He taught school and worked as a school principal before he decided to join the United States Army in 1917. At age 16, he claimed to be 18 and a high school graduate to qualify for teacher training, attended the summer term of the state normal school in Norman, and received his teaching certification. Raised primarily in Oklahoma, he attended grade school and a year of high school in the hamlet of Stella, near Norman. Truscott was born in Chatfield, Texas on January 6, 1895, a son of Dr. Army officers to command a division, a corps, and a field army in combat during the war. He and Alexander Patch were the only U.S. Between 1943–1945, he successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, Fifteenth Army and Fifth Army, serving mainly in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) during his wartime service. (Janu– September 12, 1965) was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer, who saw distinguished active service during World War II. Central Intelligence Agency – senior agent Germany, later Deputy Director for Coordination
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