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Gen Clinton Warden Russell

Birth: May 6, 1891
Hico
Hamilton County
Texas, USA
Death: Mar. 23, 1943
Fort Jay
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA

USMA Class of 1913. Brigadier General. Cullum No. 5165.

He was born in Hico, Texas on May 6, 1891. He graduated from West Point with a commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1913. He served with infantry units in the United States and the Philippines. In 1916, he learned to fly at San Diego, California and during World War I was Commanding Officer of the Air Service Flying School at Waco, Texas. Then, he was an instructor at Texas A&M College and at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a graduate of the Army War College and the Navy War College. In 1939, he became Chief of Staff, General Headquarters Air Force at Langley Field. In January 1941, he was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Air Corps and later became the Chief of Staff of the Air Forces Combat Command. In March 1942 he was on an overseas assignment, returning in October 1942. He became the liaison officer for the War Department in the headquarters of Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet. His awards included the Victory Medal, Punitive Expedition Medal of 1917 and the La Estrella de Abdon Calderon Medal of Ecuador. He died at the age of 51 years in the Station Hospital at Fort Jay, Governors Island in New York on Wednesday, March 23, 1943.
Source: The Evening Star, Friday, March 26, 1943.

Family links:
Spouse:
Dorothy Kendall Russell-Patten (1897 - 1991)*

Children:
William Kendall Russell (1917 - 1977)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery
West Point
Orange County
New York, USA
Plot: Section I, Row B, Site 37.

Created by: SLGMSD
Record added: Jan 12, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 123335018
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