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Col. Virgil Ney
Colonel Virgil Ney (February 19, 1905 - May 14, 1979) was a career U.S. Army officer, military historian and teacher who saw combat in World War II and the Korean conflict.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska...view moreColonel Virgil Ney (February 19, 1905 - May 14, 1979) was a career U.S. Army officer, military historian and teacher who saw combat in World War II and the Korean conflict.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1905, he attended Omaha University before entering the Army in 1926. He was sent to the Pacific in the latter part of World War II as a battalion commander in the Philippine. After the war he remained there as a historian on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, and was also on MacArthur’s staff in Japan. In 1947, Col. Ney was sent to Nanking, China to establish a school for combat historians for the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. During the Korean conflict, he organized a psychological warfare school for the Korean army and participated in anti-guerrilla operations in Cholia Namdo province.
Back in the United States, he went on to graduate from George Washington University in 1953. Whilst earning a master’s degree and doctorate from Georgetown University, he also served as a planning specialist with the Civil Defense office in Washington, taught at American University, was assistant director in the Army War College program at George Washington University and was with the Special Warfare school at Fort Belvoir. He retired from military service in 1957 after a tour of duty in the office of reserve training at Fort Myer and was a senior military analyst and historian with Technical Operations Inc. from 1964 to 1972.
He was a fellow of the Company of Military Historians, a member of the Council on Abandoned Military Posts and the D.C. Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a 32nd degree Mason. He had also been a contributing editor to National Defense Magazine. His last published book in 1978, “Fort on the Prairies,” told the story of garrison life in the frontier days at Fort Atkinson, Iowa.
Col. Ney passed away in Washington, D.C. in 1979, aged 74.view less