The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Charles Tillman Jr. Harris

Harris, Charles Tillman Jr.

Major-General

* 31st of March 1884

† 24th of December 1961

(Regular Army)

Promotions

1930-10-01 Lieutenant-Colonel
1935-10-12 Colonel
1938-09-01 Brigadier-General (Assistant Chief of Ordnance)
1941-08-04 Major-General (Army of the United States)
1946-06-30 Major-General (Retired)

Service

1928-06-30 1931-XX-XX Coast Artillery Ordnance Officer, Governors Island, New York
1931-06-29 1933-04-28 Department Ordnance Officer, Panama Canal Department
1933-05-04 1937-05-01 Director of Planning Branch, Office of the Assistant Secretary of War
1937-05-03 1937-07-29 Commanding Officer Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts
1937-08-01 1938-06-27 Director of Planning Branch, Office of the Assistant Secretary of War
1938-09-01 1942-06-17 Assistant Chief of Ordnance
1938-09-01 1942-06-17 Chief of Industrial Service, Ordance Department
1942-06-18 1946-03-03 Commanding General Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
1945-09-14 1946-01-02 Member of the War Department Board on Reorganizing the War Department
1946-06-30 Retired
Picture source: From "The Ordnance Department : Procurement and Supply" by Harry C. Thomson & Lida Mayo, 2003