Bryan, Blackshear M., LTG

Deceased
 
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Final Rank
Lieutenant General
Last Service Branch
Field Artillery
Last MOS
0002-General Officer
Last MOS Group
General Officer
Primary Unit
1957-1960, 0002, First Army (1st Army)
Service Years
1922 - 1960
Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates
Cold War Certificate
Field Artillery
Lieutenant General
Four Overseas Service Bars

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Home State
Louisiana
Louisiana
Year of Birth
1900
 
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Contact Info
Home Town
Alexandria
Last Address
Silver Spring, MD
Date of Passing
Mar 02, 1977
 
Location of Interment
U.S. Military Academy West Point Post Cemetery (VLM) - West Point, New York
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Not Specified

 Official Badges 

Army Staff Identification US Army Retired (Pre-2007)


 Unofficial Badges 

Military Police Artillery Shoulder Cord Cold War Veteran


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
U.S. Military Academy West Point Post Cemetery (VLM)
  1977, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), U.S. Military Academy West Point Post Cemetery (VLM) (West Point, New York)


 Additional Information
Last Known Activity:

He was in charge of all Japanese Internment Camps and German POW Camps in CONUS during World War Two.

Served as the US Army's first permanent Provost Marshal General. He turned the Office of the Provost Marshal into a post - war organization with charge over US Army military investigations, the Military Police and the US Army MP School.  

From 1960 - 1965, he served as the first president of the Nassau Community College in Long Island, NY.

   

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 Unit Assignments
United States Military Academy West Point (Staff-USMA)Department of Command (Staff) Army War CollegeUnited States Department of WarOffice of the Provost Marshal General (OPMG)
Caribbean Defense Command24th Infantry DivisionXVI CorpsI Corps
US Army Pacific (USARPAC)First Army (1st Army)
  1925-1929, United States Military Academy West Point (Staff-USMA)
  1939-1940, Department of Command (Staff) Army War College
  1940-1942, 2615, United States Department of War
  1942-1948, 9100, Office of the Provost Marshal General (OPMG)
  1948-1951, 2010, Caribbean Defense Command
  1951-1952, 0002, 24th Infantry Division
  1952-1953, 0002, XVI Corps
  1953-1954, 0002, I Corps
  1954-1956, 0002, Office of the Commanding General, United States Military Academy
  1956-1957, 0002, US Army Pacific (USARPAC)
  1957-1960, 0002, First Army (1st Army)
 Combat and Non-Combat Operations
  1941-1945 WWII - American Theater
  1950-1950 Korean War/UN Defensive (1950)
 Colleges Attended 
Virginia Military InstituteUnited States Military Academy, West Point
  1917-1918, Virginia Military Institute
  1918-1922, United States Military Academy, West Point
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