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William P. Yarborough
Lieutenant General William Pelham Yarborough (May 12, 1912 – December 6, 2005) was a United States Army officer and a 1936 graduate of West Point. Yarborough designed the US Army's parachutist badge, paratrooper or 'jump' boots, and the airborne jump uniform. He is known as the 'Father of the Modern Green Berets.'〔Zimmerman, p. 11〕 He is descended from the Yorkshire House of Yarborough. Yarborough is a distant cousin to such British noble figures as the Baron Deramore and Lord Alvingham.
==Early life==
William Pelham Yarborough was born May 12, 1912 in Seattle, Washington. He is the son of Colonel Leroy W. and Addessia Yarborough.〔Clancy, p. 73〕 He attended high school at San Rafael Military Academy in California and later at Columbus, Georgia.〔 In 1931, Yarborough enlisted in the U.S. Army, obtaining an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy a year later in 1932.〔〔Coffman, p.311〕 At his graduation from West Point in June 1936 Yarborough was sworn in as a second lieutenant by General of the Armies John J. Pershing.〔Clancy, p. 74〕 He was assigned to the 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts at Fort McKinley, Luzon where he remained until February 1940,〔 when he was transferred to the 29th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia. He joined the newly formed 501st Parachute Battalion in late 1940 and was given command of Company "C".〔Coffman, p.403〕 Later, as Test Officer for the Provisional Parachute Group in 1941, he designed the paratrooper's boot, the paratrooper's uniform, the parachutist's qualification badge,〔〔Devlin, pp. 92–93〕 and a number of aerial delivery containers for which he received U. S. patents.
Yarborough first met his future wife, Norma Tuttle Yarborough (1918–1999), when she was 12 and he was 18. At the time, they were neighbors when their fathers were stationed at Ft. Benning. They became reacquainted when the two families were next door neighbors at Plattsburgh Barracks in New York. The future Mrs. Yarborough studied under Karl Menninger at Washburn University when her father was assigned to Ft. Leavenworth. In 1936 she was crowned "Miss Topeka."〔"Norma Yarborough Dies; Rites Tuesday", July 29, 1999, available at http://archives.thepilot.com/July1999/07-29-99/072999Yarborough.html〕
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