11 Facts About Paul Newgarden

Major General Paul Woolever Newgarden was a senior United States Army officer.

Paul Newgarden took an intense interest in marksmanship, earning the nickname "Pistol Paul".

Paul Newgarden became a Distinguished Pistol Shot and a member of the Infantry Pistol Team which, in 1923, won a national championship from the Marines.

Paul Newgarden served in 1924 with the 27th Infantry Regiment in Hawaii as a Major, and completed his tour in the Islands with a year as Inspector of the Hawaiian Division.

Paul Newgarden took part in polo, tennis, swimming, and hunting, and taught tennis at Fort Sill, as he had done in Hawaii.

Paul Newgarden is at home in the field, jungles, or woods.

Paul Newgarden is able to carry out his motto because of his marvelous muscular development, smooth coordination, his ability to maneuver and surprise his prey, and when he hits, he hits hard, and shoots straight at the mark with devastating accuracy.

Paul Newgarden is the most ferocious fighter in the animal kingdom.

Morris took the "Tigers" into battle, Paul Newgarden was the first to command and train them, and the 10th Armored Division played key roles in several engagements during World War II.

In July 1944, while traveling in a military aircraft from an Armored Force conference at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to his Division Headquarters at Fort Benning, Georgia, Paul Newgarden learned that one of his junior officers traveling with him could spend a few hours with his family by rerouting the plane through Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Paul Newgarden was posthumously awarded the Legion of Merit on October 12,1944, the presentation being made to his widow.