Wade H. Haislip

General Wade H. Haislip

Wade Hampton Haislip (born July 9, 1889 in Woodstock , Virginia , † December 23, 1971 in Washington, DC ) was an American general in the US Army , who last between 1949 and 1951 was Vice-Chief of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the Army ) .

Life

First World War and post-war period

Haislip, the third of four children of Reuben Drake Haislip and his wife Etta Heller Haislip, began military training at the US Military Academy in West Point , which he completed in 1912. After his promotion to lieutenant he found various uses in the US Army and after the USA entered the First World War he served in the General Staff of the V Corps ( V Corps ) during the occupation of Germany .

After the end of the war he found numerous other jobs in the US Army and was, among other things, an instructor at the US Military Academy and administrative assistant to the Deputy Secretary of War . On June 25, 1932 he was an instructor at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth and remained there until July 31, 1936. During this time, on August 1, 1935, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) . He was then deputy commander of the 29th Infantry Regiment between August 1, 1936 and May 31, 1938 and from June 1 to September 1, 1938 in the office of the chief of infantry, before he was between the September 1, 1938 and March 1940 worked in the Department for Budget and Legislative Planning in the Army General Staff in the War Ministry . He was then from April 23, 1940 to January 1941 head of the department for budget and legislative planning in the General Staff of the Army and received the brevet rank as a colonel on November 16, 1940 . On January 29, 1941 he was awarded the brevet rank of brigadier general, after which he was between February 19, 1941 and January 19, 1942 Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2) in the War Ministry.

Second World War

Major General Wade H. Haislip during World War II

After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the related US entry into the Second World War on December 8, 1941 acted Haislip between 20 January to 7 February 1942 briefly as deputy commander of the 4th Motorized Division ( 4th Motorized Division ) and was as such on February 1, 1942 Colonel (Colonel) transported. On March 9, 1942 he was awarded the brevet rank of major general and he was then from March 9, 1942 to February 1943 commander of the 85th Infantry Division ( 85th Infantry Division ) . In 1943 he was first awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his services .

He then acted between February 23, 1943 and his replacement by Lieutenant General Walter M. Robertson on June 2, 1945 as the commanding general of the XV operating in northwestern Europe . Corps ( XV Corps ) . During this time he was promoted to brigadier general on June 3, 1944 and was also awarded another Army Distinguished Service Medal in 1944. In August 1944 he took part with his association in the liberation of France and in the battle of the Falaise pocket (August 12-21, 1944). As the commanding general, he played a key role in Operation Undertone , which brought the Palatinate , parts of the Rhineland and the northern Alsace and Lorraine areas temporarily lost during Operation Nordwind under Allied control from March 15 to 24, 1945 . He was also involved in the Battle of Nuremberg (April 16-20, 1945). The capture of Nuremberg by units of the 7th US Army was of high symbolic value; strategically, the largely destroyed Nuremberg was not of particular importance in this phase of the war. In 1945 he was awarded a third Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit .

General and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

Lieutenant General Haislip (left) congratulates Technical Sergeant Charles H. Coolidge on being awarded the Medal of Honor on June 18, 1945

Haislip received on 15 April 1945 the brevet rank of lieutenant general and was then from June 2 to July 1945 in personal union commander of the Seventh US Army ( Seventh US Army ) and Commanding General of the Military District West Germany . After his return to the United States he was on 23 August 1945 to April 1946 Chairman of the Personnel Committee at the Secretary of War (Secretary of War) , Robert P. Patterson , and after between 15 May 1946 and the 31 May 1948 Senior Member of advisory group of the Chief of Army Staff ( Chief of Staff of the Army ) , General Dwight D. Eisenhower . During this use of his promotion to place on July 1, 1947 Major General (Major-General) . He was then from November 15, 1948 to August 22, 1949 Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration (US Army) .

Last Haislip was born on August 23, 1949 successor to General J. Lawton Collins as Vice Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) and Deputy General Collins, who is now Chief of Staff of the United States Army was. He was promoted to general on October 1, 1949 and retired on July 31, 1951, after which General John E. Hull became the new Vice Chief of Staff of the Army . After retiring from active service, he was governor of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, DC between 1951 and 1966 and was honored for the fourth time with the Army Distinguished Service Medal in 1966.

Haislip, who was married to Alice Junnings Shepherd Haislip, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery after his death .

Awards

Selection of awards, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

•   Army Distinguished Service Medal (4 ×)
•   Legion of Merit
•   Bronze Star (2 ×)

Web links

• Entry in generals.dk
• Entry in the Hall of Valor

• Wade H. Haislip in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Raymond Cartier : The Second World War , Volume III, Munich 1967, pp. 994, 1008 f.