Background
Vanderveer, Harold C. was born on August 14, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of John Charles and Charlotte Grace (Baird) Vanderveer.
Vanderveer, Harold C. was born on August 14, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of John Charles and Charlotte Grace (Baird) Vanderveer.
Graduate Field Artillery School, 1915, 1920, 1925. Command and General staff schedul, 1926, Army Industrial College, 1934, Army War College, 1935.
Served with United States Marine Corps, 1907-1911. Second in command Lieutenant, Field Artillery, United States Army, 1912, and advanced through the grades to brigadier general, February 1942. Served as major and lieutenant colonel, World War I.
Became artillery officer 9th Army Corps, Fort Lewis, February 1941.
Assigned to 38th Infantry Division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi, February 1942. Commanded Artillery, 5th Infantry Division, in Iceland, United Kingdom, France and Germany after September 1942.
Served with United States Marine Corps, 1907-1911.
Married Margaret Hoyt Manning, January 25, 1930.