US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)

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FRQM THE eammamfimy eneaal . -2 '5 4 n I i i , Maior General FRANK 0. BOWMAN Commanding General Fort Leonard Wood X Frank Otto Bowman was bom in Mesille Park, N. M., July 1896. He was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy 1 November 1918. His branch of service was the Corps of Engineers. After a course at the Engineer School at Camp Humphrey, Va., he joined the Second Engineers at Camp Travis, Texas, in 1920. The following year he returned to the Engineer School and in June 1921 he was assigne to Scholfield Barrack, Hawaii with the Third Engineers. In May 1924 he retumed for assignment to the First Engineers at Fort Dupont, Maryland and ,soon became a member of the Engineers Rifle team at Camp Perry, Ohio. When the National Matches were over for that year General Bowman was assigned to the 29th Engineers at Fort Humphrey. The following summer he was at Perry again firing for the Engineer Rifle Team. Again in 1929 he was at Perry and in the fall of that year he became Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Aubum. The summer of 1931 saw General Bowman back at Camp Perry as a member and Assistant Coach of the Engineer Rifle Team. He resumed his duties at Alabama Polytechnic Institute until May 1933 when he was named District Engineer at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. The following August he returned to Alabama Polytechnic Institute. General Bowman became assistant to the District Engineer, United States Engineers Office, Washington, D.C., with additional duty as Recorder for the Beach Erosion and Shore Protection Boards in june 1934. In August 1938 he became a Company Commander in the Fourth Engineer Battalion at Fort Bennin , Georgia and in 1940 he became Battalion Commander of that unit as well as being Engineer Officer for the Fourth Motorized Division. In 1941 Genera Bowman was named Engineer Officer of the Second Corps which moved to the European Theater of Operations in 1942. He was named Engineer of the Allied Force Headquarters, North African Theater of Operations, and when the Fifth Army was activated on 5 Janna 1943 he became the Engineer Officer. He landed in Italy in October 1943, and saw service with the Fifth Army until the war enxfiled in 1945. - After two months in the United States General Bowman went to japan where he became Engineer of the Northem Japan Seryice Command until March 1946 when he assumed command of Army Ground Forces in the Ryukus with Headquarters on Okinawa. He retumed to the United States in June to become Chief of Staff, G-4, of the Army Ground Forces at Fort Monroe, Va. In 1949 he was appointed Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander at Fort Belvoir, Va. In 1953 he went to Japan to become Engineer for Army Forces Far East. In April 1955 General Bowman became Commanding General of the 6th Armored Division and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

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