Sayler, Henry, 1893-1970.

Henry B. Sayler was born on November 4, 1893 in Huntington, Indiana. He was a student at Braden's Preparatory School in Highland Falls, New York, from 1910 to 1911. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy in 1915, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Coast Artillery Corps. On October 6, 1917 he married Jessie Dale Dixon. In 1921 he transferred to Ordnance Department. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1923, and graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1933. He served as Chief Ordnance Officer, European Theater of Operations, 1942 to 1945, and Director of Research and Development, Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, 1945 to 1949. He retired from the Army in November 1949 as a Major General. He died on May 7, 1970 in Savannah, Georgia.