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Woodruff, Roscoe Barnett, Sr., MG USA(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Oskaloosa
Date of Passing Apr 24, 1975
Location of Interment Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery (VA) - San Antonio, Texas
First Captain of Cadets in the West Point Class of 1915. This was "the class the stars fell on". His classmates included Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley.
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.