United States Army Lieutenant General. An 1899 graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, he served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. During World War I he served on the staff of the Supreme War Council, and then the Commission to Negotiate Peace, for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1930 he became commandant of the Coast Artillery School. In 1932 he was appointed commander of harbor defenses in the Philippines as a Brigadier General, where he was responsible for constructing Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, which was used as a bomb-proof storage and personnel bunker and hospital during World War II, and is now the venue for a historical audio-visual presentation about the war. Embick became Director of the War Plans Division as a Major General in 1936, and later that year was named the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff. He was appointed Fourth Corps Area commander in 1938, and later the same year took command of the Third Army as a Lieutenant General, where he served until his 1940 retirement. Embick was recalled for World War II, serving as Chief of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee, Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, and a delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks conference that created the United Nations. He retired again in 1946, receiving a second Distinguished Service Medal. In the late 1940s he served on the commission that proposed reforms to America's military and intelligence agencies, including creation of the Department of Defense by merging the War and Navy Departments.
United States Army Lieutenant General. An 1899 graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, he served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. During World War I he served on the staff of the Supreme War Council, and then the Commission to Negotiate Peace, for which he received the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1930 he became commandant of the Coast Artillery School. In 1932 he was appointed commander of harbor defenses in the Philippines as a Brigadier General, where he was responsible for constructing Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, which was used as a bomb-proof storage and personnel bunker and hospital during World War II, and is now the venue for a historical audio-visual presentation about the war. Embick became Director of the War Plans Division as a Major General in 1936, and later that year was named the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff. He was appointed Fourth Corps Area commander in 1938, and later the same year took command of the Third Army as a Lieutenant General, where he served until his 1940 retirement. Embick was recalled for World War II, serving as Chief of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee, Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board, and a delegate to the Dumbarton Oaks conference that created the United Nations. He retired again in 1946, receiving a second Distinguished Service Medal. In the late 1940s he served on the commission that proposed reforms to America's military and intelligence agencies, including creation of the Department of Defense by merging the War and Navy Departments.
Bio by: Bill McKern
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LIEUTENANT GENERAL
UNITED STATES ARMY
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