Evening star., 1942-05-20
Promotions
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Of the Congressional Medal Of
honor, who was nominated q briga-
dier general. A native OF Hender-
sonville, S. c., he also has the Army's
Distinguished Service Medal, the
Silver Star and Purple Heart dec
orationS.
Brig. Gen Robert Olds. whose per-
manent address is now Washington,
was nominated for the rank Of
major general. He was assigned as
chief of the Air Corps Ferrying
Command on May %, 194l, when
1t was created to fly aircraft to
Great Britain from factories in this
country. He held that position until
March 27 when he was assigned to
the Sd Air Force at Tampa, Fla
Gen. Olds is one of the Army's
crack command pilots and OBJ
servers, having been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross as COM
mander of the Buenos Aires flight
in 1888.
Other newly nominated brigadier
generals from Washington are JOS
eph D. Patch. commander of Amer
ican forces in New Caledonia; AL
bert E Brown, William M. Grimes
Frank c. Mohin and J. Lawton Col
lins.
Colonels from this area nominated
for brigadier generals are Leland s.
Hobbs. infantry; Thomas D. Finley,
infantry; James F. Birmingham,
field artillery; Guy I. Rowe, Quar-
termaster Corps; George w. Griner,
jr.. infantry; James A. Pickering
field artillery. and Roswell E.
Hardy, ordnance.
Col. Stonewall Jackson, infantry
another oficer on the promotion list
was an r. o. T. c. instructor at
Georgetown University several years
ago.
For the Navy. the President NOM
mated Capt. Charles A. Blackwood
jr- and Capt. Marc A. Mitscher to
be rear admirals.
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Brigadiers to Be Maj jor Generals.
Henry Lawrence Cullen Jones,
field artillery: William Henry Harri-
son Morris. jr, infantry; Durward
Saunders Wilson, infantry; Rapp
Brush, infantry; John Emmitt
Sloan. field artillery; william Han
son Gill, infantry; Harry Lewis
Twaddle, infantry; Homer Ray Old
field, Coast Artillery Corps; Harold
Roe Bull, infantry.
Colonies to Be Brigadiers.
Thoburn Kaye Brown, cavalry
Lucian King Trscott, jr., cavalry;
Cliff Andrus, field artillery; Paul
Everton Peabody, infantry; Gilbert
Richard Cook. infantry; Hayes Ad-
lai Kroner, infantry: Lloyd David
son Brown, infantry; Alfred Jeffer-
son Lyon, Air Corps; Robert Lily
Spragins, infantry: Horace Logan
Mcbride, field artillery; Barnwell
Rhett Legge, infantry: Roland Paget
Shugg, field artillery: Ward Hale
Maris. field artillery; Roderick Ran
dom Allen, cavalry; John Matthew
Devine, field artillery; Arthur Nc
Kinley Harper, field artillery; War
rem Thomas Hannum, Corps of En-
gineers; Royden Eugene Beebe, in
fantry; Louis Albert Kunzig, infan-
try: Milton Baldridge Halsey, in
fantry; James Washington Bar
nett. cavalry; Randolph Tucker
Pendleton, Coast Artillery Corps
Idwal Hubert Edwards, Air Corps
Leland Wilbur Miller, Air Corps
Thomas James Hanley, jr.. Air Corps
Thomas Henry Green, Judge Ad-
vocate Generals Department; Royal
Reynolds, Medical Corps; Omar
Heinrich Quade, Medical Corps:
Charles Egbert Branshaw, Air
Corps; Thomas Bernard Larkin,
Corps Of Engineers: Leonard Rus
sell Boyd. infantry: Donald Arm
strong, Ordnance Department; Cor
don Marshall Wells, ordnance; John
Kay Christmas. ordnance; Edward
Arthur Evans, Coast Artillery Corps;
Kenneth Buchanan, cavalry, Ma
tional Guard; Albert Edward Col
burn, Coast Artillery Corps.