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Roderick "Rod" Wetherill, Sr. (January 19, 1918 – June 26, 1978) was a notable officer of the United States Army from World War II through the Vietnam War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biographical stub at West Point alumni website )〕 The official Army history of the War in southeast Asia considers him to have been a "key ... commander in Vietnam". He is the son of Richard Wetherill and Elenor Jane Eckerson. ==Education and early career== Wetherill graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1940,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1940 West Point Yearbook )〕 as had his father and both his sons, Roderick, Jr. and Robert Wetherill as well as both grandsons, Chad and Brett Wetherill.〔 While a young Lieutenant, he married Josephine Bolling, in March 1941, at a church in Waban, Massachusetts; his bride was a daughter of Army officer Alexander R. Bolling, who later became a Lieutenant General and former Chief of Army Intelligence. He was working there at West Point after graduation, and residing in Highland Falls, New York, when his son Roderick Wetherill, Jr., was born on January 20, 1942.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography at West Point alumni website )〕 His first son was born six weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the day after his own birthday. He was promoted several times during and after World War II. In June 1953, then-Lieutenant Colonel Wetherill took part in a "retrograde movement" at Pukhan River, towards the end of the Korean War. He was "division artillery advisor" at the battle of Pukhan River, and witnessed first-hand the horrible casualties; he said, "I could see by the gun flashes the arms legs and faces hanging all over the wire."〔 He also attempted to save some soldiers from being captured as prisoners of war by the Chinese "Red" Army.〔 From about 1955 to 1957 was a Colonel stationed at the Headquarters, Continental Army Command. From April 1963 through December 1964, he was chief of staff of the V Army in Germany, at the rank of Brigadier General. 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「Roderick Wetherill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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