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...OWEN S. HOGE...
Major General William M. Hoge, 57, commander of IX Corps: West Point, 1916, M.I.T., 1922; with U.S. Army engineers in France during World War I; organized construction of Alcan (Alaska-Canada) highway, 1942; commander 9th Armored Division unit which captured Remagen Bridge, 1945; this week took the post made vacant by the death of Major General Bryant Moore (see above) whom he had succeeded in 1948 as U.S. commander at Trieste...
...Thin to Hold. Last week a U.S. major, Charles Hoge, came limping into Seoul on sore legs and blistered feet. He had been KMAG adviser to the R.O.K. national police in Chunchon, which was stormed by guerrillas last fortnight. Major Hoge's story...
...then rumbled 400 miles across France. Patton's grey-haired, hard-as-nails chief of staff, Major General Hugh S. Gaffey, took it over in December. Soon after the Rhine crossings, Gaffey was made a corps commander. Now the 4th is run by dark, handsome Brigadier General William Hoge, who seized the Remagen bridge intact while he was with the First Army, then captured whole the Main River bridge at Aschaffenburg in his first east-of-the-river task for Patton...
...Suddenly Hoge's men realized that they had forced a fantastic break in the fortunes of war. They had seized a Rhine bridge intact. It was a moment for history. German prisoners ruefully reported that the deadline for blowing the bridge had been 4 p.m.-ten minutes after the Americans burst into Remagen...