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Harold R. Bull

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and the SHAEF Operational Directives which were issued by Eisenhower's headquarters. Bull's office included the SHAEF meteorological staff which compiled weather reports for use in planning military operations. A favorable weather report by Bull's staff helped General Eisenhower decide to launch the
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As head of the Operations (G-3) section of SHAEF, Bull had a major role in the planning of military operations in Europe. His office prepared most of the periodic situation reports to the
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from October 1943 until SHAEF was dissolved in July 1945. He later served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff of U.S. Forces in Europe (USFET) until returning to the
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in New York state from July 1934 to July 1935 as executive officer and 3rd Battalion commander. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1935, he then served at the
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in France. Promoted to captain in May 1917, he served as a temporary major from June 1918 to March 1920. From October 1918 to August 1920, Bull was assigned to the
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His promotion to colonel was made permanent in October 1942, brigadier general in June 1946 and major general in January 1948.
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area. He then served as an instructor in the Department of English and History at West Point from August 1920 to August 1923.
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in June 1928. Bull served as an instructor at the Infantry School from August 1928 to July 1932. He graduated from the
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on the morning of June 6, 1944. From September 20 to September 29, 1944, Bull was commanding general of the
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in Washington, D.C. From August 1939 to July 1941, he was professor of military science and tactics at the
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Temporarily promoted to major general in May 1942, Bull served as commanding general of
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until his retirement from the Army in July 1952. He then spent five years at the
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Commissioned as an infantry officer, Bull was initially assigned to the
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Promoted to major in February 1923, Bull commanded the 2nd Battalion,
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in Hawaii from October 1923 to January 1925. He graduated from the
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Bull died at his home in the Westmoreland Hills neighborhood of
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in Georgia and Tennessee from June to October 1943.
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