James McCormack, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Council on Foreign Relations.[6][8] Bilderberg.[7]
Former Major General of U.S. Air Force. Consultant to the White House and other Government Agencies.
General McCormack has been awarded the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster and the Bronze Star Medal. His foreign decorations include the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre with palm and the Order of the British Empire.[2]
His business connections include chairmanship of the Massaschusetts Bay Transportation Authority and directorships on the boards of Eastern Air Lines, the Bulova Watch Company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Mitre Corporation. He plans to resign from each of these posts as he has already done at the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.[4]
Oct 1965, Appointed Chairman of the Communications Satellite Corporation.[2] Filling the post of Leonard H. Marks, who resigned Sept. 1 to become Director of the United States Information Agency. Comsat is a private corporation created by Congress to develop and operate a worldwide system of space communications. It is at present operating the Early Bird communications satellite.[4]
Vice President of M.I.T.[4] he has supervised the school’s two largest research programs - Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., and the Instrumentation Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. There two programs employ some 3,600 persons, including 1,200 scientists and engineers. Their projects stress research in communications, data-processing and space and missile technology. His military service also included scientific work.[4]
1955 to 1958 - Organised the Institute for Defense Analysis, a group of 10 universities sipporting the Defense Department and othe Federal agencies in science and technology.[4]
At his retirement as a 45-year-old two star general he was director of research and development at Air Force Headquaters.[4]
25 Jul 1950, he was transferred from the Army to the Air Force.[2]
1947 to 1950 - Director of the Division of Military Application of the Atomic Energy Commission, station at Washington.[2]
WW2 - May 1945, he returned to the United States and was reassigned to the War Department General Staff, Washington, D.C., where he served successively as a member of the strategy and policy group, as assistant chief and chief of the Strategic Policy Section, and as chief of the Politico-Military Survey Section.[2]
WW2 - October 1943 - he went overseas in to become chief of the Movements Branch First Army Group in Europe, and the following July was named chief of the Movements Branch, 12th Army Group, in that theater.[2]
WW2 - March 1943 he became chief of the Construction Branch, War Department General Staff.[2]
A year later he was assigned to the War Department General Staff, Washington, D.C., as assistant chief of the Construction and Allowances Branch. [2]
December 1940, he assumed command of a battalion of the 20th Regiment at Fort Benning. He became commander of the 76th Engineer Company at Fort McClellan, Ala., in July 1941.[2]
October 1939, he became a company commander with the 21st Engineer Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga., and eight months later was named regimental adjutant of the 20th Engineer Regiment at that station.[2]
September 1937, he entered the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va., and after graduating the following June was named assistant engineer on the Reservoir Project at Sardis, Miss.[2]
May 1936, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his master of science degree in civil engineering a year later. His next assignment was as assistant to the district engineer at Boston, Mass.[2]
Sep 1935 - He then returned to the United States, and was assigned to the Eighth Engineers at Fort McIntosh, Texas.[2]
10 Jun 1932 - Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.[2]
1932 - Rhodes Scholar, Hertford College, University of Oxford.[2]
1928 - Graduated U.S. Military School at West Point, N.Y.[2]
1910 - Graduated Riverside Military Academy.[2]
Died 3 Jan 1975, from Not Known. Age 64.
[2] - U.S. Air Force - MAJOR GENERAL JAMES MCCORMACK JR.
[3] - FYI - Wiki - James McCormack, Jr. (Rhodes 1932)
[5]- Comsat Satelites 1966 onwards
[6] Behold a Pale Horse By William Cooper (Council on Foreign Relations)
[8] - Nuclear Weapons And Foreign Policy By Henry A Kissinger
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