Phillip DeWitt Ginder Papers. 1927 - 1968. Personal Files
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Ginder, Philip D. (Philip DeWitt), 1905-1968
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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 Washin...
