General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U. S. Army PDF
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General Lesley J. McNair MODERN WAR STUDIES Theodore A. Wilson General Editor Raymond Callahan J. Garry Clifford Jacob W. Kipp Allan R. Millett Carol Reardon Dennis Showalter David R. Stone Series Editors General Lesley J. McNair Unsung Architect of the US Army M T. C ARK ALHOUN © 2015 by the University Press of Kansas All rights reserved Published by the University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas 66045), which was organized by the Kansas Board of Regents and is operated and funded by Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Calhoun, Mark T. General Lesley J. McNair : unsung architect of the US Army / Mark T. Calhoun. pages cm. — (Modern war studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7006-2069-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7006-2070-8 (ebook) 1. McNair, Lesley James, 1883–1944. 2. Generals—United States—Biography. 3. United States. Army— Officers—Biography. 4. Military education—United States—History—20th century. 5. United States. Army —Officers—Training of—History—20th century. 6. Soldiers—Training of—United States—History—20th century. 7. World War, 1939–1945--United States. 8. World War, 1914–1918—Biography. 9. World War, 1939–1945—Biography. I. Title. E745.M42C45 2015 355.0092—dc23 [B] 2015002822 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data is available. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication is recycled and contains 30 percent postconsumer waste. It is acid free and meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials z39.48–1992. For Mark Taylor Calhoun Jr. Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Innovation in Peace and War 1 From Cadet to Commander: Birth of an Innovator 2 World War I 3 McNair: War Planner Part II: Interwar Education and Training 4 Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Purdue 5 The Army War College Class of 1928–1929 6 Getting Over the Hump 7 Rise to Prominence, 1935–1940 Part III: World War II: The Culmination of a Career 8 Protective Mobilization 9 Training the Army Ground Forces 10 The Army Ground Forces at War Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations Frontispiece: Brigadier General Lesley J. McNair, AEF GHQ Staff G-5 Training Division, Chief of Artillery Training and Tactical Procedures, Chaumont, France, 1919 1 Lesley J. McNair, Cadet, United States Military Academy, circa 1901 2 Captain Lesley J. McNair’s First Command—C Battery, 4th Artillery, Mexico; Punitive Expedition, 1917 3 Brigadier General Lesley J. McNair, AEF GHQ Staff G-5 Training Division, Chief of Artillery Training and Tactical Procedures, Chaumont, France, 1919 4 General Pershing Awards Brigadier General McNair the Distinguished Service Medal at AEF GHQ, Chaumont, France, March 23, 1919 5 Marshal Petain Awards Brigadier General McNair the Legion D’Honneur at Metz, Lorraine, France, April 19, 1919 6 Purdue ROTC, May 31, 1926 7 Lieutenant Colonel Lesley J. McNair, PMS&T of Purdue ROTC, with Farewell to the Corps, The Debris (Purdue Yearbook), 1928 8 Lieutenant Colonel Lesley J. McNair, Field Artillery School Assistant Commandant, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1929 9 Field Artillery School Gunnery Department, 1929 10 Lieutenant Generals Ben Lear, Lesley J. McNair, Walter Krueger, and Delos Carlton Emmons at the Third Army Maneuvers, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 1939 11 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair and Brigadier General E. F. Harding at the Carolina Maneuvers, 1941 12 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair Arriving in California to Observe Maneuvers, August 23, 1942 13 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair Visiting the Tank Destroyer Center, Camp Hood, Texas, January 1943 14 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, Commander, Army Ground Forces, March 1942 15 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair and the AGF Staff, March 19, 1942 16 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair Broadcasting at NBC, April 5, 1942 17 Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair Visiting the Tank Destroyer Center, Camp Hood, Texas, May 1944 18 Mr. and Mrs. McNair at the Premiere of Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army, August 12, 1943 19 Clare McNair Greets Lesley J. McNair at the Airport upon His Return Home from Tunisia, May 3, 1943 20 Clare and Lesley McNair Departing for Home after Lesley McNair’s Return from Tunisia, May 3, 1943 21 The Map Lieutenant General McNair Was Holding When Wounded in Tunisia, April 23, 1943 22 Lesley J. McNair’s United States Military Academy Graduation Ring, Found on the Battlefield after His Death, July 1944 23 General Lesley J. McNair’s Headstone and Grave Site in France 24 Honorable Henry L. Stimson Awarding to Clare McNair Two Oak Leaf Clusters for General McNair’s Distinguished Service Medal as General George C. Marshall Observes, The Pentagon, August 1, 1944 25 McNair Hall—Headquarters Building at Present-Day Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Home of the Field Artillery Branch
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