Throwback Thursday 15 OCT 2020 GRADUATING EXERCISES-CLASS 1920

Major General James W McAndrew addressing students. General Staff College, Washington Barracks, D.C

 

Major General James W McAndrew

Major General James W McAndrew (U.S.M.A., 1888) was commandant of the General Staff College at Washington Barracks, Washington, D.C. As a captain, he had been an honor student at the School of the Line (A college was established in 1881 by William Tecumseh Sherman as the School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry – later simply the Infantry and Cavalry School-,a training school for infantry and cavalry officers. In 1907 it changed its title to the School of the Line. The curriculum expanded throughout World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and continues to adapt to include lessons learned from current conflicts) in 1909-10 when George C Marshall was an instructor. He traveled to France in 1917 as a colonel assigned to the First Division’s Eighteenth Infantry. Later he was promoted to major general; and he established and was made commandant of the A.E.F.’s General Staff School at Langres, France. In May 1918, he replaced James G. Harbord as General John J. Pershing’s chief of staff. In 1919 he returned to the United States and to the General Staff College.

In the Company of Generals:

The World War I Diary of

Pierpont L. Stackpole 

Hardcover – November 1, 2009

 

OVER 200 HISTORICAL IMAGES, MAPS & ILLUSTRATIONS

The book, Images of America – Fort Lesley J. McNair contains over two hundred historical photographs, images, and illustrations that chronicle the two hundred plus years of history among the acres of this US Army Post.

The book “Images of America – Fort Lesley J McNair”  is “a walk down memory lane” as one reader called it after he turned the last page.  Go beyond