Walter Krueger

Colonel (Infantry), General Staff Corps, U. S. Army

Distinguished Service Medal. General Orders No. 3, War Department, 1924: He served as assistant in the Bureau of Militia Affairs; assistant chief of staff, G-3, and acting chief of staff, 84th Division; assistant chief of staff, G-3, 26th Division; chief of staff, Tank Corps; instructor, Line School, Langres, France; assistant chief of staff, G-3, 4th Corps; and assistant chief of staff, G-3, 6thCorps. By his high professional attainments, superior zeal, loyal devotion to duty, soldierly character, and his dominant leadership, he has exercised a determining influence upon the commands with which he has served, and has contributed in a marked degree to the success of the military operations of our forces.

Record. Born January 26, 1881, Flatow, Germany; son of Julius O. H. and Anna (Hasse) Krueger. Came to United states 1886; to Indiana 1894. Student, Madison, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered service June 17, 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio. Served in Cuba (Spanish-American War), 1898-1899; in the Philippines, 1899-1903, 1908-1909; on Mexican border, as lieutenant colonel, 10th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard; overseas on General Staff, U.S. Army, World War. Distinguished graduate, School of the Line, 1906; Army Staff College, 1907; Army War College, 1921; Naval War College, 1926.

Corporal and sergeant, Company M, 2d Volunteer Infantry, June 17, 1898-February 18, 1899; private, corporal, and sergeant, Company M, 12th U. S. Infantry, June 1, 1899-June 30, 1901; second lieutenant, Infantry, July 1, 1901; first lieutenant, October 10, 1905; captain, June 17, 1916; major (temporary), August 20, 1917; lieutenant colonel (temporary), June 13, 1918; colonel (temporary), May 11, 1919; major, Regular Army, July 1, 1920; lieutenant colonel, April 27, 1921. Chief of one of the survey sections of the military topographical survey of the Island of Luzon, P. I., 1908-1909; instructor, Army Staff College, 1909-1912; inspector-instructor, Pennsylvania National Guard, 1914-1917; assistant, Bureau of Militia Affairs, War Department, June-August, 1917; General Staff as noted in citation, 1917-1919; colonel, 55th Infantry and commanding Trains, 7th Division, 1919-1920; instructor, Army War College, 1921-1922; on special mission in Berlin, Germany, engaged in historical work in German National Archives, 1922; member, War Plans Division, War Department, General Staff, and of the joint Army and Navy Planning Committee of the joint Army and Navy Board, 1922-1925; instructor, Naval War College, Newport, R. I., 1928-___. Still in service.

Translator and publisher of the following books:

• The Regimental War Game (Immanuel), 1907

• Tactics, Infantry (General Balck), 1911

• Tactics and Technique of River Crossings (Colonel Mertens), 1918

Overseas February 26, 1918-June 22, 1919. Battles: Toul, Chateau-Thierry, Meuse-Argonne.

Married Grace Aileen Norvell. Sons, James Norvell and Walter, Jr.; daughter, Dorothy Jane.    

Newport, R. I.