19 Facts About Carlos Brewer

Major General Carlos Brewer was a United States Army officer who commanded the 12th Armored Division during World War II.

Carlos Brewer innovated the method of field artillery targeting used in World War II, and implemented triangular organization of divisions.

Carlos Brewer was born on 5 December 1890 in Golo, Kentucky and attended West Kentucky College in Mayfield, Kentucky, until he entered United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1909, graduating 15th in his class in 1913.

Carlos Brewer studied at the Advanced Course at the United States Army Field Artillery School at Ft.

Carlos Brewer went back to the Field Artillery School in 1928 and taught in the Gunnery Department, becoming the Director of the department.

Carlos Brewer's immediate predecessor as head of the Department of Gunnery, who was an instructor when Brewer took advanced coursework there, was Jacob L Devers, who would remain a lifelong friend and later prove providential in the course of his career.

Carlos Brewer graduated from the Army War College in 1934 with a superior rating.

On 26 June 1941, he was promoted to the temporary rank of colonel Carlos Brewer planned and implemented the triangular division organization for the 9th Infantry Division consisting of 3 infantry regiments and 4 artillery battalions, constituting 9,000 soldiers, with an additional 5,000 draftees completing the ranks, beginning in 1941.

On 16 February 1942, Carlos Brewer was promoted to temporary brigadier general and given command of a unit of the 6th Armored Division.

Carlos Brewer oversaw their training through the Tennessee Maneuvers, from September into November 1943 and re-organization from a heavy to a medium tank division.

Carlos Brewer continued to supervise the training of the 12th Armored Division at Camp Barkeley, near Abilene, Texas, from November 1943, until August 1944 when the Division prepared to depart for the European Theater of Operations.

Carlos Brewer had missed combat duty during World War I because he had been on the faculty teaching at West Point and was not enamored with having a non-combat command again.

Carlos Brewer requested termination of his rank of major general and permanent reversion to the rank of colonel, then he wrote to Devers who had been his instructor at Field Artillery School, whom he replaced as its director, and for whom he served as Chief of Staff with the 9th Infantry Division.

Carlos Brewer asked Devers if as a colonel he could command the newly formed 46th Group Heavy Army Artillery assigned to the Seventh Army, commanded by Patch who had been in the same graduating class at West Point and with whom he served under Jacob Devers with the 9th Infantry Division.

Carlos Brewer retired from the military in 1950, but continued working for the Ohio State Research Foundation from 1950 to 1960 as a consultant on classified military research contracts.

Carlos Brewer married Grace Moore on 20 December 1913.

Carlos Brewer was an avid chess player, and was one of twenty players at West Point who played simultaneous games against nine-year old Polish chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky in 1920.

Reshevsky won 19 of the 20 games, including the game against Carlos Brewer, which lasted just under two hours.

Carlos Brewer was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.