Education
United States Military Academy. United States Army War College.
United States Military Academy. United States Army War College.
He relieved Major General Edwin F. Harding, as the commander of the 32nd Infantry Division during the Battle of Buna–Gona and was wounded in the shoulder on 5 December 1942 after being shot by a sniper. Albert Whitney Waldron was born on January 13, 1892 in Rochester, New New York He was commissioned a Second lieutenant in Field Artillery on June 12, 1915.
His first military assignment was with 4th Field Artillery Regiment stationed at Texas City, Texas.
His unit was subsequently transferred to the Brownsville, Texas, where he served until March 1916, when he participated in Pancho Villa Expedition. After seven months of service in Mexico, Waldron returned back to the United States in October 1916 and was stationed at Eagle Pass, Texas.
He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1911 and graduated four years later as a part of "the class the stars fell on" (59 members of this class became general officers during World World War II).
