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Commanding General of 89th Infantry Division from Feb 1943 to Dec 1945.
Deployed to ETO in Jan 1945. Crossed Rhine River at midnight, 22 - 23 March 1945 under intense enemy fire. Rotated to CONUS in Dec 1945.
The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.