Ginder, Philip D. (Philip DeWitt), 1905-1968

Philip DeWitt Ginder (1905-1968) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1927 and married Martha Calvert in 1933. They divorced in 1945. During World War II, Ginder was among the first ashore at Normandy on D-Day, and was in command of forces which captured the German town of Hurtgen for which he received the Distinguished Service Cross. At the war's end, he was in the Czechoslovakian town of Rokycany near Pilsen. From 1946 to 1949, Ginder attended the National War College in Washington, after which he served on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur in the Far East. From 1949 to 1951, he was Senior Military Attache at Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1951, Ginder married Jean Dalrymple a Broadway producer. From 1951 to 1952, he was Commander of the 6th U.S. Infantry Regiment in Berlin, then in 1953 took command of the 45th U.S. Infantry Division in Korea. In 1954 he became the commander of the 37th U.S. Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, then in 1955 became Commander General of the Fifth U.S. Army in Chicago. He retired from the Army with rank of Major General in 1963.