First Special Service Force
6th CO, 3rd REG
Living History Group Member: HRS

Department Of the Army
Office of the Adjutant General
Washington, D.C. 20310






STATEMENT OF MILITARY SERVICE OF

ROBERT TRYON FREDERICK 017 196


APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS


GRADE      DATE OF          DATE OF      DATE OF    
         APPOINTMENT      RANK   ACCEPTANCE

Private, NGUS              8 Oct 1921         
Private, ERC             17 Mar 1923
Corporal, ERC             24 May 1924
Cadet, USMA             1 Jul 1924
2LT, CAC, RA             9 Jun 1928                9 Jun 1928   9 Jun 1928
1 LT, CAC, RA             3 Jul 1934                1 Jul 19349           Jul 1934
CPT, CAC, RA             9 Jun 1938                9 Jun 1938            12 Jun 1938
MAJ, AUS                4 Feb 1841      31 Jan 1941    5 Feb 1941
LTC, AUS                9 Feb 1942      1 Feb 1942    9 Feb 1942
COL, AUS                9 Jul 1942      9 Jul 1942   10 Jul 1942
BG, AUS               27 Jan 1944      18 Jan 1944      
MG, AUS                9 Aug 1944      1 Aug 1944
MAJ, CAC, RA      9 Jun 1945         9 Jun 1945
COL, CAC, RA      10 Jun 1948         10 Jun 1948


CIVILIAN AND MILITARY EDUCATION

United States Military Academy, B. S., 1928
Coast Artillery School, Regular Course, 1938
Command and General Staff School, Regular Course, 1939





                     

SERVICE

Served as private in California
  National Guard         16 Mar 1923             18 Oct 1921         

Served as Private and Corporal,
Enlisted reserve Corps      21 Oct 1924                    17 Mar 1923                                  

Cadet, US Military Academy      9 Jun 1928               1 Jul 1924         
             

On duty with 6th Coast Artillery,
  Ft Winfield Scott, Calif.                Sep 1929                            June 1928         

On duty with 62d Coast Artillery,
  (Antiaircraft), Ft Totten, NY   Jan 1930                            Oct 1929         

Instructor, West Point Preparatory     
  School, Ft Totten, NY        Feb 1930                   Feb 1930

Ground School instructions and
  Flying training, Brooks field, Tex.   Mar 1930                           Apr 1930

On duty with 13th, Harbor Defenses of
  Pensacola, Ft. Barrancas, Fla.   May 1930                 Jan 1931

On duty with 4th coast Artillery
  (Antiaircraft) at Ft. Amador, Panama
  Canal Zone         Feb 1931                           Jan 1933

On duty with 6th Coast Artillery, Ft
  Winfield Scott, California                Jan 1933                            May 1933

Adjutant of the Medford, Oregon District
  Of the Civilian conservation Corps   Jun 1933         Nov 1933

On duty with 6th Coast Artillery, Ft
  Winfield Scott, Calif      Dec 1933         Apr 1934

Acting Assistant Adjutant General,
  Ninth Corps Area, Presidio of San
  Francisco, Calif         May 1934                          Jun 1935

Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General S.A.
  Cheney at Presidio of San Francisco
  And Army Base at Boston, Mass.   Jul 1935         Jun 1937

Adjutant of Harbor Defenses of New
  Bedford, Ft Rodman, Mass      Jul 1937         Aug 1937

Student, The Coast Artillery School,
  Ft Monroe, VA.         Sep 1937         Jun 1938

Student, Command and General Staff
  School, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas   Jul 1938         Jun 1939
Leave            Jul 1939         Aug 1939

Served with 64th Coast Artillery (AA),
  Ft Shafter, Territory of Hawaii as
  Commanding Officer Btry I, AA MG Btry
  Became Assistant Plans and Training
  Officer in Oct 1940 and Plans and
  Training Officer, S-3 in Dec 40   Sep 1939         Jul 1941

Member of Projects Group, Operations
  Division, War Plans Division, War
  Department General Staff, Washington,
  DC, became Chief of Current Section,
  Logistics Group, Operations Division
  In June 1942         Aug 1941         Jun 1942

Commanding Officer later commanding
  General, 1st Special Service Force,
  MTO, ETO, and APT      Jul 1942         Jun 1944

Commanding General, 1st Airborne Task
  Force, ETO         Jul 1944         Nov 1944

Commanding General, 45th Infantry
  Division, ETO         Dec 1944         Oct 1945

Commandant, Coast Artillery School, and
  Commanding General of Harbor Defenses
  Of Chesapeak Bay, Ft. Monroe, VA.   Nov 1945         May 1946

