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John C. H. Lee. John Clifford Hodges Lee (1 August 1887 – 30 August 1958) was a career US Army engineer, who rose to the rank of lieutenant general and commanded the Communications Zone (ComZ) in the European Theater of Operations during World War II . A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, with the class of ...
Apr 25, 2024 · John Clifford Hodges Lee (born August 1, 1887, Junction City, Kansas, U.S.—died August 30, 1958, York, Pennsylvania) was a U.S. Army logistics officer who oversaw the buildup of American troops and supplies in Great Britain in preparation for the Normandy Invasion (1944) during World War II. He was an early and outspoken proponent of racial ...
Apr 26, 2018 · To lead this new command, Washington appointed one of America’s best officers Brigadier General John C.H. Lee. Lee, a Kansas native and First World War combat veteran, went to Great Britain in 1942 and began assembling the massive logistical network the U.S. forces would need when they invaded Europe.
John C. H. Lee. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, with the class of 1909, Lee assisted with various domestic engineering navigation projects as well as in the Panama Canal Zone, Guam and the Philippines. During World War I, he served on the Western Front on the staff of the 82d and 89th Divisions and ...
Death and burial ground of Lee, John Clifford Hodges “Jesus Christ Himself”. Lee’s first wife Sarah died in a motor vehicle accident in 1939, and he remarried on 19-09-1945 to Eve Brookie Ellis, whom he also survived. He died in York, Pennsylvania, on 30-08-1958, aged 71, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery beside his first wife.
Lee, John Clifford, born 01-08-1887, in Junction City, Kansas, to John Clifford Ganny Hodges Lee (1864-1942). John, who had one sister, Katharine Hodges Lee. (1885–1904), graduated 12 th out of 103 graduates from the United State Military Academy, in 1909. In World War I, Lee was a colonel and chief of staff, 89 th Infantry Division, earning ...
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Jan 27, 2017 · Lieutenant General John C.H. Lee, the Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe, believed Woodson deserved the Medal of Honor and ordered the recom-mendation changed. Hervieux notes that mention of the award even reached the White House, but whether the recom-mendation reached President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was not as farsighted re-
