Clyde D. Eddleman

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General Clyde D. Eddleman

Clyde Davis Eddleman (born January 17, 1902 in Orange , California , † August 19, 1992 in Washington, DC ) was an American general in the US Army , who between 1960 and 1962 was Vice Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the Army ) .

Life

Military training and World War II

Clyde Eddleman, son of William Henry Eddleman and Janie Brown Tureman Eddleman, attended Lake Charles High School in Lake Charles and then began military training at the US Military Academy at West Point , which he graduated in 1924. At the same time he was promoted to lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) and transferred to the infantry. In the years that followed, he worked as an officer in the US Army and graduated from various military schools. He served between November 29, 1941 and May 31, 1942 as head of the training department of the Third US Army ( Third US Army ) . After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the associated entry of the USA into World War II on December 8, 1941, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel on December 24, 1941 and was assistant from June 1, 1942 to January 25, 1943 Chief of Staff (Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3)) of the Third US Army, where he was awarded the brevet rank of Colonel on July 9, 1942.

Then he was between 26 January 1943 and the 30 November 1945 of assistive Chief of Staff (Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3)) of the Sixth US Army ( Sixth US Army ) , with whom he in combat operations in Guinea , on the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines participated. During this time he was awarded the Brevet rank as Brigadier General on November 12, 1944 and was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal , the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit for the first time in 1946 .

General and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

After the end of World War II, Eddleman was a member of the Joint Operations Review Board between January 4 and June 28, 1946 and served as Assistant Commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College from June 29, 1946 to April 15, 1949 ( AFSC) in Norfolk , where he in this application on 12 June 1948 Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel) and on June 10, 1948 Colonel (Colonel) was promoted. He was then between June 9, 1949 and August 5, 1952 in personal union commander of the US troops in Trieste and at the same time director general for civil affairs of the Allied Military Administration of the Free Territory of Trieste . He then acted from August 5, 1952 to March 31, 1954 as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations (G-3) and from 1954 to 1955 as commander of the 4 stationed in Frankfurt am Main . Infantry Division ( 4th Infantry Division ) , the so-called "iron horse" before it until 10 October 1955 commander of the May 27 US Army War College in Carlisle was. He was then from October 10 to December 31, 1955 Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning (Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans) and between January 3, 1956 and May 31, 1958, Deputy Chief of the Army Staff for Operations (Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations) .

On July 1, 1958 Lieutenant General sparked Eddleman General Henry I. Hodes as Commanding General of the Seventh US Army ( Seventuh US Army ) and was followed on April 1, 1959 and his successor as commander of US ground forces in Europe (US Army Europe ) . In this post he remained until October 20, 1960, whereupon Lieutenant General Bruce C. Clarke succeeded him. Most recently, he took over on 1 November 1960 as the successor of General George Decker the post of Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) and had this until his retirement on 31 March 1962 after which General Barksdale Hamlett succeeded him. For his services in this service he was honored on April 10, 1962 for the second time with the Army Distinguished Service Medal.

After retiring from active military service, Eddleman was Vice President of Universal Match Corporation from 1962 to 1966 and then director and representative of that company. He was also a board member from 1962 to 1980 and from 1980 to 1982 of the Army and Air Force Mutual Aid Association (AAFMAA), an association that supports members of the Army and Air Force.

His marriage to Lorraine Eddleman had sons Clyde Davis Eddleman, Jr., who died in 1929 at the age of two, and John Heath Eddleman. After his death he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery .

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Eddleman, Clyde D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eddleman, Clyde Davis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, general in the US Army
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange , California
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1992
Place of death Washington, DC