General William Hood Simpson was a senior United States Army officer who served with distinction in both World War I and World War II. He is best known for being the commanding general of the Ninth United States Army in northwest Europe during World War II.
General William Hood Simpson in 1959.
Simpson on the cover of LIFE magazine, March 12, 1945.
Senior American commanders of the European theater of World War II. Seated, from left to right, are William H. Simpson, George S. Patton, Carl A. Spaatz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Courtney Hodges, and Leonard T. Gerow; standing are (from left to right) Ralph F. Stearley, Hoyt Vandenberg, Walter Bedell Smith, Otto P. Weyland, and Richard E. Nugent.
Simpson (right) with Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Winston Churchill among dragons teeth obstacles of the Siegfried Line near Aachen on March 4, 1945.
Ninth Army (United States)
The Ninth Army was a field army of the United States Army, most recently garrisoned at Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy. It was the United States Army Service Component Command of United States Africa Command.
Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson, commander of the Ninth Army (Life, 12 March 1945)
U.S. 9th Army crossing the Rhine River. Wallach. M2, steel treadway, pontoon bridge, late March, 1945)
