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

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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

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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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what The a Works, Plays and Lives ,Forti Jackson is one of the United States Army's largest military reservations, and is con- veniently situated just outside the city limits and five miles east of the business district of Columbia, the capital site of South Carolina. Columbia, a busy, progressive city, offers the soldier numerous places of interest, entertainment, education and religious Eworship. This 77,000 acre post, located in the heart of the Palmetto Ca treej State, was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, born in New Lancaster, South Caroli.na,' a major-general of the Army who ,dis- tinguished himself as a hero in 1814 at New Or- leans who later became the Nation's seventh President. This fpost, terrained with tall-pine forests and several picturesque lakes, a sportsman's paradise, was founded and opened as Camp Jackson with formal Congressional approval in June 1917. A year later, 45,000 officers and enlisted men under the banners of the 30th and the 81st Divisions Were trained here as World War I troops to be sent to Europe to bolster General Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces, After the 1918 armistice, the general demobilization of the Army took place, and in 1921 the need for the Camp as a full-time regular army garrison was past. During the period 1925-1940, it Was State-controlled as an encamp- ment area for the State National Guard troops. In 1940, the Camp, primarily designed as an In- fantry training post, reverted to federal control and became Fort Jackson, a permanent-type Army installation. On 1 July that year the Sth Infantry Division was activated here and later in the same