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4 unusual facts about Far East Command


Blackshear M. Bryan

After a year in Korea, Bryan served as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Far East Command in Tokyo before commanding the XVI Corps in Japan.

Commander-in-chief of the British Armed Forces

Previously, there were also territorial Commands, e.g. Commander-in-Chief Far East.

Emmett H. Walker, Jr.

Walker was activated for the Korean War, joining the 31st Infantry Division as a Captain and serving as a liaison officer at the Far East Command.

John E. Hull

General John Edwin Hull (May 26, 1895, Greenfield, Ohio – June 10, 1975) was a U.S. Army general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, commanded Far East Command from 1953–1955 and the U.S. Army, Pacific from 1948-1949.


South-East Asian theatre of World War II

India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell the Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the Army of India and the Far East Command, first under Air Chief Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham and then from December 23, 1941 commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall.


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Thermosonic bonding

His son, Alexander Coucoulas, served in the US Army as a combat engineer in the Far East Command in the early 1950s and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal for the Korean War (1950-1954).