US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Polk, LA)

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JOHN M. FINN Brigadier General, U. S. 'Army Deputy Commanding General Brigadier General John M. Finn was born 31 August, 1913 at McCoy, Oregon. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, on 14 June, 1938, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry in the Regular Army. He was first assigned to the 23d Infantry, 2d Division at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. In August, 1940 he was reassigned to the newly formed 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California. Starting as a Company Commander in the 32d Infantry Regiment, General Finn was to advance through normal Command and Staii' assigmnents to com- mand the Regiment through two major Pacific engagements. He left the Regiment on occupation duty in Korea in May, 1946. His only break in nearly six years duty with the 32d Infantry Regi- ment was a three months special duty tour as a student in the Infantry Battalion Commanders and Staff Officers Course at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1952. While serving with the 7th Infantry Division, General Finn participated in the Aleutian Cam- paign CAttuJ, the Eastern Mandates Campaign fKwajaleinJ, the South Philippine Campaign CLeyteJ, and the Ryukyu Islands Campaign COki- nawaj. After World War II the 7th Infantry Di- vision was transferred to Korea from Okinawa and General Finn continued to serve as Regi- mental Commander, 32d Infantry. General Finn returned to the United States in 1946 and was assigned as Infantry Liaison Oiiicer to the Ordnance Development and Proof Services at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. In 1948 he was assigned to the Office Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, Department of the Army, in the Mo- bilization Branch, Operations and Training Divi- sion, The Pentegon, Washington, D. C. In November, 1951, General Flinn was as- signed to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe CSHAPEJ with duty as a student in the First Class of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation Defense College, Paris, France. After com- pleting the course in May 1952 he was assigned to J-3, Allied Land Forces Central Europe, Fon- tainbleau, France, as Operations and Training Oiiicer. He remained in this capacity until the summer of 1953 when he returned to the United States to attend the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Following his graduation in 1954, he was assigned to Headquarters, 6th U. S. Army, Presidio of San Francisco, California. Here he served in the G-1 Section as Chief of Military Personnel and as Executive Oflicer to the G-1. In 1955 General Finn was assigned to the Mili- tary Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam, as Ad- visor to the Secretary of Defense, Vietnam. After twenty-six months in Saigon, the capital of this newly free nation, he returned to the United States in 1957 and was assigned as Chief of Staff, 9th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado. General Finn arrived at Fort Polk in June 1962 where he first served as Commanding Gen- eral of the Post and the Training Command prior to assuming his present duties as Deputy Com- manding General.

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