Rumbough, William S.
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William S. Rumbough was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He started his military career with the Maryland National Guard in 1916 and was commissioned into the U.S. regular Army as a second lieutenant of infantry in 1917. Most of Rumbough's military career focused on military communications work for the Signal Corps. From the 1920s through the early 1940s he had various assignments at the Army Signal School, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer and the Hawaiian Division. He was named commanding officer, Signal Corps Replacement Training Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri in October 1941. He then became Chief Signal Officer, European Theater of Operations (ETO) in May 1942. In July 1945 he returned to the U.S. and was assigned to the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington D.C. as Chief of the Personel and Training Service. He retired from military service in 1946.
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