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Early life. Wedemeyer was born on July 9, 1896, in Omaha, Nebraska, and was a graduate of the Creighton Preparatory School. Prewar career. Albert C. Wedemeyer as a newly commissioned second lieutenant, pictured here sometime in the early 1920s. In 1919, he graduated from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York.
He excelled at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (1934–36), and was chosen to attend the German War College in Berlin (1936–38), about which he wrote a report on the German military mind and machine.
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Albert Coady Wedemeyer (wĕd´ēmī´ər), 1897–1989, American general, b. Omaha, Nebr., grad. West Point, 1918. After service in China, the Philippines, and Europe, he was graduated (1936) from the general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and was sent to the German general staff school.
Ernst Emile Von Lorenz, who served as a United States Army Commander in 1889, was a graduate, as was US Army Colonel Albert Coady Wedemeyer, who served in World War II. The Staff College restructured after World War I and dissolved following World War II .
Albert Wedemeyer ws born in Nebraska and graduated from West Point in 1918, seeing no combat in the First World War. He served in China in 1930-32 and became fluent in the language. He was a 1936 graduate of the Command and General Staff School and attended the German Kriegsakademie in 1936-1938.
Dec 21, 1989 · Albert Coady Wedemeyer, one of the few ranking staff officers who shaped America’s military strategy during World War II and its diplomatic policy in the years immediately following, is dead.
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Albert C. Wedemeyer (b.1897 d.1989) graduated United States Military Academy (1919); served in the 29th Infantry (1920-1922); the 31st Infantry, later 57th Infantry, Philippine Islands (1923-1925); 12th Infantry, (1925-1927); District of Washington (1927-1930); 15th Infantry, Tientsin, China (1931-1932); Intelligence Division, G-2 War ...
