US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Jackson, SC)

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VACHEL D. WHATLEY LEO S, JOBE 00101101 Lieutenant Colonel Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of StaE I I . , N FRANKLIN W. PATTEN WILLIAM E. WALKUP VICTOR G. CONLEY CHARLES A, TOLIVER Major Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Cglonel G-1 G-2 G-3 G4 PHILIP C. CLAYTON E. H. COGANAUGHER M. E. LOES HAROLD F. McDONNELL H. E. RUCKER Colonel Colonel Colonel Colonel Colonel Coordinator of Post Inspector General Post Quartermaster Judge-Advocate Post Comptroller and Tr ' ' ff ' aininb Officer Activities

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FRANK C. McCONNELL Brigadier General, U. S. Army Assistant Division Commander A native of Cicero, Indiana, Frank C. iMcConnell was graduated from Purdue University and served in the Student ,Army Training Corps in 19118. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Regular Army as a coast artilleryman in 1921. ' Subsequent service followed at Fort Hancock, Fort Tilden and in July 1925 he joined the 92d Coast Artillery CPhilippine Scouts? at Fort Mills, Corregidor, P. I. After schooling at Fort Monroe in 1929 he was transferred to Hawaii where as battery commander his unit won the Knox iTrophy for excellence in gunnery. 3 In 1936 he was a student at the Com- mand and General Staff School and fol- lowing graduation he was assigned to Fort Randolph in Panama. He later became an instructor with the Illinois National Guard and duty at Fort Bliss followed. He became executive officer of a coast artil- lery brigade of anti-aircraft weapons fol- lowing the Pearl Harbor bombing. At the request of the War Department he visited all AAA installations in Hawaii on a special mission in 1942 and sub- sequently served as chief of staff, Head- quarters Anti-Aircraft Command at Rich- mond, and later as Commanding General, Anti-Aircraft Command, Army Ground Forces. In 1945 he was ordered to the Headquarters, European Theater of Op- erations, to assist in inaugurating a pro- gram of redeployment training. Assump- tion of command of the 32nd AAA Bri- gade, then on Leyte, P. I., followed and in August, 1945 he had the additional duties of Staff and later Deputy Com- mander of the Southern Islands Area Command which had the mission of ac- complishing the surrender of all Japanese within that area. On 31 May, 1946, he was detailed as Deputy Com- mander and Chief of Staff to the newly created Philippine Ground Forces Command, in addition to retaining com- mand of the 32nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade. This headquarters assumed Command of all Ground Force Troops in the Philippines on 1 June, 1946, including the 86th Infantry Division and 12th and 14th Infantry Divisions CPSD. Its principal mission was organization and training of the units comprising the Philippine Scouts authorized by Congress. On 26 May 1947, General McConnell was transferred to Headquarters, Eight Army in Japan, following inactiva- tion of the 32nd AAA Brigade and Philippine Ground Force Command. Reporting for duty in Yokohama on June 8, 1947, he was assigned to Command the 2d Transportation 'Major' Port effective K9 'June f 194iI.W'IfIeWferr1ai4ne'd' on thisi' ' it .duty until the Unit was ,re-designatedjas 2d T Medium, Port ,oh,3I'March, 1948.1 i i , ' A 9 .V ' ,. 1 p' 'V fff,eiOn 1'April 1948 he Waswtransferred -to'Headquarters 24th Infantry Division at Kokura, Kyushu, Japan, and was assigned to duty as Assistant Division Commander. In Sep- tember he was transferred to the 5th Infantry Division, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, arriving October 1948, and assigned duties as Assistant Division Commander. From February 1949 to March 1949 he was a member of the AFF Senior Inspectors, visiting training centers throughout the United States, including Air Force, Navy, WAC and Ma- rine Corps. In March 1949 he was assigned temporary duties as Deputy Director and Chief Umpire of TARHEEL Maneu- ver, Fort Bragg, Camp Mackall, North Carolina and in November 1949 he was given temporary duty as Deputy Chief Ground Umpire for Exercise HPORTREXH, the. com- bined Army-Navy-Air Force Manuever held in the Carri- bean area. ' In April 1950 he was assigned as Commanding General, 5th Infantry Division, Fort Jackson, South Carolina and 15 days later he became Commanding General of Fort Jack- son, in ,, August ,l950,, Commanding ,,., G eneral,..,..8th.,.Infant1fy. Division, F011 -Twksvn-' . it ,r,r 1 .'.. CQ ' 'General iMcConne1lL' 'hast-been -awarded, the-I-Legionfoof 'Merit', Bronze. starirmepaarwith Oak,Leaf ciuster,t-arid, Ani Medal. He. is authorized to Wearthe, followingservicejrib-. bons: World War I, American Defense, Asiatic-Pacific Theater with one bronze battle star, European-North African Theater, American Theater, World War II, Philip- pine Liberation, Philippine Independence, Occupation of Japan.

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DWIGHT W. BINGHAM Lieutenant Colonel Public Information Officer GRAY W. TOLAR Major Post Quartermaster ARTHUR M. CHESTER Major Assistant Adjutant General HARVEY G. JOHNSTON Lieutenant Colonel Special Service Officer IVAN C. WHIPPLE Lieutenant Colonel Post and Division Chaplain CLAIRE E. GROVES CAMERON W. SHULTZ, JR. Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Post Engineer Post Signal Officer ' ? MELVIN VUKSICH WALTER B. COCI-IRAN REX S. BAYLISS H. ROSS BRYAN Lieutenant General Major Major Major Adjutant General Assistant G-4 Post Transportation Officer Management Officer RAYMOND V. T. KIMBLE JOHN F. MITCHELL, JR. MAURICE L. SMITH BURNES L. FEASTER Major Major Major ' Captain Information and Education Ordnance Officer Provost Marshal Post G-2 VERDIE B. PRESLEY JOHN B. WINE WILLIAM M. KEAN Captain Captain First Lieutenant Aide-de-camp Aide-de-camp Aide-de-camp