Commandant, coast Artillery School
  Assistant Commandant, Seacoast Branch
  General of Harbor Defenses of
  San Francisco, Ft. Winfield Scott, Calif. Jun 1946      Aug 1947

Chief, Army Advisory Group, The Air
  University, Maxwell field, Ala        Sep 1947      Apr 1948

Commanding General, Hqrs Command,
  USFA, European Command           May 1948      Nov 1948

Member of Army Advisory Panels, Air
  Defense Operations and Airborne
  Operations at Office of the Chief,
  Army field Forces, Ft. Monroe, VA.        Dec 1948      Feb 1949

Division Commander, Ft. Ord, Calif.        Mar 1949      Apr 1951

Chief, Joint US Military Aid Group to
  Greece and Commanding General, Army
  Section, JUSMAG              May 1951      Nov 1951

On duty with 852th AAU, Office Chief of
  Staff                Dec 1951      Mar 1952\

Retired from active service by reason of
  Physical disability in grade of Major
  General 31 March 1952


AWARDS
Major General Frederick was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Service Medal with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal; with one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal, Purple Heart with one Silver and Two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one Bronze Service Star, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one Silver Service Star, Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, World War II Victory Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Distinguished Service Order (British), Legion d’Honneur (Officer) with Croix de Guerre with Palm (French), Legion d’Honneur (Officer) with Croix de Guerre with Palm (second award), Order of St. Charles (Grand Officer) (Monaco), Commander, Order of the Crown (Italy), Silver Medal with Valor (Italy), Liberation Cross of Haakon VII (Norway), and Grand commander of the Order of George the First (Greece).
 
 


      




DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
PRESS BRANCE

MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT TRYON FREDERICK, USA


   Robert Tryon Frederick was born at San Francisco, California, March 14, 1907.  After graduating from Staunton Military Academy in Virginia, in 1924, he entered the U.S. Military Academy as was graduated and appointed Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, June 9, 1928.  His first assignment was with the Sixth Coast Artillery at Fort Winfield Scott, California.

   In September, 1929, General Frederick was transferred to the 62nd Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) at Fort Totten New York, and in January, 1930, became an instructor at the West Point Preparatory School there.  A month later he went to Brooks Field, Texas, for ground school instruction, and in May 1930 was assigned to the 13th Coast Artillery at Fort Barrancas, Florida.

   General Frederick was assigned, in January 1931, to Fort Amador, Panama Canal Zone, for duty with the Fourth Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft).  In 1933 he was assigned to the sixth Artillery at Fort Winfield Scott, California.  From June to December 1933, he was adjutant of the Medford, Oregon, District of the Civilian Conservation Corps, after which he returned to Fort Winfield Scott

   In May 1934, was appointed assistant adjutant General of the Ninth Corps Area, with station at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, and in July 1935, became aide to Brigadier General S. A. Cheney at that station.  In 1936, he moved with General Cheney to the Army Base at Boston, Massachusetts, and in July 1937, was named adjutant of the Harbor Defense of New Bedford, with station at Fort Rodman, Massachusetts.

   General Frederick entered the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, in August 1937.  Upon graduation in June 1938, he entered the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he was graduated in June 1939.  He then was assigned at Fort Shafter Hawaii with the 64th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft), and became assistant plans and Training Officer in October 1940, and plans and Training Officer in December 1940.

   In August 1941, General Frederick was assigned duty with the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff.  In February 1942, he became Chief of the Current Section in the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff and in June 1942, assumed Command of the First Special Service Force at Washington, D.C.

   General Frederick, in November 1943, accompanied the First Special Service Force to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.  He was slightly wounded in action in Italy on June 4, 1944, but returned to active duty two days later.  Later that month he was placed on detached service with the 36th Infantry Division and in July 1944, became Commanding General of the First Airborne Task Force in Southern France.

   In December 1944, General Frederick became Commander of the 45th Infantry Division in France and moved with that unit to Germany.  In October 1945, he became commandant of the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe.  In November 1946, he was appointed Assistant Commandant of the Artillery School at Fort Winfield Scott.  In September 1947, he became Chief of the Army division at the Air University at Maxwell Field, Alabama.

   General Frederick, in May 1948, became commanding General of Headquarters Command, U. S. Forces In Austria.

   In November 1948, General Frederick was assigned as a consultant on the Airborne Panel in the Office of the Chef of Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe.  The following February he assumed command of the Fourth Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California remaining in Command when it was redesignated the Sixth Infantry (Training) Division, in October 1950.

   General Frederick, in May 1951, became Chief of the Joint U.S. Military Aid Group at Athens, Greece.  In October 1951, he was assigned to the Office of the chief of Staff of the Army in Washington, D. C., and the following month was transferred to the Medial Holding Detachment, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.