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Lunsford Errett Oliver (March 17, 1889 – October 13, 1978) was an American soldier, who commanded the 5th Armored Division during World War II. ==Early life and Army Career Before World War II== Lunsford Erret Oliver was born on March 17, 1889 in Nemaha, Nebraska as a son of Thomas Jefferson Oliver and Mary Lorraine Evans.〔http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/a/h/Rebecca-Dickson-Rahn/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0866.html〕 He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and graduated in the summer of 1913. Subsequently he was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers as a Second Lieutenant on June 12, 1913.〔http://unithistories.com/units_index/default.asp?file=../officers/officers_american.html〕 Many of his West Point classmates later became general officers. For example: Alexander Patch, Geoffrey Keyes, Willis D. Crittenberger, Douglass T. Greene, Charles H. Corlett, Paul Newgarden, William R. Schmidt, Robert L. Spragins, Louis A. Craig, Selby H. Frank, Henry B. Lewis, John E. McMahon, Jr., Carlos Brewer, Richard U. Nicholas, Robert H. Van Volkenburgh, Robert M. Perkins, William A. McCulloch, Francis K. Newcomer and Henry B. Cheadle. Oliver was first assigned to Fort Brown, Texas on border patrol duty as a supply officer during the Pancho Villa Expedition. He was appointed to the Engineer School in Washington, D.C. for further military education and graduated on March 31, 1916. He then served with the 1st Engineer Battalion at the Washington Barracks, before he was transferred to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Lunsford Oliver stayed on active service during World War I, organizing and training railway engineer battalions. After the war, he contributed to the Mississippi River Flood Control Project. and then between years 1924 - 1927 served as an engineer in Alaska Road Commission, which was responsible for the construction of many important Alaska highways. In 1928, he attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for further military education. During the years 1933 - 1937, Oliver served as an District Engineer in Vicksburg, Mississippi and in 1938, he attended United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.〔http://www.generals.dk/general/Oliver/Lunsford_Errett/USA.html〕 After his Army War College studies, Oliver was assigned as an instructor to the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He served in this capacity until 1940, when he was assigned as the Armored Force Engineer at Fort Knox. While there, Colonel Oliver initiated the research that led to the development of the steel treadway bridge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lunsford E. Oliver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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