Peter Conover Hains III was an American Army cavalry officer and major general who competed in the 1928 Olympic games in the modern pentathlon. Hains graduated from West Point in 1924, where he ranked
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
Courtney Hicks Hodges was a senior officer in the United States Army who commanded the First U.S. Army in the Western European Campaign of World War II. Hodges was a "mustang" officer, rising from pri
Peter C. Hains III
…in 1909. General Hains served as commander of the First Armored Regiment in North Africa during the war, later become an armor officer within General Courtney Hodges' First Army and commanding officer of the Combat Command B, 13th Armored Division between 1944–1945. He was also armored adviser for the European…
Hodges as a lieutenant general, 1944
Hodges as a cadet at West Point
The Allied army commanders hold a conference in a hayfield in northwest France. Pictured are Lieutenant General Hodges, Lieutenant General Harry Crerar, commanding the Canadian First Army, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commanding the 12th Army Group, and Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, commanding the British Second Army
Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges, General Omar Bradley's deputy during the Normandy landings and subsequently commander of the U.S. First Army, part of the 12th Army Group, being decorated by Field Marshal Montgomery at Munchen Gladbach in Germany