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Sergeant Gerald O. Cable, Service Company, 126th Infantry, from Michigan. On 25 April 1942, he became the first member of the 32nd Infantry Division to die in World War II when the Liberty ship he was on was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Camp Tamborine was renamed Camp Cable in his honor.
Edwin Forrest Harding (September 18, 1886 – June 5, 1970) commanded the 32nd Infantry Division at the beginning of World War II. He graduated 74th among his classmates from the United States Military Academy in 1909, who included John C. H. Lee (12), Jacob L. Devers (39), George S. Patton (46), Horace H. Fuller (59), Robert L. Eichelberger (68), and William H. Simpson (101).
By March 31, 1945, he was serving as a private first class in Company L, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. During a Japanese counterattack on that day, on the Villa Verde Trail in Luzon , the Philippines , he voluntarily stayed behind and provided covering fire while the rest of his unit retreated.
The camp was named in honor of Corporal Gerald Cable, the first member of the 32nd Division killed by the Japanese during World War II. Cable, a member of Service Company, 126th Infantry, along with approximately twenty other men, were on board a ship transporting trucks and other equipment from Brisbane to Adelaide when a torpedo hit the ship ...
Bradley was born at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, the son of John J. Bradley, an 1891 graduate of the United States Military Academy. [2] He was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1921 from South Dakota but listed his hometown as Washington, D.C. Bradley enrolled at West Point in June 1917 and was commissioned as an infantry officer on 1 November 1918 because of World War I.
42nd Infantry Division (The 42nd Infantry Division was a reconstitution of the National Guard's 42nd Division that had fought in World War I, but was raised in the Army of the United States rather than in the National Guard) [92] [93] 14 July 1943: 24 January 1944: 106: Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins: Rhineland; Central Europe; 43rd Infantry Division
Major General Albert Whitney Waldron (January 13, 1892 – June 21, 1961) was a United States Army officer who served during World War II.He briefly replaced Major General Edwin F. Harding as the commander of the 32nd Infantry Division during the Battle of Buna–Gona and was wounded in the shoulder on 5 December 1942 after being shot by a sniper.
Burr was born on May 11, 1908, in Neenah, Wisconsin.He joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard in about 1928 and served with the 32nd Infantry Division.After the 32nd Division was federalized in 1940, he participated in training exercises with his unit until late 1941, when he was discharged for being over the 28-year age limit. [1]