McClure, Robert, b. 1897

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Born in Mattoon, Illinois, in 1897, Robert A. McClure graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute before joining the U. S. Army in 1917. In 1944, he was appointed Director of the new Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force; following the war McClure ran the Information Control Division in Germany then the Psychological Warfare Center in North Carolina. He retired in 1956.

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Paddock, Colonel Alfred H. Jr. "Major General Robert Alexis McClure: Forgotten Father of US Army Special Warfare." Accessed May 22, 2012.

From the guide to the McClure, Robert A. Psychological Warfare Press Release 2012-140., 1945, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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