Chronology

1940	July	Colonel, assigned Commanding Officer, 2d Armored Brigade
	October St	Promoted to Brigadier General
	November	Assigned Acting Commanding General, 2d Armored Division
1941	April 4	Promoted to Major General
	April 11	Assigned Commanding General, 2d Armored Division
	June	Tennessee maneuvers
	Oct-Nov	Carolina maneuvers
	Aug-Sep	Louisiana-Texas maneuvers
	December 7	Pearl Harbor
1942	Jan 15	Assigned Commanding General, I Armored Corps
	Mar 26	Designated to command the Desert Training Center
	April 10	Arrived Desert Training Center
	July 30	To Washington to prepare for Torch
	Aug 5-21	To London for Torch planning
	Nov 8	Torch landings in French North Africa
1943	Mar 6	Assigned Commanding General, II Corps in Tunisia
	Mar 12	Promoted to Lieutenant General
	April 15	Relieved from command of II Corps
	July 10	Invasion of Sicily; activation of Seventh Army; assigned Commanding General, Seventh Army
	Aug 17	Capture of Messina
1944	Jan 22	Ordered to United Kingdom
	Jan 26	Appointed Commanding General, Third Army
	Feb 3	Orders revoked; attached to Third Army as Acting Commanding General
	March 26	Assigned Commanding General, Third Army
	June 6	Invasion of Normandy
	July 6	Arrival in France
	Aug 1	Third Army becomes operational in France
	Aug 16	Appointed Brigadier General, Regular Army, with date of rank from September 1, 1943; appointed Major General, Regular Army, with date of rank from September 2, 1943
	December 16	German Ardennes counteroffensive
1945	April 14	Promoted to General
	May 9	End of war in Europe
	June 4-July 4	Leave in the United States
	Oct 6	Relieved of command of Third Army; assigned Commanding General, Fifteenth Army
	December 9	Automobile accident near Mannheim; hospitalized in Heidelberg
	December 21	Death
	December 24	Interred at Hamm, Luxembourg