Word: reybold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a two-star general in MacArthur's theater: "In this war there are two items of army equipment which should be memorialized in marble-the tractor and the jeep." Said the Army Engineers' Chief, Major General Eugene Reybold: "Victory seems to favor the side with the greater ability to move dirt...
...head of the Corps is husky, golfing (middle 70s) Eugene Reybold (pronounced Rye-Bold), who was brought to Washington a year ago by Chief of Staff Marshall to head G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went...
...appointment, which most Army men had marked out for Wage & Hour Administrator (and West Pointer) Phil Fleming, engineer soldiers flicked no eyebrows. For General Reybold, even if not a West Pointer, rates high with his fellow officers, and at least his son, Captain Franklin B. Reybold of the Coast Artillery, is a graduate of West Point...
...Engineer officer to take Dick Moore's place as head of the G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff. Chosen to run the section which oversees most of the household details of Army life, from buying soldiers' underwear to building barracks, was tall, golfing Colonel Eugene Reybold, after 13 years spent doing rivers and harbors work for the Army...
True to a custom in Washington (a supposed sop to pacifistic civilian taxpayers), Gene Reybold sat down at his desk in shirt sleeves and mufti, a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles camouflaging his military nose. Like most Army men out of uniform, he managed to look more like a country doctor than like the top-flight soldier...