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Retirement announcement for Major General James A. Richardson III The Inspector General:



Ft Myer, VA, 29, November, 1966.

James A. Richardson III, was born 17 January 1908 in Johnston, South Carolina. He received much of his education in California and in 1933 was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.

General Richardson's military career began in March 1937, when he was commissioned as a Reserve second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. Transferred to the Ordnance Corps in 1941, for the next three years he was concerned primarily with maintenance and supply activities. In 1944, assigned to the Area Petroleum Office of Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, he helped coordinate allied oil distribution and production and res-establish the civilian economy of liberated European countries. Returning to the United Stares in 1964, General Richardson was made Director of the Products Division at Raritan Arsenal. In 1949 he received a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School. From 1949 to 1952, he was stationed in the Far East Command, serving successively in General MacArthur's General Headquarters; in Headquarters, Eighth United States Army: in Headquarters, Japan Logistical Command; and as Commanding Officer of the Tokyo Ordnance Depot, a weapons rebuild and supply depot supporting Korean operations.

After General Richardson's graduation from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1953, hw was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, in Washington. During his four years' tour on the Army General Staff, the General served in servarl capacities, including Chief of Production, Deputy Chief and Chief of Procurement, and Assistant Director of Procurement. General Richardson was assigned as Commanding Officer of Frankford Arsenal in May 1957. He returned to the Far East in October 1959 and was assigned duties both as Commanding General of the 7th Logistical Command and as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, Eighth United States Army. He remained in command of the 7th Logistical Command until ordered to the Pentagon in January 1961.

Assigned as Director of Procurement in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, General Richardson continued as Director of Procurement for the Army when, on August 1962, that function was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Logistics. In December 1963 he became Deputy Inspector General.

On 1 December 1965 General Richardson was named The Inspector General of the United States Army, the position from which he retires.

AWARDS Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit with Two Oak Leaf Clusters Bronze Star Medal American Defense Service Medal with Foreign Service Clasp American Campaign Medal Europe-Africa-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Bronze Service Start Warld War II Vitory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Japan Clasp National Defense Service Medal with One Oak Leaf Cluster Korean Service Medal Most Excellent Order of British Empire in Degree of Honorary Officr United Nations Service Medal Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation

Jaytho (talk) 20:30, 11 June 2013 (UTC)