Ernest Graves
Personal Data
Date and Place of Birth: 6 July 1924, New York City
Parents: Colonel Ernest Graves and Lucy Birnie Graves
Marriage: Nancy Herbert Barclay, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 12 May 1951
Children: Ralph Henry, Robert Barclay, William Hooper, Emily Birnie
Career Summary
19411944
Cadet, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
Second lieutenant, 6 June 1944
1944
Basic Officer Course, The Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Control Section, Headquarters, Communications Zone, European Theater of
Operations, Paris, France
First lieutenant, 6 December 1944
19451946
Platoon leader, 1282d Engineer Combat Battalion, England and European Theater
of Operations
Staff Officer, Construction Division, Headquarters, Eighth Army, Yokahama, Japan
Captain, 3 January 1946
19461947
Assembly Company, Engineer Battalion, Manhattan Project, Sandia Base and Los
Alamos, New Mexico
19481949
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Maryland
19491951
Ph.D. in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Major, 25 July 1951
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