1. Major General Sherman Miles was an officer of the United States Army, who was Chief of the Military Intelligence Division in 1941, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happened, bringing the United States into World War II.
12 Facts About Sherman Miles
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Sherman Miles was a hereditary companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
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Sherman Miles returned to the US and was detailed to the General Staff Corps.
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Immediately after the armistice, Sherman Miles was assigned to the US peace negotiation team.
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On January 27,1919, Sherman Miles led the delegation of the Coolidge Mission which, on the way to Carinthia, visited the city of Marburg.
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Sherman Miles proposed, instead, a border along the Karawanks further south.
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The MID greatly expanded during his time as G-2, but, as Sherman Miles put it, "always in a piecemeal manner".
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Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles was sent on an inspection tour through South America to survey installations there and to make recommendations for military assistance to the Latin American countries; Brigadier General Raymond E Lee became Acting Assistant Chief of Staff G-2.
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On January 28,1942, Sherman Miles was promoted to major general and then reassigned as commanding general of the First Corps Area Service Command in Boston.
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Sherman Miles served in this position for the duration of the war and retired from the Army on February 28,1946.
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Sherman Miles died at the hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts after long illness and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Miles Mausoleum on October 12,1966.
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General Sherman Miles joined the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States as a Second Class Companion and, upon his father's death, became a Companion of the First Class.