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Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2023
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On This Day in History - August 22, 1941
August 22, 1941 #OTD Adna Romanza Chaffee Jr., officer in the United States Army, called the "Father of the Armored Force" for his role in developing the U.S. Army's tank forces. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant of Cavalry in 1906 following his graduation from the United States Military Academy. He was 31st out of 78 pupils in his class. Chaffee learned to ride on horseback from a young age, and would later receive recognition as "the Army's finest horseman". Upon his father's death in 1914, he became an Hereditary First Class Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. From 1914 to 1915, Chaffee was posted with the 7th Cavalry in the Philippines, and from 1916 to 1917 Captain Chaffee was assigned to West Point as the Senior Cavalry Instructor in the Tactical Department. When America entered World War I in April 1917, Chaffee was temporarily promoted to Major and assigned as the adjutant for the 81st Division as it organized at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. During the war, Major Chaffee served as an Assistant G3 Operations officer in the US IV Corps, and later returned to the 81st Division as the G3 during the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Promoted to the temporary rank of Colonel, he became the G3, III Corps at the end of the war, and remained with the corps for occupation duty in 1919. Following the war, he returned to his Regular Army rank of Captain of Cavalry and became an instructor at the General Staff School and the Army School of the Line at Fort Leavenworth. During the 1920s, he helped develop the armor concepts and doctrine of the future. He predicted in 1927 that mechanized armies would dominate the next war and assisted in the first program for the development of a U.S. Army armored force. The M24 Chaffee light tank is named after him. (Born: 1884), died on this day in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, aged 56 from cancer.
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