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Portrait of Major-General Orlando Ward

Ward, Orlando

Major-General

* 4th of November 1891

† 5th of February 1972

(Regular Army)

Promotions

1935-11-25 Lieutenant-Colonel
1940-12-23 Colonel (Army of the United States)
1941-08-05 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1942-03-10 Major-General (Army of the United States)
1942-12-01 Colonel
1948-01-24 Major-General (with rank from 05.09.1944)

Service

1935-08-19 1936-06-30 Attending the Army War College
1936-07-11 1938-01-29 Commanding Officer 1st Battalion, 83rd Field Artillery Regiment
1938-02-01 1938-06-30 Specal Assistant to chief of G-2, War Department General Staff
1938-07-01 1938-11-10 Chief of Geographic Branch, G-2 Division, War Department General Staff
1938-07-01 1938-11-10 Chief of Operations Branch, G-2 Division, War Department General Staff
1938-11-11 1939-07-01 Assistant Secretary, War Department General Staff
1939-07-03 1941-08-30 Secretary, War Department General Staff
1941-09-01 1942-02-XX Commanding Officer 1st Armored Brigade
1942-02-XX 1943-03-XX Commanding General 8th Armored Division
1942-03-XX 1943-04-XX Commanding General 1st Armored Division [North Africa]
1943-05-XX 1944-03-XX Commanding General Camp Hood, Texas
1943-06-XX 1944-01-XX Commanding General Tank Destroyer Center, Camp Hood, Texas
1944-01-12 1944-10-30 Commandant of the Field Artillery School
1944-10-31 1945-08-28 Commanding General 20th Armored Division [Northwestern Europe]
1945-08-XX 1945-10-XX Commanding General Infantry Advanced Replacement Training Center, Camp Gordon, Georgia
1945-10-XX 1946-08-XX Member of the War Dependency Board
1945-10-XX 1946-06-XX President of the Confidential Personnel Board
1946-06-07 1946-09-07 Commanding General V Corps
1946-06-07 1946-11-15 Chief of Staff, V Corps
1946-09-XX 1946-10-XX Commanding General Replacement & School Command
1946-10-XX 1949-01-XX Commanding General 6th Infantry Division [Korea]
1949-04-01 1949-06-01 Director of the Historical Division, Department of the Army
1949-06-01 1953-01-31 Chief of the Office of Military History, Department of the Army
1953-XX-XX Retired
Picture source: From: "20th Armored Division in World War II - Armor in ETO", 1946