By 1955 General Bennett had received degrees from both the General Staff College and the Army War College. as an instructor for he Department of Tactics. He served with the 62nd during the Normandy Landing and sub- sequent European campaigns until the end of World War II. Trained in desert combat, he saw action in Africa and Sicily, where in 1943 he took command of the 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. Upon graduation he was commissioned a Lieutenant of Artillery and was assigned to the 37th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. BENNETT THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Major General Donald Vivian Bennett was born in Lakeside, Ohio in 1915 and after attending Michigan State College for two years entered the Class of 1940, United States Corps of Cadets. lOHNSON CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY MAJOR GENERAL DONALD V. WHEELER CHAIRMAN OF THE |OINT CHIEFS OF STAFF GENERAL HAROLD K. RESOR SECRETARY OF THE ARMY GiSAlW ' ■1 P ' H 1 1 J t 1 BL ' ' ' 1 B K ' iM H H H Hf ! TTTTT I. CLIFFORD SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HONORABLE STANLEY R. JOHNSON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HONORABLE CLARK M. 1968 HOWITZER PLEBE SECTION YEARLING SECTION cow SECTION 166 FIRSTY SECTION 222 b LYNDON B. THE HOWITZER has been entrusted to the Class of 1968 for one year, but it re- mains a publication of the Corps of Ca- dets. Thus it is that in these pages will be found not only cadets of the graduating class, but also those of the present underclasses. In particular, those classes which follow immediately after us will find that our story is very nearly their own. And although the story is specifically that of the Class of 7965, it belongs, in a larger sense, to all cadets: For specific events and customs may change over the years, but the history of one class re- mains, in many respects, the history of all classes. Its words and pictures tell the story of our class. This book is a chronicle of those four years. On that day we began a course that would end four years later when we were commissioned as officers of the United States Army. And as that first day drew to a close we marched with timid pride to Trophy Point where, before the admiring eyes of families and friends, we raised our hands, repeated a few solemn words, and.
Our new guardi- ans, however, wasted no time, but quickly began the task of molding us in their own image. Totally bewildered by our new sur- roundings, we realized that we were a long way from becoming the dashing military figures we had imagined our- selves as, and which we knew the public would expect us to be.
There we were received by immaculate- ly uniformed figures who introduced us to the profession to which we had de- cided to dedicate our lives. On that July First, 997 young men laid their civilian pasts behind them and strode through a gran- ite archway into a strange new world. ■.:M) h:m m The West Point Class of 7968 was born on a hot summer day in the 163rd year of the Military Academy. i:f ' :iv.Vri ' ' ' ufi ' is? Wit " u kwi " ! ?- (HiMaiTPRai.
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