Haydon L. Boatner

Haydon L. Boatner (October 8, 1900 – May 29, 1977) was a United States Army major general who served in World War II and the Korean War.

Education
From 1919-1920 he attended Tulane University, in New Orleans.

US Army career
He was commissioned in the Infantry from West Point in 1924.

From 1930-1934 he served as Assistant Military Attaché at the American Embassy, Peking and during this time he bacame fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

He graduated from Command and General Staff School in 1939. He was appointed as commanding Officer of the forward echelon in Burma in 1942 and was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1942. He was subsequently Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army in Burma from 1942-1943. He was commanding General of combat troops in northwest Burma from 1943-1944 and Chief of Staff of Chinese Combat Command from 1944-1945.

From 1948-1951 he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Commandant of Cadets at A&M College of Texas.

During the Korean War BGEN Boatner served as assistant division commander of the 2nd Infantry Division. In May 1952, Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, commanding gerneral of the Eighth Army appointed BGEN Boatner to take command of the Geoje POW Camp and suppress the uprising by Communist POWs. Boatner swifty took control of the situation at Geoje and by June 1952 the camp had been pacified.

His assignments after Korean War included Commanding General of the 3rd Infantry Division from December 1954 until October 1955 and Provost Marshall General of the U.S. Army from 19 November 1957 until 31 October 1960.

MGEN Boatner retired from the Army in November 1960.

Death
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.