Albert Coady Wedemeyer

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General '''Albert Coady Wedemeyer''' (1897–1989) * born July 9, 1897, Omaha, Neb., U.S. * 1919 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. * 1941 temporary Lieutenant Colonel at the outbreak of World War II * 1941 -1943 Staff officer in the war-plans division of the U.S. War Department. He was the chief author 1941 Victory Program which advocated the defeat of the German armies on the European continent. When the U.S. entered the war this plan was adoped and expanded. He helped plan Normandy Campaign. * 1943 Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten the supreme allied commander of the South East Asia Command (SEAC) in the South-East Asian Theatre . * 1944-1946 Chief of staff to General Chiang Kai-shek and commander of US forces in China under the command SEAC. ''The China Burma India Theatre assigned to Joseph Stilwell was split in two with command of the Burma-India theatre going to General Daniel Sultan.'' * 1948 As the Army Chief of Plans and Operations, he supported Clay's intetention to create an airbridge during the Berlin Crisis. His expertise in this area was considerable as he had been US Army theater commander in China during World War II and had been supplied by air "over the Hump" from India by Army transport planes. (This operation had been commanded by Lieutenant General William H. Tunner, who was later named to head the Berlin Airlift operation.) * 1951 He retired * 1954 promoted to general. * died Dec. 17, 1989, Ft. Belvoir, Va. ==See Also== His son Albert Dunbar Wedemeyer, Captain, United States Army and a Central Intelligence Agency Operative. ==External links== * Arlington Cemetery biography * photo * Berlin Airlift * concise.britannica biography