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r#*•M/fcrun*ijl.\fil«l/lruurHonor*eron*■Bjp a Stars and Strip 4 Staff Writeri12TH ARMY GROUP HQ.. March 9.—Presence on the Continent of the 15th U.S. Army was revealed here today at ceremonies in which Gen. Alphonse Juin. French Chief of Staffpresented thLegionof Honor to its commander, Lt. Gen.Leonard T. Gerow. and seven other American generals for‘operations for the liberation ofFrance* tindication of theThere was no 15th Army's exact location, of its immediate taslc. or whether it has been in action, but the announcement of Us presence came appropriately at a tune when the First Army has elements securely across the Rhine and the Ninth and ThirdAnnies have reached the river, came. too. exactly one month after the beginning of the co-ordmated offensives which have cost the Germans 94.000 men in prisoners alone —roughly the equivalent ofarmy and a half.anUnder Eisenhower's CommandThe 15th takes itsfitth AmericanArmyEisenhowers command.place as the under Gen.Gen. Juin bestowed these honors:Grand Officer Legion of Honor Lt. Gens Omar N. Bradley, nowcommander of 12th Army Group but who led the First Army in theH.Normandy campaign; Courtney Hodges, current commander of theFirst Army; ThirdGeorgecommander.Patton. JrArmyJames H Doolittle, Eighth tnander. ”* v, ” '4andcom-Top Infantry TacticianCommander. Legion of HonorLfU.Gens. Gerow, who commandedV Corps in the First Army in the Normandy operations; William H. Simpson. Ninth Army commander: Lewis H Br ere ton, commander of the First Allied AirborneArmy, and Mat Gen Hoyt S. Van-denberg, Ninth AF commander. Gerow is a professional soldierdescribed as ooe of the top infantry tacticians of the U.S. He wasborn In Petersburg. Va.t the son ofa railroad conductor. The familyname was Giraud, but was changedby members who fled France toescape the Huguenot persecutionsGerow was graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1911, won the DSM in the last war. He hasserved in China and the Philip*From December.pines From December, 194 1. to ebruary, 1942. he was a memberof the War Department's war plans division He came to the ETO in 1942 as commanding general of the 29th Inf DivWhile the bridgehead across the Ri First and Third Armies joined In
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