US Army Training Center - Armor Yearbook (Fort Knox, KY)

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Z I i 1 MAJOR GENERAL GORDON B. ROGERS Commanding General, 3d Armored Division Major General Gordon B. Rogers was born in Manchester. Tennessee in 1901. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Caifggzf when he graduated from the United States Military Academy in . His first assignment was as a Cavalry Troop Commander in the lst Cavalry Regiment. General Rogers attended the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1928. ln 1930 he was a member of the glympic Horse Show Team and in 1934 played on the Army Polo eam. Following troop duty in the 10th and 2d Cavalry Regiments, General Rogers attended the Command and General Staff School. Upon graduation in 1939 he was assigned to the 6th Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he served as a Troop and a Squadron Commander. ln February 1942 he joined the 3d Cavalry Regiment and became its Regimental Commander. In July, 1942, the general was made G2 of I Corps, then located at Columbia, South Carolina. He stayed with the Corps as it moved first to Australia and then to New Guinea. In December of that year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in the Papuan Campaign, New Guinea. The Distinguished Service Cross is the nationis second highest award for valor on the battlefield. An Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Cross was awarded him for another act of valor in New Guinea later in December 1942. Following his tour with the 1 Corps, General- Rogers became G2 of the Army Ground Forces, remaining with that headquarters until September, 1945. He was next assigned to the War Department General Staff in Washington, D.C. as Chief of the Training Branch of the Office of the Director of Intelligence. ln September, 1946, General Rogers returned to the Far East as commander of the 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. In 1948, he successively commanded the First Cavalry Brigade and the 5th Cavalry Regiment. Upon his return to the United States in July, 1949, the general was appointed Director of the Department of Intelligence at the Command and General Staff College. A year later he became a member of the Army War College faculty and was appointed its acting Deputy Commandant in March, 1952. General Rogers again went to the Far East in 1952. He was appointed Assistant Division Commander of the 40th Infantry Divi- sion in June and the following April received his appointment as Deputy Chief of the Korean Military Advisory Group. After a month's service as Deputy Chief, he was appointed Chief of the United States Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea on May 15, 1953, where he served until his return to the United States in October. Following that assignment he was ap- pointed Commanding General of the 3d Armored Division. He assumed command of the Division on January 5, 1954. General Rogers was promoted to his present rank August 1, 1953, ln addition to the Distinguished Service Cross with Cluster, he holds the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Commendation Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster, Combat lnfantryman Badge, Distinguished Unit Badge, Taeguk with Silver Star, and the Republic of Korea Presidential Citation.

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HEADQUARTERS SD ARMORED DIVISION Office of the Commanding General Fort Knox, Kentucky MEN OF TI-IE THIRD ARMORED DIVISION: I wish to commend you, and thank you personally, for your cheerful devotion to duty and efficient accomplishment of missions. We should all he proud to he members of this famous division. I ask your help in maintaining its illustrious traditions. In the days to come let us, by our smart soldierly hearing, professional skill, and loyai devotion to duty, strive to enhance the reputation of this fighting Spearhead Division. To those who leave us in the service of their country over the world, keep your chin up, make us proud of you, and the best of luck wherever you may serve. GORDON B. ROGERS Major General, U. S. Army Commanding

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W ' Tl H ,V A M BRIGADIER GENERAL J. R. BEISHLINE Assistant Commander COLONEL POPOWSKI, JR Chief of Staff