The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Thomas Sherman Timberman

Timberman, Thomas Sherman

Major-General

* 21st of March 1900

† 2nd of August 1989

(Regular Army)

Promotions

1942-01-06 Lieutenant-Colonel (Army of the United States)
1942-06-29 Colonel (Army of the United States)
1944-01-18 Brigadier-General (Army of the United States)
1946-06-12 Lieutenant-Colonel
1948-03-11 Colonel

Service

1941-10-XX 1942-01-XX Instructor at the Infantry School
1942-02-21 1942-03-08 Chief of China-India Section, Theater (Operations) Group, War Plans Division, War Department General Staff
1942-03-08 1942-04-27 Chief of China-India Section, Theater (Operations) Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
1942-04-27 1944-02-03 Chief of Asiatic Section, Theater (Operations) Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staf
1944-02-03 1944-05-20 Chief of US Commanding General's Liaison Staff, South-East Asia Command
1944-09-04 1944-10-21 Chief of Staff, Z Force [China]
1944-12-03 1945-09-18 Chief of US Commanding General's Liaison Staff, South-East Asia Command
1944-12-XX 1946-03-XX Commanding General US Forces South-East Asia Command
1946-03-XX 1947-09-12 Commanding General US Peiping Headquarters [China]
1947-10-XX Chief of Operations Division, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), General Staff US Army
1949-XX-XX Chief of Operations Group, Plans & Operation Division, Department of the Army
1951-07-XX 1952-12-XX Commanding General 1st Infantry Division
1953-01-03 1954-08-04 Commanding General US Sector Berlin [Germany]
1954-XX-XX 1956-XX-XX Commanding General 2nd Infantry Division
1956-XX-XX 1958-XX-XX Army Member of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1958-07-16 1960-03-31 Chief of the Army Security Agency
1960-04-XX Retired
Picture source: From: "Assembly, November 1990" by United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates.