Roy Stanley Geiger was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served in World War I and World War II. In World War II, he became the first Marine Corps general to lead a field army.
Lieutenant General Roy S. Geiger, U.S. Marine Corps
Geiger (third from left) and III MAC staff during the planning of Okinawa operation. From left to right: David R. Nimmer, Walter A. Wachtler, Geiger, Merwin H. Silverthorn, Sidney S. Wade, Francis B. Loomis Jr. and Gale T. Cummings.
Major General Roy S. Geiger (left), Marine III Amphibious Corps Commander, en route to Guam on board the command ship USS Appalachian. In the center is his Chief of Staff, Colonel Merwin H. Silverthorn and on the right is Brigadier General Pedro del Valle, Corps Artillery commander.
"General Roy S. Geiger Memorial Parkway" sign on County Road 220 in Clay County, Florida, just south of Jacksonville
Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India theater during World War II. Stilwell served as commander of the US forces in the theater, and
Roy Geiger
…Army upon the combat death of its commander, Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Geiger successfully led the Tenth Army until relieved by General Joseph Stilwell. Geiger was born in Middleburg, Florida…
Stilwell in the United States Military Academy yearbook, 1904
Then-Lt. Col. Stilwell as Assistant Chief of Staff, IV Army Corps, October 1918 in France
Stilwell (front row, second on the left) as an instructor at the Infantry School in the 1930s. The school's assistant commandant, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, is sat in the center of the front row, to the right of Stilwell.