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Slocum, LeCount, BG USA(Ret).
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BG Slocum passed away in 1993.
He commanded and trained the 89th DIVARTY from Oct 1943 - June 1944 in CONUS.
He commanded the Americal Division (23rd ID) DIVARTY from June 1944 - 1946 in several South Pacific campaigns.
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.