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John Reed Hodge was born in Golconda, Illinois, on June 12,
1893. He attended Southern Illinois Teachers College and the
University of Illinois. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant out
of OCS into the Infantry Reserve in 1917.
His career highlights include:
World War I service in France and Luxembourg during 1918 and
1919.
Promoted to Captain in July of 1920.
1921-25. Military Science professor on the faculty of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College.
1926. Graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning,
Georgia.
1926-29. Overseas service in the Pacific area, primarily in
Hawaii.
1934. Graduated from the Command and General Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth.
1935. Promoted to Major. Attended the Army War College.
1936. Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, Alabama.
1940. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.
December, 1941. Chief of Staff, VII Corps.
June, 1942. Temporary Brigadier General. Assistant Division
Commander, 25th Infantry Division, Guadalcanal.
1943. Temporary Major General. Commanding General Americal
Division, Fiji Islands.
1944. Commanding General, XXIV Corps, Central Pacific Area. 20
October: Philippines Campaign.
Spring, 1945. Assault on Okinawa. July, 1945, Temporary
Lieutenant General.
September, 1945. Concurrently as Commanding General, XXIV Corps,
and American Forces Korea.
Served in the occupation until the Republic of Korea was
established in 1948.
1948-50. Served as Commanding General, V Corps, Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
General Hodge served concurrently as the Commanding General,
Third U.S. Army, and Commanding General, Fort McPherson, Georgia,
from September 1950 to May 1952.
From 1952 to 1953 he served as the Chief of Army Field
Forces.
General Hodge retired from active duty in June 1953. He died in
Washington, D.C., on November 12, 1963.
Current Biographies, June 1945. Obit., January
1964.
Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War. New York: Random
House, 1987. pp. 159, 261.
Depuy, Trevor N., et al. The Harper Encyclopedia of
Military Biography. New York: Harper Collins, 1992. p.
340.
Hodge, John R., Lieutenant General. "Mobility in the
Field." Cavalry Journal, 60:Sept.-Oct., 1951, 20.
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol.
51. New York: James T. White Co, 1969. p. 693.
New York Times, November 13, 1963, p. 41.
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