Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Malin Joseph CRAIG
"GENERAL CRAIG, FORMER ARMY CHIEF, IS DEAD - WASHINGTON, July 25. - (U.P.) - Gen. Malin Craig, former chief of staff who turned out 500,000 World War II officers on a 'production line' basis, died at Walter Reed hospital today of heart disease.
The muscular, square-jawed four-star general would have been 70 Aug. 5. He passed away at 1:45 p.m., EWT., victim of a lingering illness that followed a heart attack more than a year ago.
Burial will be private in the Arlington National cemetery on a date to be announced."
Published in the Tampa Morning Tribune, Thursday, July 26, 1945,
Born on August 5, 1875 he was a professional army officer. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1898.
He went to France in World War I as General Liggett's Chief-of-Staff in the 41st Infantry Division and accompanied him as Chief-of-Staff, I Corps where he was promoted to Brigadier General and remained until the Armistice. He then became Chief-of-Staff of the 3rd Army, where General Liggett rejoined him in May 1919. After the war ended he served at the Army War College, was Chief of Cavalry nd commanded the Panama Canal Zone and IX Corps there.
He was appointed Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1935, succeeding General Douglas MacArthur, and relinquished the position to General George C. Marshall in his retirement in 1939.
He was recalled to active duty in September 1941. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for "his personal influence, aggressiveness and untiring efforts" at Chateau-Thierry, during the St. Mihiel and Argonne-Meuse Offensives in World War I, and an Oak Leaf Cluster for his work as Army Chief of Staff where he presided over "the greatest peacetime reorientation and modernization of the Army in its history."
He died in Washington, D.C. on July 25, 1945 and was buried among other family members in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery.
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