ScottG Posted September 19, 2021 Share #26 Posted September 19, 2021 Robert E. Lee and two of his Sons, George Washington Custis Lee and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee. All three Confederate Generals. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottG Posted September 19, 2021 Share #27 Posted September 19, 2021 LTG Simon Bolivar Buckner CSA and his Son LTG Simon Bolivar Buckner who was killed on Okinawa. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskjl Posted September 19, 2021 Share #28 Posted September 19, 2021 Admirals "Abbot" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share #29 Posted November 11, 2021 And this just found, Three Generations of Generals. Bernard J. D. Irwin MOH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_J._D._Irwin His Son, George LeRoy Irwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_LeRoy_Irwin And his Grandson, Stafford LeRoy Irwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_LeRoy_Irwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 18, 2021 Author Share #30 Posted November 18, 2021 Just now seen these two. Clare Hibbs Armstrong He was in The Point. The Class The Stars Fell On. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Hibbs_Armstrong DeWitt Clinton Armstrong III https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/12/11/army-gen-dewitt-c-armstrong-dies-at-80/95842bf9-7a71-47d3-8c4b-b0695c156030/ https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/99140 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share #31 Posted December 30, 2021 Another discovery. Ralph E. Truman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_E._Truman And his Son, .Louis W. Truman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_W._Truman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manchu Warrior Posted December 30, 2021 Share #32 Posted December 30, 2021 Maj. Gen. Leo Brooks Sr. (Father) Brig. Gen. Leo Brooks Jr.(son) Gen. Vincent Brooks (son) (My Battalion CO 9th Infantry ROK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share #33 Posted December 31, 2021 22 hours ago, Manchu Warrior said: Maj. Gen. Leo Brooks Sr. (Father) Brig. Gen. Leo Brooks Jr.(son) Gen. Vincent Brooks (son) (My Battalion CO 9th Infantry ROK) Good addition Manchu, another Three Generations of Generals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manchu Warrior Posted December 31, 2021 Share #34 Posted December 31, 2021 2 hours ago, patches said: Good addition Manchu, another Three Generations of Generals. I believe it is only two generations because Leo Jr. and Vincent are actually brothers, so just two isn't it? As far as Gen. Vincent Brooks is concerned he was a squared away Battalion Commander. We were in a mechanized infantry unit at Camp Casey and I was on a BFV crew and he spent a good bit of time in the motor pool with his Grunts. Even the times when I did Battalion CQ he was always decent to his lower enlisted soldiers. If I'm not mistaken I am pretty sure that he has a 9th Infantry Manchu Unit Crest pinned on his uniform in the photo. I know that was allowed when the soldier still had an association with a particular unit but, I don't recall the details. With that said I assume his time commanding the 9th Regiment was important to him and I can honestly say that I was proud to have served under his command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share #35 Posted June 16, 2022 John G. Hill Sr https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/11/06/gen-john-g-hill-80-dies-combat-veteran-of-3-wars/7e8a1e46-7b36-4325-bf78-25e323e3e2a8/ And his Son John G. Hill Jr. The only photo I could find of him so far is this 1972 photo of him off his Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Hill_Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 5, 2022 Author Share #36 Posted August 5, 2022 William B. Caldwell III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Caldwell_III And his Son William B. Caldwell IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Caldwell_IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share #37 Posted November 30, 2022 One Lutz Wahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Wahl And he son, George Wahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Douglas_Wahl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdogchristy90 Posted November 30, 2022 Share #38 Posted November 30, 2022 Not sure if this would count so correct me if I misunderstood the rules... Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman and his son Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman. James was a highly distinguished Navy Officer and his son James started off by founding the UDTs (Underwater Demolition Teams) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share #39 Posted December 1, 2022 17 hours ago, tdogchristy90 said: Not sure if this would count so correct me if I misunderstood the rules... Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman and his son Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman. James was a highly distinguished Navy Officer and his son James started off by founding the UDTs (Underwater Demolition Teams) Yes, Father was a admiral and his son went on to be an admirial too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdogchristy90 Posted December 1, 2022 Share #40 Posted December 1, 2022 1 minute ago, patches said: Yes, Father was a admiral and his son went on to be an admirial too. Picked up a book called Into Enemy Waters to read over Thanksgiving. Talked all about Kauffman and UDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share #41 Posted December 1, 2022 Willis D. Crittenberger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_D._Crittenberger#Family Willis D. Crittenberger Jr, his son, one of them, rises to General. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share #42 Posted December 1, 2022 Willis D. Crittenberger, who passed in 1980 at 89 lost two Sons in Service, one an Enlistedman, a Tank Crewman C Company 745th Tank Battalion, attached to the 1st Infantry Division. Crittenberger married Josephine Frost Woodhull (1894–1978) on June 23, 1918. Two of his three sons served in the United States Armed Forces and died in combat. Corporal Townsend Woodhull Crittenberger (born May 13, 1925) was killed in action during the Rhine River crossing on March 25, 1945 during the final days of World War II, aged just 19.