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

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AIDES- CAMP CAPT WILBUR McCORMACK IST LT LINCOLN LANDIS W i ll U., ..-QT ywgggllilll ffl During World War ll General Devine was arTillery commander of The 9OTh lnTanTry Division Trom The invasion OT Normandy To The heavy TighTing in The Falaise Gap which broughT desTrucTion To The German SevenTh Army. ATTer This acTion he Took over a CombaT command oT The 7Th Armored Division and soon was given his own division, The 8Th Armored. l le remained in command oT The Thundering Herd unTil vicTory in Europe. ln l946, he organized The Universal MiliTary Training Program aT ForT Knox. The General's decoraTions include The DisTinguished Service Medal, Legion oT lvleriT, Silver STar. Bronze STar, French Legion oT I-Ionor and Croix de Guerre, and several DuTch and Czechoslovalcian awards.

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,. L1 V IVIAJDR GENERAL John M. Devine General Devine assumed command oT The 9Th Division in SepTember. I949, aTTer reTurning Trom The Ear EasT Com- mand. l-lis ThirTy-Two years oT acTive service began when General Devine, a naTive oT Providence, Rhode Island, was graduaTed Trom WesT PoinT in The class oT April, I9 I 7, as a Tield arTillery oTTicer. During The TirsT World War General Devine saw acTion as a loaTTery commander in The Third Field ArTillery. ATTer The war he earned a masTer oT science degree aT Yale UniversiTy and was insTrucTor aT The MiliTary Academy and aT The Eield ArTillery School. ln I932, he reTurned To WesT PoinT. This Time as assisTanT ProTessor in English. His miliTary schooling shows diplomas Trom The Eield ArTillery School and The STaTT College aT EorT LeavenworTh.

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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