Courtesy of Michael
Stein:
Brigadier General Truman Everett Boudinot
Born September 2, 1895 in Hamilton,
Iowa
Died December 11, 1945
Second Lieutenant 1917
First Lieutenant 1917
Captain (Temporary) 1918
Captain 1920
Major 1935
Lieutenant Colonel 1940
Colonel (Aus) 1941
Brigadier General (AUS) 1944
Served with 8th Cavalry Regiment 1917-19
Student, Cavalry School 1919-20
Served with Army Air Service 1922-23
Served with Signal Corps 1923-27
Served in the Philippines 1925-27
Student, Infantry School 1927-28
Student, Command & General Staff School
1936-37
Served with 13th Cavalry Regiment 1937-40
Plans & Training Officer, AFRTC, Ft. Knox
1940-42
Commanding Officer, 32nd Armored Regiment
1942-44
Commander, Combat Command "B", 3rd Armored
Division 1944-45
Commanding General, 7th Armored Division 1945
General Boudinot was born in 1895 and served in World
War II. The General died in 1945 and was buried in Section 3 of Arlington
National Cemetery. His wife, Lolita Sargent Boudinot (1895-1975) is buried
with him. We are actively seeking information about him and his career.Should
you have such information, please contact the Webmaster.
Like Combat Command "A", the story of CC "B"
is the history of the 3rd Armored Division. Under Brigadier General Truman
E. Boudinot, the volatile California horseman, tanker, and one-time army
free balloon racer, Combat Command "B" fought many of the hardest and most
successful actions ever engaged in by Spearhead" forces. CC "B" totted
up a record of successive victories throughout the entire western campaign.
From Normandy to the Elbe, General Boudinot
led this big, versatile command to final victory. It was no accident that
CC "B" took the first German town to fall to an invader since Napoleonic
days. These same dusty, triumphant tankers, infantrymen and engineers,
along with their comrades of CC "A" and "Reserve", later led the American
First Army into flaming Paderborn to encircle the vital Ruhr area of industrial
Germany. During heavy action through the Normandy, northern France, Ardennes,
Rhineland, and central Germany campaigns, this crack armored assault force
ground ahead against all odds.
U. S. Army Photo
BOUDINOT, LOLITA S
DATE OF BIRTH: 09/05/1895
DATE OF DEATH: 11/04/1975
DATE OF INTERMENT: 11/11/1975
BURIED AT: SECTION 3
SITE 1878-A
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
WIFE OF TE BOUDINOT
BOUDINOT, TRUMAN E
VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknow\n
DATE OF DEATH: 12/21/1945
DATE OF INTERMENT: 12/28/1945
BURIED AT: SECTION 3
SITE 1878-A
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Posted: 17 August
2003 Updated: 5 September 2004 Updated: 17 September 2005
