This is a list of commanders of the 24th Infantry Division of the United States Army, which was activated in 1941. It was inactive from 1957 to 1958, 1970 to 1975, 1996 to 1999, and since 2006. The 24th Division's antecedents were known as the Hawaiian Division, which existed from 1921 to 1941.
Commanders
MG Durward S. Wilson, October 1941 – July 1942 MG Frederick A. Irving, August 1942 – October 1944 MG Roscoe B. Woodruff, November 1944 – November 1945 BG Kenneth F. Cramer, November 1945 – December 1945 MG James A. Lester, December 1945 – January 1948 MG Albert C. Smith, January 1948 – April 1949 MG Anthony C. McAuliffe, April 1949 - May 1949 MG William F. Dean, June 1949 – July 1950 MG John H. Church, July 1950 – January 1951 MG Blackshear M. Bryan, January 1951 – December 1951 MG Henry I. Hodes, January 1952 – February 1952 BG Paul D. Adams, February 1952 – March 1952 BG George W. Smythe, March 1952 – October 1952 BG Wilbur E. Dunkelberg, October 7–30, 1952 BG Barksdale Hamlett, October 1952 – November 1952 MG Charles L. Dasher Jr., November 1952 – October 1953 MG Carter B. Magruder, November 1953 – January 1954 BG Carl I. Hutton, January 1954 – February 1954 MG Paul D. Harkins, March 1954 – July 1954 MG Mark McClure, July 1954 – June 1955 MG Stanhope B. Mason, July 1955 – October 1956 MG Russell L. Vittrup, October 1956 – April 1957 BG Charles H. Bonesteel III, April 1957 – May 1957 MG Ralph W. Zwicker, May 1957 – October 1957 (Division Inactive October 1957 – July 1958) MG Ralph C. Cooper, July 1958 – September 1959 BG Albert Watson II, September 1959 – October 1959 BG Autrey J. Maroun, October 1959 – November 1959 MG Edwin A. Walker, November 1959 – April 1961 BG Harry J. Lemley Jr., April 1961 – May 1961 MG Charles H. Bonesteel III, May 1961 – April 1962 MG Benjamin F. Taylor, April 1962 – April 1963 BG William A. Enemark, April 1963 – May 1963 MG William A. Cunningham III, May 1963 – July 1965 MG Edward L. Rowny, July 1965 – September 1966 BG Herron M. Maples, September 1966 – October 1966 MG Roderick A. Wetherill, October 1966 – August 1968 MG Linton S. Boatwright, August 1968 – September 1969 MG Robert R. Linville, September 1969 – March 1970 (Division Inactive April 1970 – September 1975) MG Donald E. Rosenblum, September 1975 – September 1977 MG James B. Vaught, September 1977 – August 1979 MG James F. Cochran III, August 1979 – May 1981 MG John R. Galvin, June 1981 – June 1983 MG H. Norman Schwarzkopf, June 1983 – June 1985 MG Andrew L. Cooley, June 1985 – July 1987 MG Michael F. Sprigelmire, July 1987 – September 1988 MG Horace G. Taylor, September 1988 – June 1990 MG Barry R. McCaffrey, June 1990 – May 1992 MG Paul E. Blackwell, May 1992 – June 1994 MG Joseph E. DeFrancisco, June 1994 - May 1996 (Inactive April 1996 – 5 June 1999) MG Freddy E. McFarren, 9 June 1999 - 4 August 2000 MG Robert J. St. Onge Jr., 4 August 2000 - 7 November 2001 MG Thomas F. Metz, 7 November 2001- 3 February 2003 BG Frank Helmick, 3 February 2003 - 15 May 2003 MG Dennis E. Hardy, 15 May 2003 - 1 August 2006 (Inactive since August 2006)
References
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