Casper Weinberger

Casper Weinberger

Army

CASPER
WEINBERGER

Aug 18, 1917 - Mar 28, 2006
BIRTHPLACE: San Franciso, CA

SOLDIER DETAILS

HIGHEST RANK: Captain
DIVISION:
Army
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41st Infantry Division
THEATER OF OPERATION:
Pacific
MILITARY HONORS: Bronze Star
HONORED BY: The Eisenhower Foundation

BIOGRAPHY

Caspar Weinberger was a prominent Statesman and Businessman. He sever for three decades most notably as Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Weinberger attended Harvard in 1934 and enlisted in the Army in 1941. His time in the Pacific was spent as a Lt. Sargent in Australia, New Guinea and The Philippines. At the end of the war he served on General McArthur's intelligence staff as a Captain. Courtesy of the legion.org and The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw