Background
Allen Wyant Gullion was born on December 14, 1880 in the town of Carrollton, Kentucky as the son of Atha Hanks and Edmund A. Gulllon.
Allen Wyant Gullion was born on December 14, 1880 in the town of Carrollton, Kentucky as the son of Atha Hanks and Edmund A. Gulllon.
He attended the Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and subsequently United States Military Academy at West Point, New New York He graduated from the West Point in the class of 1905 and was commissioned a Second lieutenant on that time.
Gullion subsequently saw service during Moro Rebellion in Philippines. Gullion received the law degree at the University of Kentucky in 1914. During Pancho Villa Expedition, Gullion served with the 2nd Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916.
He was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant Colonel during World War I and was assigned to the Office of the Provost Marshal, where he served as a Chief of Mobilization Division.
In 1918, Gullion was transferred to the France, where he served within II Corps as a Judge Advocate. In 1919, Gullion was transferred back to the United States and was appointed the legal adviser of major general Robert Lee Bullard on Governors Island.
He served as a prosecuting attorney in the court martial of Colonel William L. Mitchell During, Gullion was appointed the United States. Army Provost Marshal in 1941. Gullion served in this capacity until 1944, where he was succeeded by Major General Archer L. Lerch.
Gullion was a prime mover in the efforts to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry in camps in the wake of the hysteria resulting from the Pearl Harbor attack.
Gullion was subsequently attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. In 1943, the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated Gullion for his part in forming an extra-military organization known as the SGs, intended "to save America from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radical labor, the Communists, the Jews, and the colored race." Within months, however, poor health and age were cited for the major general"s retirement in 1944. Major general Allen Wyant Gullion died on June 19, 1946 at the age of 65 years in Washington District of Columbia Major general Gullion was portrayed on screen by actor Rod Steiger in the 1955 picture The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell.