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...Colonel Robert Brewer, 43, an operations, training and planning officer. Father: Major General (ret.) Carlos Brewer, who taught military science at Purdue University...
...Colonel Frank B. Clay, 41, senior adviser to the Vietnamese 7th Division, who was slightly wounded last month when Viet Cong bullets ripped through the canopy of his helicopter. Father: General (ret.) Lucius D. Clay. World War II commander and lately President Kennedy's special adviser on Berlin...
...Major David Bolté, 36, who serves on the headquarters staff of General Paul Harkins, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. Father: General (ret.) Charles Bolté, commander of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division in its sweep through Northern Italy during World War II (two uncles are generals...
Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...