Leland Hobbs Leland Stanford Hobbs ( February 4 , 1892 – March 6 , 1966 ) was a highly decorated Major General in the United States Army , who commanded 30th Infantry Division during the World War II . Early years . He was born on February 4 , 1892 in Gloucester , Massachusetts and was raised in New Jersey . He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York from which he graduated in June 1915 , in the same class as Dwight D . Eisenhower , Omar N . Bradley , James Van Fleet , Henry Aurand or Stafford LeRoy Irwin ( " The class the stars fell on " ) . He was subsequently commissioned a Second lieutenant of Infantry and assigned to the 12th Infantry Regiment in Nogales , Arizona . He saw there his first action in the skirmishes with the Mexican bandits during the Pancho Villa Expedition . He then saw service in California and Maryland , until he was ordered to the France during World War I with the 11th Infantry Division . However the armistice with Germany was signed before the division could saw some action . Division was ordered back to the United States and then disbanded at Camp Meade , Maryland . Hobbs was then assigned at United States Military Academy at West Point , New York , where he served as an Assistant instructor of tactics until the 1924 . In the interwar era , Hobbs served on the various assignments and also attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas or Army War College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania . In 1935 , Hobbs was appointed quartermaster in the Fourth Corps area and in 1937 , he was appointed a Chief of Staff of the Third U . S . Army under the command of Lieutenant general Stanley D . Embick . At the beginning of the 1940 , Hobbs was transferred to the Washington , D . C . , where he was appointed an Executive officer of the 3rd Infantry Regiment . He served in this capacity for a brief time and after his promotion to the temporary rank of Colonel , he was made a Commander of the regiment . World War II . With the United States entry into the World War II , Hobbs served as a chief of staff of the Trinidad Base Command at Fort Read . In July 1942 , Hobbs was appointed a commanding general of the 30th Infantry Division stationed at Camp Blanding , Florida . Hobbs succeeded general William Hood Simpson , who was appointed commander of XII Corps . In November 1943 , Hobbs was transferred together with his division to Camp Atterbury , Indiana , where it continue in training for its deploying within European Theater of Operations . The 30th Infantry division arrived in England on February 22 , 1944 , and trained until June of that year . General Hobbs landed on the Omaha Beach with his division on June 11 and secured the Vire - et - Taute Canal , crossed the Vire River , July 7 , and , beginning on July 25 spearheaded the St . Lô break - through . Hobbs subsequently commanded the 30th Infantry Division until the end of World War II . Hobbs commanded the division during the Battle of Normandy , Mortain Counter - offensive , Battle of the Bulge or Battle of Aachen . He was succeeded by major general Albert C . Smith in September 1945 . Major general Hobbs was highly decorated for his leadership of the 30th Division during the World War II ( see his ribbon bar below ) . Postwar Life and Retirement . Hobbs was then transferred back to the United States , where he was appointed a Commanding General of Fort Dix , New Jersey . He served in this capacity until October 1946 , when he was assigned to the 2nd Armored Division as its commanding general . He succeeded in command his West Point classmate , major general John W . Leonard . In August 1947 , he was transferred to Fort McPherson , Georgia , where he was appointed the Deputy Commanding General of the Third United States Army under the command of lieutenant general Alvan C . Gillem . At the beginning of 1949 , he was transferred to Japan , where he took command of the IX Corps at Camp Sendai . Hobbs performed the regular occupation duties with his unit until August 1950 , when he was replaced by general Frank W . Milburn . His last military assignment was a Deputy Commanding general of the First United States Army , stationed at Fort Jay , Governors Island , New York under the command of lieutenant general Willis D . Crittenberger . He retired from the army in 1953 and became vice president of the Colonial Trust Bank in New York City . Major General Leland Stanford Hobbs died on March 6 , 1966 at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington , D . C . and was buried together with his wife Lucy Davis Hobbs ( 1892 - 1980 ) at Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia . Decorations . Here is Major general Hobbs´s ribbon bar :