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Innis P. Swift
Innis Palmer Swift (February 7, 1882 – November 3, 1953) was a Major General in the United States Army. He was the grandson and namesake of Civil War Major General Innis Newton Palmer,〔''Gen. Swift, A Cavalryman'', San Antonio Light, August 31, 1951, Page 21A.〕 as well as the grandson of Brigadier General Ebenezer Swift. His four decades of military service culminated in his commanding a unit during the liberation of the Philippines in World War II.
==Early life and career==
Swift was born at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the son of Major General Eben Swift and Susan Palmer.〔 He graduated from West Point in 1904 and was commissioned in the cavalry. He served as aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing in the Philippines〔 and then served in Mexico. While a First Lieutenant commanding C Troop, 13th Cavalry, he accompanied First Lieutenant George S. Patton on the hunt for Julio Cardenas, commander of Pancho Villa's personal bodyguard.〔D'Este, pp. 172-173.〕 During World War I he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for the 86th Division.
Swift attended the Army Command and General Staff School, graduating in 1923, and remained at the school as faculty until 1929.〔Berlin, Robert H. (“U.S. Army World War II Corps Commanders: A Composite Biography” ). ''The Journal of Military History'', Vol. 53, No. 2 (April, 1989), pp. 147-168.〕 He subsequently attended the Army War College and the Army Industrial College
In 1940 he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in 1941 to Major General and placed in command of the 1st Cavalry Division and Fort Bliss.〔''Swift Quite a Gardener'', San Antonio Light, December 12, 1947, Page 4B.〕 He participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers, where he coined the nickname used by army light observation aircraft when he told a pilot after a bumpy landing, "You looked just like a damn grasshopper!"〔Graff, p. 109.〕
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