Major General Bruce Palmer.

Major General Bruce Palmer.

Portraits.; Palmer, Bruce -- 1913-2000.; Military service.;

Seoul, Korea. He was promoted to permanent colonel, June 1961, and temporary major general, May 1962; was chief of staff of the Eighth United States Army, Korea, 1962--1963; was assistant deputy chief of staff for plans and operations, 1963--1964, and deputy chief of staff for military operations, 1964--1965; was promoted to permanent brigadier general, February 1963. He was commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, 1965--1967, and concurrently commander of Task Force 120 and United States Land Forces, Dominican Republic, May 1965, and commander of United States Forces and Army Forces and deputy commander of the Inter-American Peace Force in operations in the Dominican Republic, May 1965--January 1966. He was commander of the II Field Force, Vietnam, and deputy commander of the United States Army, Vietnam, 1967--1968; was promoted to temporary general, August 1968, and served as vice chief of staff of the United States Army, August 1, 1968--June 30, 1972; was acting Chief of Staff of the United States Army July 1--October 11, 1972; provided managerial continuity at the top of the Army during the Westmoreland-Abrams interregnum, supervised the continuing drawdown of Army forces from Vietnam and related Army-wide readjustments, and prepared major revisions in Army organizational structure; resumed duties as vice chief of staff; was commander in chief of the United States Readiness Command, 1973--1974; and retired from the Army, September 1974. He wrote two books in his retirement, The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam and Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965. He was awarded: five Army Distinguished Service Medals, an Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal and National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. His father Bruce Palmer Sr. was an Army brigadier general, and his paternal grandfather George H. Palmer received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War.

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