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In 1945 he was promoted to lieutenant general, the first Quartermaster Officer to attain this rank. As Quartermaster General during World War II, he oversaw the development, procurement and distribution of billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies. Gregory also supervised the training of thousands of quartermaster soldiers.
During World War II, he served as the quartermaster-general from 1941 to 1944 and was promoted to General of the Artillery on 1 August 1943. On 24 July 1939, he drew up regulations that allowed German soldiers to take hostages from civilian populations and execute them in response to resistance. [ 1 ]
In 1945 he was promoted to Lieutenant General, the first Quartermaster Officer to attain this rank. As Quartermaster General during World War II, he oversaw the development, procurement and distribution of billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies. Gregory also supervised the training of thousands of quartermaster soldiers.
In March 1944, Eisenhower and Lee raised a requirement for 4,259,000 ETO jackets, of which 300,000 would be manufactured in the UK. The ETO quartermaster, Major General Robert McG. Littlejohn, met with Major General Lucius D. Clay at Army Service Forces headquarters. The British wool used in the ETO design was unobtainable in the United States ...
Williams served in this capacity throughout World War II and finally was relieved by Major General William P. T. Hill on February 1, 1944. For his service as quartermaster of the Marine Corps, he was decorated with the Legion of Merit by the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox. [5] [6]
The Coast Guard used a quartermaster rating until the summer of 2003, when the rating was merged into the boatswain's mate rating. [4] The Coast Guard's quartermasters had the same duties as the Navy's, with the exception that—at some point after World War II—the Coast Guard folded the duties of its signalman rating into the quartermaster ...
On February 1, 1946, he became Quartermaster General of the US Army, serving in this position until March 20, 1949. [1] He retired with grade of lieutenant general in 1952. Larkin died at Walter Reed Army Hospital on October 17, 1968, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. [2]
Andrew Thomas McNamara Jr. (14 May 1905 – 6 April 2002) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army who served in World War II.He was Quartermaster General from 1957 to 1961, and the first director of the Defense Supply Agency from 1961 to 1964.