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surf section : Jacob Devers || Alexander Patch
Mark W. Clark || Lucian K. Truscott Jr.
EDWARD H. BROOKS || John W. O'Daniel
John E. Dahlquist || William W. Eagles
Jean de Lattre || Sir Harold Alexander
George C. Marshall || Audie L. Murphy
Keith L. Ware || Lucian Adams
Russell E. Dunham || Wilburn K. Ross
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David C. Waybur || Otto Skorzeny
Hiroshi Oshima
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Edward H. Brooks - 2nd Armored - 11th Armored - VI Corps WWII
 
 

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Edward H. Brooks

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EDWARD HALE "TED" BROOKS (1893-1978)
began his military career in June 1915 as a captain with the First Cavalry of the Vermont National Guard. During World War I, he served with the 3rd Division in five major engagements. He was first a Battery Commander in the 76th Field Artillery and later assistant G-3 of the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade.

During the Meuse-Argonne campaign, he earned a Distinguished Service Cross when he "... exposed himself to heavy and accurate artillery fire directed on an ammunition train while driving a loaded ammunition truck to safety, the driver of which had been killed by enemy fire." He was in the Army of Occupation in Europe until August 1919 and was a member of the 3rd Division football team.

Brooks was chief of the statistics branch of the War Department General Staff from 1939 to 1941 where he was associated with General George C. Marshall and Secretary Stimpson. In September 1941, General Jacob L. Devers requested that Brooks be named to the staff of the new armored force being formed at Fort Knox, Kentucky as a brigadier general. In 1942 he was promoted to major general and played a major role in development of the M-7 self-propelled artillery piece and the M-8, assault gun.

From 1942 he commanded the 11th Armored Division until March 1944, when he was sent to England to take command of the 2nd Armored Division ("Hell on Wheels") and led the unit into Normandy. The division was prominent in the break-through at St. Lo and was said to be the first Allied division to enter Belgium. General Brooks was awarded a Silver Star for repeatedly attacking enemy positions along his line and for the rapid commitment of his division against the enemy.

In October 1944 he took command of VI Corps and its nearly 150,000 men. Brooks accepted the surrender of the German 19th Army two days before V-E day.

Brooks was known as "standing Eddie" for his unusual habit of standing up in his jeep as he reviewed the troops so he could better see them.

In 1949 General Brooks was promoted to lieutenant general and named assistant chief of staff for personnel (G-1). He then served as commanding general of the Second Army at Fort Meade, Maryland from 1951 until he retired from active service in 1953.

General Brooks is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.

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