The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Frank Needham Roberts

Roberts, Frank Needham

Major-General

* 28th of December 1897

† 23rd of December 1975

(Regular Army)

Promotions

1941-12-11 Lieutenant-Colonel (Army of the United States)
1942-07-11 Colonel (Army of the United States)
1943-07-02 Lieutenant-Colonel
1943-11-06 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1946-05-31 Termination of rank Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1948-03-11 Colonel

Service

1941-07-25 1942-02-09 Chief of China Section, Far Eastern Branch, G-2 Division, War Department General Staff
1942-02-10 1942-06-23 Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2), China-Burma-India Theater of Operations
1942-04-19 1943-09-10 Deputy Chief of Strategy & Policy Group for Ground, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1942-08-06 1943-10-26 Acting Chief of Strategy Section, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1943-09-11 1944-11-30 Chief of Strategy & Policy Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1944-11-30 1945-06-12 Chief of US Military Mission to the Soviet Union
1945-06-13 1945-09-23 War Department Representative on Far Eastern Subcommittee, State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee
1945-11-01 1946-05-26 Military Attaché to the Soviet Union
1946-06-05 1948-04-28 Military Attaché to Turkey
1948-05-20 1948-07-22 Attached to Military Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff
1948-07-31 Professor of Military Science & Tactics, University of California, Los Angeles
Chief of Staff, Allied Forces Southern Europe
Commanding General Fort MacArthur, California
Chief of California Military District
1957-11-XX Retired
Picture source: From: "Assembly, September 1977" by United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates.