Geral James Alward Van Fleet (March 19, 1892 – September 23, 1992) was a United States Army officer who saw service during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida and graduated from the United States Military Academy. He served as a regimtal, divisional and corps commander during World War II and as the commanding geral of United States Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War.
James Van Fleet was born in the Coytesville section of Fort Lee, New Jersey. His family th moved to Florida while he was an infant, and he grew up there. Van Fleet received his high school education at the Summerlin Institute in Bartow, Florida.
After graduating from Summerlin in 1911, Van Fleet received an appointmt to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
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While he was a cadet at West Point, he was a member of the Army football team and was a standout fullback on the undefeated Army team of 1914.
Van Fleet graduated in the famous West Point Class of 1915, which included so many future gerals that it has be called the class the stars fell on (stars being the insignia of gerals).
After graduation, Van Fleet was commissioned as a second lieutant into the Infantry Branch of the United States Army. He was assigned to a company of the 3rd Infantry Regimt at Plattsburgh, New York, where he served from September 12 to October 1, 1915.
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He th served at Madison Barracks, in Sacketts Harbor, New York, until May 11, 1916. The 3rd Infantry was th transferred to Eagle Pass, Texas, for service on the Mexican border until October 8, 1917, over six months after the American try into World War I. During his time in Texas, Van Fleet was promoted twice, to first lieutant on July 1, 1916, and to captain on May 15, 1917.
Van Fleet th transferred to Fort Leavworth, Kansas, where he served as an instructor for provisional officers, October 10, 1917, to March 22, 1918; commanding Army Service Schools Detachmt No. 2, to April 6, 1918; at Kansas City, Missouri, inspecting 7th Infantry Regimt, National Guard of Missouri, April 1 to 5; at Camp Forrest, Ga., Camp Wadsworth, S. C., and Camp Mills, Long Island, commanding a company of the 16th Machine Gun Battalion, from April 10 to July 4, 1918. He received a temporary promotion to major on June 17, 1918.
Van Fleet was th shipped to France, where he commanded the 17th Machine Gun Battalion, part of the 6th Division, from September 12, 1918, to June 11, 1919. He was wounded in action in the Meuse–Argonne offsive on November 4, 1918, just sev days before the Armistice with Germany which caused hostilities to cease.
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After the war, Van Fleet was reduced to his permant rank of captain in 1922 and promoted to major in the Regular Army in December 1924. While serving as the sior officer of the University of Florida's U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program, Van Fleet also served as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team in 1923 and 1924, after assisting William G. Kline for a year.
From 1924 to 1927 he was stationed at Camp Galliard in the Panama Canal Zone where he commanded the 1st Battalion of the 42nd Infantry. This assignmt was followed by one at the Infantry School at Fort Bning, Georgia. At Fort Bning Van Fleet served as an instructor from April 1927 to September 1928 and as a studt in the Advanced Course from September 1928 to June 1929. In addition to his other duties, Van Fleet served as head coach of the post's football team. Van Fleet th returned to the University of Florida where he was the Professor of Military Scice and Tactics from July 1929 to June 1933.
From July 1933 to July 1935 he was stationed at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he served as commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Infantry and also as the post's executive officer. During this assignmt, he oversaw the construction of a duck pond in the northwest corner of the parade field.
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Unlike the majority of his fellow officers who rose to high command in the next few years, Van Fleet was unique in the sse that he never attded either the Command and Staff College or the Army War College during his military career.
Van Fleet commanded the 8th Infantry Regimt (part of the 4th Infantry Division) for three years (July 1941 to July 1944) and led it into combat in Europe in World War II, participating in the D-Day landings on Utah Beach in June 1944. On Utah Beach Van Fleet distinguished himself by outstanding combat leadership and was awarded his first Distinguished Service Cross (DSC).
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Although widely regarded by many as an outstanding officer, he was blocked from promotion because the Army Chief of Staff, Geral George C. Marshall, who had a tdcy to forget and confuse names, erroneously confused Van Fleet with a well-known alcoholic officer with a similar name. Wh Geral Dwight D. Eishower, a former West Point classmate of Van Fleet's and now the Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe, informed Marshall of his mistake, Van Fleet was soon promoted to divisional and corps command.
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Following promotion to brigadier geral in August 1944, Van Fleet became the Assistant Division Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division (July to September 1944) and th briefly commanded the 4th Infantry Division (September to October 1944) before assuming command of the 90th Tough Ombres Infantry Division (October 1944 to February 1945) and gaining a promotion to major geral in November. He gained the admiration and respect of his superiors, in particular Lieutant Geral George S. Patton, commander of the Third Army, for his command of the 90th.
After briefly commanding XXIII Corps, on 17 March 1945 Van Fleet replaced Major Geral John Millikin as commander of III Corps where Millikin served with Patton's Third Army.
Van Fleet commanded III Corps through the d of the war and the occupation of Germany until returning to the United States in February 1946.
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Van Fleet was reassigned to Governor's Island, New York, as commander of the 2nd Service Command before becoming the Deputy Commanding Geral of the 1st United States Army in June 1946. In December 1947 he wt to Frankfurt, Germany as G-3 (operations officer) of the United States European Command.
In February 1948, Van Fleet was promoted to lieutant geral and st to Greece as the head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group and executor of the Truman Doctrine. He was instrumtal in the outcome of the Greek Civil War by providing advice to the Greek governmt and 250 military advisers, as well as administering $400 million in military aid.
The ctral square in the northern Greek city of Kastoria has featured a bust of Van Fleet for many years, and was replaced with a new statue as rectly as 2007.
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On April 14, 1951, Van Fleet arrived in Korea, replacing Geral Matthew B. Ridgway as commander of the U.S. Eighth Army and United Nations forces.
In early 1951, Van Fleet proposed an amphibious landing at Wonsan, behind communist lines. The political fallout of MacArthur's removal, however, persuaded Ridgway to veto the plan.
Van Fleet played a significant role in reorganizing the Republic of Korea Army and reestablishing the Korea Military Academy (KMA), which is now considered the top military academy in the country.
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For the KMA took inspiration from his experices, and said he wished to do for the Republic of Korea (ROK) army the same as we did for the Greek divisions.
In October 1951, the ROK Army Chief of Staff proposed an academy with a four-year course modeled after West Point. They created a temporary site for this school at Jinhae-gu, and appointed three West Point graduates to oversee the program.
The Korean Military Academy is the hope of our people … We are also assured of our contribution to the new institution by firmly establishing an honourable and respectable tradition like that of your Military Academy in America— Lieutant Geral Lee Chongchan, Chief of Staff, ROK Army, to Geral J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, US Army, 5 February 1952, RG 319, Army Intelligce Project Decimal Files, 1951–52, Box 164, NA.
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The Korean Defse Ministry called Van Fleet the father of the Korean Army in 2015 for his contributions to the KMA and elsewhere.
A statue of Van Fleet was erected on the KMA campus on 31 March 1960 to honor his contributions towards the academy.
Van Fleet commanded the 8th Army until February 11, 1953, wh he was relieved by Geral Maxwell Taylor. Before he left Korea, during a January 29, 1953 speech on the steps of the Korean Capitol Building, Van Fleet said, I shall come back. You have made me a part of you. I know you are a part of me. I shall not ask you to give me back my heart. I leave it with you.
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Van Fleet made significant efforts to fundraise and advocate
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