Gerald Clark Brant

Background

Brant, Gerald Clark was born on June 29, 1880 in Chariton, Iowa, United States. Son of Clark Thompson and Sarah Ellen (Matson) Brant.

Education

Graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1904, School of the Lincolnshire, 1921, General staff schedul, 1922, Army War College, 1923.

Career

Commissioned Second lieutenant cavalry, 1904, and promoted through all grades to major general, 1941. Commandant Pennsylvania Military College, 1911-1913. Served on Mexican border, later in Philippines, 1913-1917.

Transferred to air service, 1917.

Chief of operations and assistant director military aeronautics, 1918. War Department General Staff, 1923-1927.

Executive officer to assistant secretary of war, 1927. Commanding officer 18th Wing Air Corps, 1930-1934.

Commanding general 3d Wing, Air Force, 1935-1937, 2d Wing, Air Force, 1937-1938.

Commandant Air Corps Tehcnical Schools, 1938-1940. Commanding general Gulf Coast Training Center, 1940-1941. Commanding Newfoundland base, 1941-1943.

Commanding general, Air Force Gulf Coast Training Center from January 1943.

Retired May 1944.

Achievements

• Gerald Clark Brant has been listed as a noteworthy army officer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Legion. Clubs: Army and Navy, Bohemian, Camp Fire (New York).

Connections

Married Ethel Cushing, June 18, 1904 (divorced 1927). Married second, Elizabeth Daingerfield Jackson, May 25, 1928. Children: Gerald Clark, Virginia Cushing Freeman, Philip Delano.

Father:

Clark Thompson Brant

Mother:

Sarah Ellen (Matson) Brant

Spouse:

Elizabeth Daingerfield Jackson

Spouse:

Ethel Cushing

child:

Philip Delano Brant

child:

Virginia Cushing Freeman Brant

child:

Gerald Clark Brant