj.

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