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

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MAJOR GENERAL T. A. LANE, born in Revere, Massachu- setts, 19 November 1906 was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1928. General Lane graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1932, the Engineer School in 1933, the Air Command and Staff School in 1949 and the National War College in 1953. Prior to World War II, General Lane held various assign- ments which included serving with the Nicaragua Canal Survey from 1928 to 1931 and as an instructor in Civil Engineering and Military History at the United States Military Academy from 1955 to 1939. During World War II he served in the Omce of the Air Engineer, Headquarters Army Air Forces, Washington, D. C., until October 1943, organizing and training aviation engineer troop units to support the Army Air Forces. General Lane's next assignment took him to General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, where the General served as operations officer on the theater engineer staff in the campaigns from New Guinea to the Philippines. He entered Japan with the Occupation Forces in August 1945. Returning to the United States in 1945, General Lane served in Washington, D. C., on a joint Operations Review Board Major General T. A. LANE Commanding General convened to write amphibious doctrine for the Military Services. From 1946 to 1948 he was Engineer Instructor and Chief of the Logistics Division, Air Command and Staff School, Air Uni- versity, Maxwell Field, Alabama. From 1948 to 1950 he was District Engineer, Little Rock, Arkansas. From 1950 to 1952, General Lane was District Engineer, Okinawa. In 1952 he attended the National War College. In 1953 to 1954 he was in the office, Chief of Engineers, Wash- ington, D. C., as an assistant to the Chief of Engineers for policy planning. In july 1954 he became Engineer, Army Field Forces, Fort Monroe, Virginia. General Lane's last assignment was that of Engineer Com- missioner, District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., before he assumed command of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, 1 August 1957. General Lane attended the Army's Command Manage- ment School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in December 1957. His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Philippine Liberation Ribbon, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal and Army of Occupation Medal flapwb. .N4 ww, ,gygfi Y' 'g-np? A.: it .3 XZWY4 wa '-rgiyfbxzj, Q 5' ,-1 3.1 . W3 xsjfyl' jxjip 'W j-,E 5 g. 5. f ' 'V E, 'gi o,:15.,'cs,' 'Qyvyq ' -we 1- K5 wgtj. W, A 3 5-.k,'-!',,' A 'X ,gyfrx 5?.i2t....-:Wx.a.l5fE93'ffm.l.?,T2fz,'.ffs1, is ,.i,z 1. ' 1, ai' 'ff-3 - atAff!-Nitrns53101shifts4??SvA9??j?5f1lubr?-6.5-??1,f3'a.af'1fzabt- s??'f-f-fi'-at-1 c'i?s?t..1ft1fi..t..If'f:?'f-'ities-15.5. f?iP'ts,1'fa-. I: