Stanley Dunbar Embick (January 22, 1877 – October 23, 1957) was a

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in the

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Military career

Embick was born in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pennsylvania on January 22, 1877. He attended

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before enrolling at the

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, from which he graduated in 1899. Commissioned a second lieutenant of

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, he served in the occupation of Cuba following the

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. After his service in Cuba, he served in a variety of assignments, including the staff of the Coast Artillery School at

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, Virginia and Assistant to the Chief of Artillery in Washington, D.C. During

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Embick served on the staff of the Supreme War Council, and then the commission to Negotiate Peace, for which he received the

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. The citation for the medal reads: In December 1919 Embick was assigned to the staff of the War Department's War Plans Division, where he served until attending the Army War College. After serving as a War College instructor, Embick served in the Philippines, afterwards returning to Washington to serve as Executive Officer of the War Plans Division. In 1930 he became commandant of the Coast Artillery School. Corps area commanding generals

In 1932 Embick was appointed commander of harbor defenses in the Philippines as a brigadier general, where he was responsible for constructing Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, which was used as a bomb-proof storage and personnel bunker and hospital during

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, and is now the venue for a historical audio-visual presentation about the war. Embick became Director of the War Plans Division as a major general in 1936, and later that year was named the Army's

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. He was appointed IV Corps commander in 1938, and later the same year took command of the Third Army as a lieutenant general, where he served until his 1941 retirement. Embick was recalled for World War II, serving as Chief of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee, Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, and a delegate to the

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that created the

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. He retired again in 1946, receiving a second Distinguished Service Medal.

Later life

In the late 1940s Embick served on the commission that proposed reforms to America's military and intelligence agencies, including creation of the Department of Defense by merging the War and Navy Departments. Embick died at Washington, D.C.'s Walter Reed Army Hospital on October 23, 1957, and was buried at

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. He was the father in law of General Albert Coady Wedemeyer.

Awards

with oak leaf cluster *

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* World War I Victory Medal *

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Dates of rank

References

Bibliography

* ''Biographical Annals of Cumberland County'', Pennsylvania, Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 141–143 * ''General Stanley D. Embick: Military Dissenter'', Society for Military History, by Ronald Schaffer, 1973 * ''Men of West Point: The First 150 Years of the United States Military Academy'', by Richard Ernest Dupuy, 1951 * ''Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York Since its Establishment in 1802'', by George Washington Cullum, 1920, Supplemental Volume VI-A, page 873 * ''Corregidor in Peace and War'', by Charles M. Hubbard and Collis H. Davis, 2007 * ''Dominion or Decline: Anglo-American Naval Relations on the Pacific, 1937–1941'', by Ian Cowman, 1996 * ''Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security'', by Robert C. Hilderbrand, 1990 * ''The National Cyclopaedia of American biography'', by James Terry White, 1967, Volume 43, page 102

External links

Generals of World War II

''Military Times'', Awards and Citations
* ''United States Army in World War II'', by Mark Skinner Watson, Published by US War Department, 1950

* HistoryNet.com

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