Orlando Ward
United States Army general
Died when: 80 years 92 days (963 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Major General Orlando Ward (November 4, 1891 – February 4, 1972) was a career United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II.
During the latter, as a major general, he commanded the 1st Armored Division during Operation Torch and during the first few months of the Tunisian campaign, before being relieved in March 1943.
He trained and returned to Europe in 1945 as commander of the 20th Armored Division.Ward also served as Secretary to the Army Chief of Staff, General George C.
Marshall, in the critical years prior to the war and made major contributions to field artillery procedures in the 1930s that, a decade later, made the American field artillery especially effective in World War II.
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