Fellers, Bonner Frank, 1896-1973
<p>Brig, Gen. Bonner, F. Fellers, an intelligence and planning specialist in World War II died of heart failure Sunday in Washington. He was 77 years old.</p>
<p>General Feller graduated from West Point in 1918 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps.</p>
<p>Part of his service before World War II was in the Philippines, including a tour of duty from 1936 to 1938 as assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then military adviser to the Philippine Government.</p>
<p>In September of 1940 as a major he was sent to Europe as assistant military attaché in Madrid, and a month later was assigned to Cairo, as military attache.</p>
<p>From Oct. 31, 1940, to July 20, 1942, according to the citation accompanying his Distinguished Service Medal, General Fellers “by personal observation of the battlefields, contributed materially to the tactical and technical development of our Armed Forces.”</p>
<p>It was during this period that he filed reports on the desert campaigns in Lybia involving Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and the British. This intelligence work also earned him his star.</p>
<p>Ordered home in July, 1942, he participated in tank‐warfare training duty and was then ordered to the Pacific, where he became General MacArthur's Joint Planning Section (G‐3) chief. He accompanied General MacArthur when he flew to Tokyo to accept the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.</p>
<p>Since his retirement in, November, 1946, General Fellers had written and lectured extensively on national defense and foreign aid. From 1947 to 1952 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee.</p>
<p>He leaves “his wife, the former Dorothy Dysart; a daughter, Nancy, and four granddaughters.</p>
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Place: Washington, D. C.
Place: Madrid
Place: Philippine Islands
Place: Cairo
Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a US Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
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Date: 1896-02-07 (Birth) - 1973-10-07 (Death)
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Place: Philippine Islands
Place: Illinois
Place: Japan
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