General MacArthur with 2 other officers.
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- General MacArthur with 2 other officers.
- Description
- General Douglas MacArthur, General Robert A. McClure and Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink with a group of officers in front of an Air Force plane.
- Date
- August 01, 1950
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- photographs
- Extent
- 25cm x 20cm
- Local Identifier
- 0255-s3-b1-fc-i13
- Subject(s)
- Sink, Robert F. (Robert Frederick), 1905-1965
- United States. Army--Officers
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
- McClure, Robert Alexis, 1897-1957
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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A Photograph of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, General Robert A. McClure, Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink. Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink was born in Lexington, North Carolina and served in both World War II and Korea. General Sink had a distinguished career as a pioneer in the use of airborne warfare. As commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the Army Airborne Corps, he was sent to Europe in 1942. He subsequently participated in the Allied Invasion of Normandy, parachuting under cover of dark before seaborne troops landed. His troops saw action at the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. After World War II, he served as Chief of Staff of the RYUKUS command (1949), assistant commander of the Seventh Infantry Division in Korea (1951), and member of the Joint Airborne Troop Board at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (1954). In 1958, Sink was given command of the Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) and the 18th Airborne. In 1960, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and took command of the U.S. Army in the Caribbean, a post he held until his retirement in 1961 due to poor health. Sink died at Fort Bragg in 1965