Cl ROMANCE - T. Sgt. John T. Potter of Austin. Texas
(left) and VVAC Pvt. Marjorie English of Oneida, N. Y., were
principals in first all GI marriage at the AAF Redistribution Sta*
tion in Atlantic City. Potter has served abroad.
GEN. ROBINSON
COMMANDER OF
FT. RICHARDSON
HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — Brig. Gen.
John N. Robinson, a veteran of
nearly three years of service in
Alaska, has been named post
commander at Fort Richardson,
succeeding Brig. Gen. S. D.
Downs, Jr., it was announced re- j
cently at Alaskan Department
headquarters.
In the fall of 1941 General
Robinson, then a colonel, com
manded the 201st Infantry regi
ment when it came to Alaska,
and his outfit was quartered in
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tents that first winter on Kodiak
Island. He later was stationed on
Amchitka and, after Allied forc
es occupied Kiska, became com
mander of U. S. troops on that
island .
A graduate of the famous Class
of '15 at West Point, which has
produced more than 30 generals,
including General Eisenhower
and Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley. Gen.
Robinson served on the Mexican
border in 1917 and was a major
at the end of World War I.
Staying with the army after j
the war .he served at Fort Bliss, ]
Tex., Fort Douglas, Utah, Camp
Funston, Kan., Fort Sheridan, 111., 1
Fort Riley. Kan., Fort Crook.
Neb.. Fort Sam Houston, Tex., :
and Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Ind. He was in China with the !
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storied 15th Infantry, headquar
tered at Tientsin, from 1950-21.
There he developed a taste for
Chinese cooking and an immense
respect for the Chinese, both as
soldiers and as a people.
A graduate of the Command
and' General Staff School, the In
fantry School, advanced course,
and the Chemical Warfare
School, line and staff officers’
course, General Robinson later
served in several capacities as a
military instructor.
He was professor of Military
Science and Tactics at the Uni
versity of Arkansas from 1938-40,;
and before that had served as an
instructor at Pennsylvania Mil -
tary College and the Infantry
School at Fort Benning, Ga.
General Robinson’s family lives
at South Haven, Mich., where be
was born and reared. His elder
son. Jack, graduated from West
Pqint last June and is now a P-3^
pilot. A daughter, Mary Ellen, i?
a technic: an in a Fort Custer.
Mich., laboratory. His other two
children, Jean and Bob, are still
in school in Michigan. Lt, Col.
Nicholas J. Robinson, quarter
master for the 11th Air Force
Service Command and stationed
at Elmendorf Field, is General
Robinson’s brother.
General Downs, who came to
Alaska with the 81st Field Artil
lery Battalion, has been com
mander of Fort Richardson since
Sept. 4, 1943.
The American’s Creed was
written in 1917 by William Tyler
Page, clerk of the U. S. House of
Representatives. It was accepted
on behalf of the American people
by the House the next year.
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other textile fiber.
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