Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-28
PAYS STRIKING TRIBUTE
TO COURAGE AND SKILL
commander Of Rainbow Division
Praised, and Promotion
Is Urged.
ENTIRE RECORD is REVIEWED
Young Engineer Has Been Twice
wounded, and Wears the Dccora-
lions for Calamity OF Both Amer.
lea and France.
iBy Associated Press

WASHINGTON, December 27.-A
striking tribute to the courage and
skill of Brigadicr-Gencral Douglas
Macarthur. commanding the Eighty
fourth Brigade of the Forty-second
(Rainbow) Division. was given by Ma
jor-General Charles r. Menoher, for
mcrly in command of the division. in
= letter TO General Pershing. urging
Tor the second time the promotion OF
General Macarthur first as chief Of
stan of the division aud later as com
i, nance. OF one of it's two infantry
oruiEaaeS' ard disclosed that the young
Gincer; major of engineers when the
United states entered the war. had
Deen twice wounded. had been decor
ated by both the French and Ameri-
Try In action. and. in addition. had been
Twice recommended for the French Lee
i do not feel that | am free to as
sumo another command" General Men
oheT wrote to General Tcrshing on the
eye ,, OF MS transfer To the command OF
cordinG the services rendered by Gen
GRAZ Doug las Macarthur. These ser
Wees, rendered constantly for over a
i va, ana. IN the large part. amidst ac-
so soundly. brilliantly and Loyalty per-
formed that in recognition OF them I
see only fair epprisal Of the example
OF energy. courage aud efficiency which
General Macarthur has sent to the
Forty-secPnd Division and to our en-
IRE army in France. The contributions
made to our military establishment by
this general officer have already had
iar-rcaching effects. lie has stood for
thc actual physical command OF large
nouics OF troops in battle, not for
uay. hut Tor days duration. and I be-
lirvc has actually commanded larger
bodies OF troops in tho battle line than
any other officer in oar army with, in
cach instance. conspicuous success
SHOWS RESDJ'n<.tf,I'f N,,Sv
WHILE: on BATTLE FIELD
lie has developed. combined and ap-
piled the use OF infantry and correla ted
arms with an effect upon the enemy.
means and a resourcefulness which no
other American commander in the field
has
TIL" itcmizcd account OF General
MacArthur's services included the
statement that the Forty second pivi-
sion Sustained the full hrun,'' of In,
German drive in tho Champarnc last
July and that it was the skill and
personal supervision OF this officer
Later during the Aisnc-Marnc OMEN
sires, tho Forty second was driving
toward The. vcsic whom an incident
scrib"s as follows:
~, the end OF this phase of the
division's employment when it had la
ana WAS brought low in numbers nv
vigorous resistance to the assaults
from exceptionally powerful positions.
occurred an example OF leadership and
Ii" high qualities Of command which
! cons idcr as unique. General MacAr-
tnur, himself on the advanced lines AT
a time when tho American Frs, Army
Corps had not ordered the division 10
advance, accurately diagnosed the sit
nation as one in which the enemy had
Dut an hour before broken contact. In
advance OF orders and without DELAY
ne, with my concurrence, At an early
hour galvanized the nntirc division into
: trOlnDt
ii on tho very heels of the enemy and
gained possession Of the great massif
Of the Fo-cSt of Ncslcs."
General Mcnohcr shows that il wn.
General MacArthur's brigade which
broke the kriemhiel deposition" i'm
the iShtinE north or Nerdun with the
jacent heights.