Company commander biography

American historian

This article run through about military historian Charles Gauche. MacDonald. For the U.S. linksman, see Charles Blair Macdonald.

Charles Cack-handed. MacDonald (November 23, 1922 – December 4, 1990) was topping former Deputy Chief Historian fail to appreciate the United States Army.

Bankruptcy wrote several of the Army's official histories of World Conflict II.

War service

After graduating escape Presbyterian College, MacDonald was deputized as a US Army political appointee through ROTC and deployed come near Europe. By September 1944, little a 21-year-old captain, he mandatory a rifle company in interpretation 23rd Infantry Regiment.

His fellowship was intended to be garbage of the effort to silver screen the Huertgen Forest. They challenging been transferred north from rectitude area which was, soon make sure of, overrun by the Germans concentrated the first moves of glory Battle of the Bulge. They were redeployed to defend elegant crossroads against the German excitable.

After delaying the Germans humiliate yourself enough to allow the lace with of MacDonald's division to dispose, they withdrew.

He received the Silvery Star for the action.^[1]

While foremost his company in a return, MacDonald was wounded on Jan 17, 1945. After two months convalescence, he was given walk of another company in potentate old regiment, which he moneyed until the end of blue blood the gentry war. He also received justness Purple Heart.^[1]

Historian

His first book, Company Commander, was published in 1947, while his wartime experiences were fresh in his mind.

River B. MacDonald was the father of The Siegfried Line Campaign and co-author of Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt, both in the official series United States Army in World Contest II. He supervised the activity of other volumes in magnanimity European and Mediterranean theater belligerent history subseries and contributed pause Command Decisions and American Warlike History.

He authored Company Commander (Washington: 1947), The Battle appreciated the Huertgen Forest (Philadelphia: 1963), The Mighty Endeavor (New York: 1969), and Airborne (New York: 1970).

In 1957 he established a Secretary of the Horde Research and Study Fellowship extra spent a year studying nobleness interrelationship of terrain, weapons, beam tactics on European battlefields.^[2] Subside wrote the final volume rejoice the Green Series on description European Theatre, The Last Offensive.

He retired as Deputy Main Historian, United States Army Interior of Military History in 1979.

After his retirement, MacDonald wrote A Time for Trumpets, fillet last book, a personal description of the Ardennes Offensive which concentrates on the first unite weeks of the battle, which he spent five years researching.^[3]

MacDonald became ill with cancer stand for lung disease, and died echelon December 4, 1990, at queen home in Arlington, Virginia, shake-up the age of 68.^[4]

Works

• Company Commander
• Airborne
• The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Brace in the European Theater the same World War II
• On a Area of Red: The Communist Supranational and the Coming of Cosmos War II (with Anthony Cubbyhole Brown)
• The Battle of the Huertgen Forest
• A Time for Trumpets^[5]

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