US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Dix, NJ)

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AIDES - DE- CAMP GEORGE D. NELSO .Mu 1lV'5 .lE 'EfQ1Qq il VI Il if fviii W 171132 'Lu T LT WILLIAM M. WHITESEL

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L General Barriger assumed his presenT pOsT wiTh 9Th lnTanTry Division on 2l June I949, Tollowing his reTurn Trom The Canal Zone, where he served as Chief OT STaTT OT The U. S. Army, Caribbean. A naTive OT Shelbyville, Ky., General Barriger was graduaTed Trom The U. S. MiliTary Academy in I9l8 as a second lieuTenanT OT Cavalry. He is also a graduaTe OT The Troop oTTicer's course aT The Cavalry School and The Com- mand and General STaTT course. WiTh The OrganizaTiOn OT The Armored Force, U. S. Army, in July, 1940, General Barriger was deTailed TO General STaTT duTy and assisTed in The OrganizaTiOn OT The IsT Armored Division, laTer becoming AssisTanT ChieT OT STaTT, G-4, Tor The Armored Force, FT. Knox, Ky. ln June, I943, he was ordered To England and NOrTh ATrica wiTh a Technical mission, checking Armored Force lOgisTics under baTTle condiTiOns. While on duTy as DepuTy G-4, wiTh The IsT U. S. Army Group, General Barriger was appOinTed To The sTaTT OT The BriTish 2lsT Army Group, laTer becoming DepuTy ChieT OT STaTT, G-4, OT The I2Th Army Group under General Omar N. Bradley, now Chairman OT The JOinT ChieTs OT STaTT. When The war ended, he was G-4, FiTTeenTh Army. General Barriger wears The Legion OT lvleriT wiTh Two Oak-LeaT clusTers, The Bronze STar Medal, The French Legion OT T-lOnOr, The French Croix de Guerre, and The Order OT The BriTish Empire, as well as The FurOpean-ATrican- Middle easTern ribbon wiTh Tive baTTle sTars. BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM L BARRIGET

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Colonel Marfin reporTed To The 9Th InTanTry Division Tor duTy as ChieT oT STaTT on I5 No- vember I948 from The FiTTh Corps ArTiIIery, ForT Bragg, N. C. Born in Wisconsin, Colonel MarTin was gradu- aTed Trom U. S. MiIiTary Academy, WesT PoinT, I November I9I8 wiTh Field ArTiIIery as basic branch. He is a graduaTe oT Field Ar'IiIIery School and The Command and General STaTT School. Service in various posTs in The U. S., Hawaii and The Philippines in The Field ArTiIlery, and a Tour oT duTy as insTrucTor in maThemaTics aT WesT PoinT and aT Louisiana STaTe LIniversiTy as AssisTanT Professor oT MiIiTary Science and TacTics covered his duTy up To World War II. Colonel MarTin Took The 68Th Armored Field ArTiIIery Bn. oT The IST Armored Division To NorTh Ireland early in I94-2, Then To NorTh ATrica where he was wounded in acTion and re- Turned To The UniTed STaTes in March, I943. In May, I943, he became Division Arlillery Com- mander oT The 7Th Armored Division, remaining in This posT unTiI OcTober, l945, when The Division reTurned To The UniTed STaTes Tor deacTivaTion. DecoraTions include: Silver STar wiTh oalc IeaT cIusTer, Legion oT MeriT, Bronze STar wiTh Two oalc leaf cIusTers Purple HearT and Army CommendaTion Ribbon. Foreign decoraTions held are Croix de Cruerre IFrenchI wiTh Palm, Legion oT Honor lFrenchI and Order of The Brirish Empire. His European-ATrican Middle EasTern ribbon carries Tive baTTIe sTars. ClHEFCNiSTAFF O. W. MARTIN Colonel, GSC, CI1ieToTS'I'aTf GENERAL STAFF LT COL NORMAN R. WALKER LT COL JAMES ABBOTT LT COL LEON O. POND LT COL R. J. MOULTON ,