Background
Jacob Loucks Devers was born in York, Pennsylvania, United States on September 8, 1887. His parents were Philip Devers, a watchmaker and partner in a jewelry store, and Ella Kate Loucks Devers, a homemaker.
Jacob Loucks Devers was born in York, Pennsylvania, United States on September 8, 1887. His parents were Philip Devers, a watchmaker and partner in a jewelry store, and Ella Kate Loucks Devers, a homemaker.
He graduated from West Point in 1909.
When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Devers, then a major general, was chief of the armored forces. He was made a lieutenant general in 1942 and was sent to England in 1943 as commander of U. S. forces in Europe. Early in 1944 he was appointed commanding general of the North African theater of operations. In September he assumed command of the Sixth Army Group, composed of U. S. and French forces, which pursued the Germans in France, Bavaria, and Austria. He was recalled to the states in June 1945 to assume command of the Army Ground Forces and was promoted to full general. He retired in 1949. In 1951 he was military advisor to Frank Graham, the UN mediator in the Kashmir dispute.
On October 11, 1911 Devers married Georgie Hayes Lyon.