European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In for burst of the entire division reviewing Stan full of and commanding general of own each was Ralph on of for across army one was the stubbornness Alert Mies of 1776 and i860 189s arid had witly and stands and now tense face As he up Oral Hiebner the result Happy Winner saluted and the have Flection of i Heiferling in the Huebner chronology for Gen Huebner likes Duck Here Huebner Gen Thomas t Escom Coni Maricar a Gen John display 53 ducks bagged last fall on a Hunt t v country t Lluu Ebizer stary he in pose from private to by Philip Machens the Story of a Kansas farm boy who entered the army in 1910 As a private and retired in 1950 As a Jieu Teriah general is bound to be in More so in Yiew the fac that before he retired he became commanding general of the military Force i standing guard on of Western civilization in Clarence Ralph Huebner was born the 24th of november 1888 near Bushton on the Kansas he grew up in the rigorous discipline of Early and late barn of getting rabbits for dinner from the age of a Stevens of seeing every available cent put to its Best of going to Uncle John Youngs sunday and of working through eight grades by the age of 12 with 21 Sisters and cousins in a one room the reason Why Ralph Rose from Pri vate at a recruiting office to command ing general of uie in Europe possibly Lay in the Slevens or in the enthusiasm of schoolmaster who had acquired and a passionate love for the army Dur ing the Spanish american More probably the reason was an inherited something which seems to come to one american boy in every 40 or 50 and determines him to be a a family dubious of army life steered Ralph through two years of Rural High two business College in grand and five years of office work before they allowed at the age of to join As a but certain it is that from some Point in his childhood until the present Huebner never flickered in his love of the and determination to be a even in is50 he had to be carried so to mumbling unofficially that there must be something wrong with a regulation that throws a general on the Philip a longstanding Friend of general is one of the few correspondents to have covered both Ftp told and i have covered the Man Oce Patlon of France and the Allied occupation of he was twice interned in served As correspondent for the associated press and Baltimore be now betide Mac 8 european news dump at the time when he is and than Ever those years personal Are with their instruction Battles and commands Only a table of dates and even scan show clearly the rigorous training of the six Grade years in the 18th inf the hard years night that led to a the Battles of the first War with a Rise to the command of a the critical fighting and a temporary rank of lieutenant colonel after Oniya eight and a years in the army and less that we years As missioner officer a Long period of being instructed and of instructing then the preparation of men and Materiel for world War ii the command of the 1st inf div from Troina Onward for 18 months across Omaha Beach to the Hurt Gen Forest then command of the v corps on to the end at Pilsen in May no less fascinating As a Story was his leadership of the army in the occupation that few men can be so conscious As is Huebner of the debt they to those who have trained a feeling of obligation and gratitude seems Ever present in his towards the army As a with the manifold opportunities of learning which he has accepted on a Hundred Parade grounds and Fields of Man Euver and m such army schools As Benning and on two occasions in particular during the last months of his command in eur Huebner May have Felt that he was succeeding in his prime duty of creating a Force that would be just As Good when he was and that he had repaid much of his personal debt to the army and the generals who had taught one of these occasions was the award of diplomas to 52 of the 600 men in one of Huebner commands in the summer of were strengthening their skill an knowledge through educational work entirely additional to the Many hundreds of regular army courses Avail this group came from negro units in which general Huebner has always insisted that every of educational Effort is richly fifty of them received High school and two College the other occurred on june Huebner stood on the Pav Rade in an area that had been fortified in had been the in Kneuver ground of Prince limit Regent of in and later of the prussian and and was now under going sixth eign he reviewing the 1st Wirich he handed in on the 33d Andrii Ersary before him two score american Diers stood haps a Little a Little top fright tried for men who knew familiar slogan that will decide the hour of your death arid trifle too immaculately out they were fought of the 1916 these were the men who had shown supreme skill in Carrig that it would never on the Roadside its away in entering fire ranges Ori enemy in Ling a wounded Man put he should i hitting with in setting rup com Muni Catsoris so Captain an iad Yance could a in their bearing was the precise Power Well trained Ratthe age 7 in the i county school he began s Ness course at a College ii which he in this one thorough courses of ing that Rivade any tra Mirie was still Tcori 1903 1910 to Riding v thus after 28 years and 2 bit arid help of purpose of getting he became the v prompted to May 19 1917 of a of Isufi if j j 4 2 lines v in command 1917  front sector on face was blend i 26 Ujj Pride and nervous tension As v191jt t Huebner receives an engraved Gold Book expressing gratitude to american in october 1946 ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the liberation of the stars and stripes