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Brig.-Gen. Paul McDonald Robinett
Paul McDonald Robinett (1893-1975) was a cavalry and armor officer (Brigadier General) of the U.S. Army. He spent much of his career as a staff officer, and commanded an armored regiment and combin...view morePaul McDonald Robinett (1893-1975) was a cavalry and armor officer (Brigadier General) of the U.S. Army. He spent much of his career as a staff officer, and commanded an armored regiment and combined arms combat command in combat during the Tunisian campaign of World War II.
Born in Missouri’s Ozark foothills, scion of Ozark pioneers, Robinett graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.S. in Agriculture in 1917. He was accepted for officer training and commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry, serving along the border with Mexico during WWI. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant and graduated from the Cavalry School Troop Commander’s course at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1922, and taught Machine Gunnery and animal transportation there 1922-1923. He was a special student at the University of Paris in 1925, attended the French cavalry school at Saumur, and observed French maneuvers near Strasbourg.
He was General Malin Craig’s aide-de-camp 1927-1932, serving in Panama Canal Zone and San Francisco. He completed the Command and General Staff School’s two-year course and graduated June 15, 1934. He attended the U.S. Army War College. He served in the War Department’s General Staff 1937-1941. He was Assistant Chief of Staff for intelligence under both Lesley J. McNair (from June 26, 1941) and George C. Marshall. President F. D. Roosevelt nominated him for promotion to Colonel on November 20, 1942. During the Tunisian Campaign of World War II he commanded the 13th Armored Regiment, “Task Force Green,” and 1st Armored Division’s Combat Command B.
He commanded the Armored School at Fort Knox, Kentucky until he retired at the end of the war.
He died in 1975, aged 81.view less
Books by Brig.-Gen. Paul McDonald Robinett
Armor Command: The Personal Story of a Commander of the 13th Armored Regiment: of CCB, 1st Armored Division, and of the Armored School during World War II