ID this General and his Jacket

[SuinBruin]

I think I may have it -- Gen. Lewis Pick. The white hair and nose match. Check out this poster of him wearing a B-10.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/General-L ... 23519_.htm

Also in the back here, similar angle with the garrison cap.
http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cb ... rl/p1b.jpg

More info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Pick

 

[Roughwear]

I think you could be right. Pick does seem the strongest candidate of all the ones mentioned in the thread. Do we know when he was awarded his first star? He still a colonel in 1943. I'm guessing 1944.

 

[monk]

It's Pick. WiKipedia has a picture of him with the same cane.

 

[SuinBruin]

Yup, here's a link to a shot with the cane and the B-10.
http://ledoroad.home.comcast.net/~ledor ... eroad.html

Here's another one with the cane (and, coincidentally, Chennault).
http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=9395

 

[watchmanjimg]

Damn! I was thinking Pick yesterday afternoon but for some reason I ruled him out. Great research, Matt!

 

[unclegrumpy]

I agree, you nailed it! Nice job sorting this one out.

 

[SuinBruin]

Thanks guys, but this was a team effort. I was looking up info on Gen. Covell based on Ties's post and came across some references to Pick that IDed him as a brigadier in the CBI. A couple of google searches later and there you go.

 

[saunders]

That's the general! Superb.

 

[saunders]

I think I may have it -- Gen. Lewis Pick. The white hair and nose match. Check out this poster of him wearing a B-10.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/General-L ... 23519_.htm

Also in the back here, similar angle with the garrison cap.
http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cb ... rl/p1b.jpg

More info here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Pick

That photo of him wearing the wool cap with general's star is priceless. Patton would have been sent into a whirling dervish if he saw that! And would have had had Pick writing on the blackboard ... :lol: