Albrecht, Frank McAdams, 1901-

Major general, United States Army Corps of Engineers.

From the description of Frank McAdams Albrecht papers, 1928-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869715

Biographical Note

• 1901, June 11: Born, Denver, Colorado
• 1923: B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
• 1926: Degree in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• 1926: Married Page Williams of San Antonio, Texas
• 1939: The Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Regular Course
• 1942: Colonel
• 1942: Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer's Office of the Services of Supply in the European Theater of Operations in England. Later Deputy Chief Engineer for Planning
• 1943: Senior U.S. Logistical Officer on the early Joint-Combined Staff, which became General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters. He was the logistics member of a team that presented the original Overlord Plan for the Allied Invasion
• 1943: Chief of Staff of the Forward Echelon of the Communications Zone
• 1944: At the U.S. element of the Allied Control of Germany. Responsible for planning for the demobilization of the German Army under Allied control and other demilitarization measures
• 1945: Engineer of the Fourth Army
• 1953: Brigadier General
• 1953 - 1955 : Chief Engineer, U.S. Army, Europe
• 1955: In Charge of logistics for Exercise SAGEBRUSH. Director of Plans and Programs in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics of the Army General Staff in Washington, D.C.
• 1957: Major General
• 1959: Division Engineer for the Corps of Engineers in the Southeast United States, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Panama

From the guide to the Frank McAdams Albrecht Papers, 1928-1965, (Hoover Institution Archives)