Bryant Moore

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Major General Bryant Edward Moore (June 6 1894 – February 24 1951) was a United States Army Officer who commanded the 88th Infantry Division during and after World War II and the IX Corps in the Korean War. A K-8 school is named after him.[citation needed]

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[edit] Childhood and education

He was born in Ellsworth, Maine on June 6 1894 to Nettie Haley Moore and Edward Grafton Moore. He had three siblings: John Leroy Moore, Margaret Moore Coolidge and James Moore. He graduated from Ellsworth High School and was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and at the West Point Military Academy in New York, where he graduated in the class of 1917.[1] His father ran and then later owned Moore's Pharmacy on the corner of Water Street and Main Street in Ellsworth. The family home was on State street, located on a hill above the corner where the store was located and situated across from the First Congregational Church.

[edit] Personal life

Bryant Moore married the former Margaret "Peggy" King, also from Ellsworth, and they had two daughters, Margaret and Barbara.

[edit] Military service

Moore was well known for his diplomatic abilities as well as being fluent in French and an expert in military strategy and military science. [2]

Moore served with the 88th Division in the Pacific and Europe during World War II and in the post-war occupation of Yugoslavia, holding Trieste, where he successfully kept out Tito's troops.[3] From 1949 until 1951, Moore was superintendent of West Point.[1] During the Korean War, under General Matthew Ridgway, he led the IX Corps in Operations Thunderbolt, Killer and Ripper.[4] It was during these operations that General Moore's helicopter crashed. He died a few hours later from an apparent heart attack after having gotten help for the surviving pilot and crew, on February 24, 1951.[1] The account of his service to America was entered into the United States Congressional Record by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Moore was promoted to the rank of four-star general posthumously.

He was buried at West Point Military Academy on the Hudson River in New York, his body being one of the first to be repatriated to American soil during a war.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Death on the Han", Time, 1951-03-05. Retrieved on 2008-05-26. 
  2. ^ NARA-AAD records
  3. ^ "Hot Curve", Time, 1947-09-29. Retrieved on 2008-05-26. 
  4. ^ McGrath, John J.. The Korean War: Restoring the Balance. United States Army. Retrieved on 2008-05-26.
  5. ^ "Taps", Time, 1951-03-19. Retrieved on 2008-05-26.