[1] Colonel Dale Jackson Crittenberger (USMA 1950) (born May 27, 1927) commanding the 3rd Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War was killed in a mid-air collision on September 17, 1969 while directing combat operations, aged 42. Dale served as a White House military aide to President Eisenhower in 1959 and as a newly commissioned major received his new badge of rank from his father's old friend, the President. If Dale Jackson Crittenberger didn't die that way in Vietnam, he in all likeliness would of made General too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share #43 Posted December 1, 2022 As an aside, Blackshear M. Bryan, also lost two Sons in Service, both in Non Hostile flight incidences, one in Vietnam, the other in a 1977 training accident both West Pointers like their Father, one became Air Force Officer, though Blackshear M. Bryan passed a few months before, before his second son, the one in the Army died. Blackshear M. Bryan, Jr. or "Morrie" was born in 1929 at West Point during his father's tenure as assistant football coach. He attended the Academy, graduating with the class of 1954. He accepted a commission with the Air Force, then transferred to the United States Army in 1963. Serving in Vietnam he was cited twice for heroism during his tour. On September 22, 1967, as he was rounding out his tour in Vietnam, Major Morrie Bryan was killed in a crash of his U-21A during a training mission as he attempted to avoid trespassers on the runway. James Edward "Jamie" Bryan was born in 1940 in Washington D.C; he also died in a military aircraft accident. On September 14, 1977, at 23:48 hours, Jamie was coordinating his unit's operations from aboard an Air Force Boeing EC-135K command and control aircraft that had just taken off from Kirtland Air Force Base, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft banked right and crashed into a mountain peak in the Manzano Mountain range, killing all 20 military crew members aboard. Investigators said that fatigue may have played a part in the accident. Major Bryan had served two combat tours in Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share #44 Posted December 1, 2022 29 minutes ago, patches said: Willis D. Crittenberger, who passed in 1980 at 89 lost two Sons in Service, one an Enlistedman, a Tank Crewman C Company 745th Tank Battalion, attached to the 1st Infantry Division. Crittenberger married Josephine Frost Woodhull (1894–1978) on June 23, 1918. Two of his three sons served in the United States Armed Forces and died in combat. Corporal Townsend Woodhull Crittenberger (born May 13, 1925) was killed in action during the Rhine River crossing on March 25, 1945 during the final days of World War II, aged just 19.[1] Colonel Dale Jackson Crittenberger (USMA 1950) (born May 27, 1927) commanding the 3rd Brigade of the 9th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War was killed in a mid-air collision on September 17, 1969 while directing combat operations, aged 42. Dale served as a White House military aide to President Eisenhower in 1959 and as a newly commissioned major received his new badge of rank from his father's old friend, the President. If Dale Jackson Crittenberger didn't die that way in Vietnam, he in all likeliness would of made General too. https://www.facebook.com/barrlibrary/photos/a.117431321630446/8049677548405744/?type=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share #45 Posted January 14, 2023 Nelson A. Miles and his Son Sherman Miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share #46 Posted March 1, 2023 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham Sr and Benjamin Franklin Cheatham jr Senior was a Confederate General, Junior U.S. Army, and would be a General too, and in WWI commands the Massachusetts 104th Infantry of the 26th YANKEE Division. hmm wonder what Daddy would say LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share #47 Posted March 1, 2023 5 minutes ago, patches said: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham Sr and Benjamin Franklin Cheatham jr Senior was a Confederate General, Junior U.S. Army, and in WWI commands the Massachusetts 104th Infantry of the 26th YANKEE Division. hmm wonder what Daddy would say LOL Senior (Curiously he's not named a senior nor is his son) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Cheatham Junior https://quartermaster.army.mil/bios/previous-qm-generals/quartermaster_general_bio-cheatham.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 5, 2023 Author Share #48 Posted April 5, 2023 I would think that General Van Fleet's son would of made General like his Father, if he wasn't MIA in Korea. https://www.koreanwar.org/html/30835/korean-war-project-california-17852a-cpt-james-alward-van-fleet-jr/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 27, 2023 Author Share #49 Posted April 27, 2023 Not Father and Son or Grandfather and Grandson, but Brothers, yes two Brothers who were eventually of General Grade at the same exact time. The Gerow Brothers, Leonard and Lee. Leonard as V Corps Commander in Germany in 45. Lee as Assistant Divisional Commander 85th Infantry Division in Italy in 45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted June 24, 2023 Share #50 Posted June 24, 2023 You gave us brothers, so I'll add a name sake Uncle Major General Albert John Bowley, USAF (1921-2013) USMA Class of 1943 Last Rank: Major General Last Primary AFSC/MOS AAF MOS 1091-Pilot, B-17 Last AFSC Group: Pilot (Officer) Primary Unit: 1971-1973, Air Force Advisory Group MACV Service Years: 1943 - 1973 Major General Albert John Bowley, 91, passed away Saturday, February 23, 2013 in Melbourne, Florida. General Bowley served 30 years in the United States Air Force. He came from a long military line. Born at Fort Bragg, NC he graduated from West Point in June 1943. His father, Colonel Freeman W. Bowley, was a member of the West Point Class of 1911. General Bowley's grandfather, Freeman Sparks Bowley, was a Captain in the 30th United States Colored Infantry. His uncle, Lt General Albert Jesse Bowley, graduated from West Point in 1897 and General Bowley's two brothers, Freeman and William, were members of the West Point classes of June 1943 and 1946 respectively. ...and his Uncle Lieutenant General Albert Jesse Bowley USA (1875-1945) USMA Class of 1897 Biography Link -->> https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ajbowley.htm Quite the history of top assignments in a long career 1918 2nd Division Artillery 1931-1934 Commanding Officer Hawaiian Division And yes, the Japanese were once our allies... Senior officers of the U.S. 2nd Division at the front showing a Japanese delegation the enemy's position of the sector of the map. Brigadier General Albert J. Bowley is stood second on the left, while Marine Major General John A. Lejeune, commanding the 2nd Division, is sat third on the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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