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...Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Major General Laurence Keiser, former commander of the 2nd Division, will direct the Infantry Replacement Center at Indiantown Gap, Pa. Major General William B. Kean, former commander of the 25th Division, will command the III Corps at Camp Roberts, Calif...
...December Major General Laurence Keiser, who had commanded the 2nd Division since its arrival in Korea last summer, was relieved of his command. The official reason was that Keiser had pneumonia. Keiser was replaced by red-faced, outspoken Major General Robert B. ("Uncle Bob") McClure, a top staff man in the Pacific war who had once remarked that the "smell of a dead Jap is perfume to my nostrils...
...WMEX: "Story of the Symphony" (Mahler's Fifth Symphony). Tucker Keiser, Northeastern University...
...last week came news of the end of one of the most spectacular careers in the Army's history. Donald M. Keiser had died Dec. 11, "of natural causes," somewhere in Africa, where he was chief of staff of the Bomber Command in Major General Lewis H. Brereton's Middle East Air Force...
Five years ago Michigan-born Don Keiser was a private in the Air Corps. When he died at 28 he was probably the youngest man in the U.S. Army to wear a colonel's eagles. He went from the ranks to become a flying cadet, got his commission and his pilot's wings in 1939. He received the D.F.C. for flying a Fortress with the famed 19th Bombardment Group to the Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star...