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Born in Baldwin, Kansas, July 17, 1898.
His family to Sheridan, Wyoming, where he was graduated high school in
1916. He was graduated from the Military Academy, and was commissioned a
second Lieutenant 'It of Infantry on November 1, 1918. He then commanded
the Infantry School at Columbus, Georgia, later served in San Francisco,
California.
In March 1919, General Kendall went with the 27th Infantry to join the
American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia and served at Kharaharovsk,
Posolfskya, Beresevka, and Vladivostok. While serving in Siberia, he
participated in the defense of a sector.
He moved with the 27th Infantry to Manila, Philippine Islands, in March
1920, and the following January was transferred with his regiment to Fort
Shafter, Hawaii.
In March 1922, General Kendall joined the 53rd Infantry at Fort D. A.
Russell, Wyoming. The following June he moved with the 53rd to Fort Logan,
Colorado, where he was named post adjutant and transferred to the 38th
Infantry in July 1924. He was appointed an instructor at the U. S.
Military Academy the following December.
General Kendall entered the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, in
September 1929, and was graduated in June 1930. He then became Professor
of Military Science and Tactics at Western Military and Naval Academy,
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In August 1934, he entered the Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he was graduated in
June 1936. He then joined the 15th Infantry at the American Barracks in
Tientsin, China.
In March 1938, General Kendall was appointed inspector of the Sacramento,
California, District of the Civilian Conservation Corps. In June 1940, he
became chief of the Administrative Personnel Section of the Civilian
Conservation Corps at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, and the
following August was named Secretary of the General Staff of the Ninth
Corps Area at San Francisco and Aide to Major General E. D. Peek. In
November 1942, he became assistant operations officer of the Amphibious
Forces, Pacific Fleet at Camp Elliott in San Diego, California. The
following April he was named assistant chief of staff for operations of
the 85th Infantry Division at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He was appointed
chief of staff of the 85th Infantry Division in July 1942.
General Kendall was assigned as assistant commander of the 88th Infantry
Division at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, in February 1943. The following
November, he accompanied the division overseas and in January 1944, was
slightly wounded in action in Italy. He served as assistant commander of
the 88th until August 1944, when he was named acting commanding general of
the division, which he commanded from August 1944, to July 1945, during
the campaigns of North Apennines and Po Valley.
In July 1945, General Kendall returned to the United States and a month
later assumed command of the Infantry Reserve Training Center at Camp
Roberts, California. In April 1946, he became commanding general of the
2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington.
General Kendall went to Austria in May 1948, and the following month
assumed command of the United States Zone Command at Linz. In June 1950,
he was appointed deputy commander of the U. S. Forces in Austria, with
station at Salzburg. He was named Chief of the Infantry Inspectorate in
the Office of the Chief of the Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia,
in April 1951, and a month later assumed command of the VI Corps at
Camp Atterbury, Indiana. In June 1952, General Kendall was transferred
to the Far East Command where he was subsequently placed in command of I
Corps and promoted to lieutenant general.
General Kendall was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, for
"extraordinary heroism in action" at Posolfskya, Siberia, January 10,
1920, when a detachment of troops under his command captured an armored
train which had attacked them.
General Kendall also has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal,
Legion of Merit, Silver Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star
Medal, and Purple Heart. His foreign decorations include the French Croix
de Guerre (World War I and World War II) and Legion of Honor, the British
Commander Order of Bath, the Italian Cross of St. Maurizio and Lazzero,
and the Czechoslovakian War Cross.
He was promoted to first lieutenant Nov,, 1919. He reverted to the rank of
second lieutenant, December 15, 1922, and was promoted to first
Lieutenant (permanent) February 26, 1923; to captain (permanent) March, 1,
1935; to major (permanent), 1940; to lieutenant colonel (temporary)
September 1941; to colonel (temporary) July 27, 1942; to Lieutenant ant
colonel (permanent) December 11, 1942; to brigadier general (temporary)
March 21, 1943; to general (temporary) January 4, 1945; to brigadier
General (permanent) January 24, 1948, with date of from June 20, 1944; to
major general (permanent) October 9, 1951, with date of rank from July 30
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