United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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Superintendent Lieutenant General GARRISON H. DAVIDSON Gar Davidson has been a jack-of-all-trades throughout his service: football coach, teacher, engineer as well as soldier. After his graduation in 1927. he coached football for eleven seasons at the Academy, the last five as head coach. For the five seasons he guided the Army ' s gridiron destinies, an A. P. survey ranked Army sixteenth among the teams of the nation. Toward the end of 1932 while still a second lieutenant and 29 years old, he was the youngest head coach that West Point had ever had. As engineer, he supervised the near billion dollar program for the expansion of the ports and supply depots throughout the country just prior to World War II. During that war he served as Army engineer in combat in North Africa. Sicily. Southern France, and Germain, participating in three amphibious landings and seven campaigns. He fought as a combat infantryman during the hectic first year of the Korean War. notably in the Naktong perimeter fighting. As a teacher, he taught natural philosophy at the Acadenn and commanded the Army ' s senior tactical school, the Command and General Staff College, at Fort

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Department of Defense Secretary of the Arm ) The Honorable Wilber M. Brueker Chief of Staff of the Army General Maxwell D. Taylor yiF VIII H JUi V- iff- p '

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Brigadier General JOHN L. THROCKMORTON Appointed Commandant of Cadets at the Military Academ) in April 1956, Brigadier General John L. Throckmorton is responsible for the command and supervision of the United States Corps of Cadets. General Throckmorton was horn in Kansas City. Missouri, in 1913 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1935. In 1941 he returned to West Point as an instructor in Chemistry. In No- vember 1943, General Throckmorton was assigned as Assistant Operations Officer of First Army and served in both the European and Pacific Theaters. During the period 1946-1949 General Throckmorton served as Operations Officer for the Department of Tactics at the Military Academy. Later he assumed command of the First Regiment of the Corps of Cadets. During the early stages of the Korean War. he commanded the 5th Regimental Combat Team where he was awarded the DSC. Silver Star, and the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Legion of Merit. Upon his return to the United States. General Throckmorton served as Aide to the Chief of Staff. General J. Lawton Collins, and later attended the National War College in Washing- ton. D.C. Commandant of Cadets Dean of the Academic Board Brigadier General GERALD A. COUNTS A graduate of the Class of 1917. Brigadier General Gerald A. Counts assumed the duties of the Dean on 1 August 1957. In this capacity, he is charged with the responsibility of administering the academic sys- tem and maintaining the high standards of the Military Academy in this important facet of the Cadet s life. Born in Ranger. Texas. General Counts has served over forty ears on active service in the United States Army since he graduated from the Military Academy. He has spent approximately thirty years of this time at West Point, serving as Professor and Head of the Physics and Chemistry Department before he became the Dean. Serving overseas in both World Wars, Gen- eral Counts was assigned to the 6th Engineers of the 3rd Infantry Division in World War I. General Counts served on the headquarters staff of the North African Theatre of Operations in World War II. and in the Headquarters of the Twelfth Army Group under General Omar Bradley.