Education
Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College, 1931.
Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1933, 1937.
Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College, 1931.
Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1933, 1937.
He taught at both Macalester College and the University of Chicago until 1942. Cole became a United States. Army officer in 1942. After serving as the chief of foreign area and language studies for the Army Specialized Training Program, he was assigned as a historical officer on the staff of General Patton"s Third Army, with whom he participated in four campaigns in northern Europe.
Subsequently, Cole served as the European Theater deputy historian, and then as theater historian in December 1945.
After leaving military service, he joined the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington and supervised the preparation of the official histories of the United States. Army in northwestern Europe during World World War World War II His own contributions to these works were The Lorraine Campaign (1950) and The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge (1965). Following his work with OCMH, Cole worked as an operations research specialist with the Johns Hopkins University"s Operations Research Office and later with the Research Analysis Corporation.
During 1976-1977, Cole held the Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College. Cole died on June 5, 2005 of peripheral vascular disease in Alexandria, Virginia.
Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College, 1931.