NEW COMMAND TEAM IN KOREA

Under General Ridgway, a new team of field commanders has taken over in Korea. Top members:

Lieut. General John B. Coulter, 59, deputy com mander of the Eighth Army: West Texas Military Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps.

Major General William M. Hoge, 57, commander of IX Corps: West Point, 1916, M.I.T., 1922; with U.S. Army engineers in France during World War I; organized construction of Alcan (Alaska-Canada) highway, 1942; commander 9th Armored Division unit which captured Remagen Bridge, 1945; this week took the post made vacant by the death of Major General Bryant Moore (see above) whom he had succeeded in 1948 as U.S. commander at Trieste.

Major General Charles D. Palmer, 49, commander of ist Cavalry Division: West Point, 1924; chief of staff, 2nd Armored Division and VI Corps in Europe, World War II; division artillery officer, 1st Cavalry Division in Japan and Korea.

Major General Blackshear M. Bryan Jr., 51, commander of 24th Division: West Point, 1922; well-known as a football coach at West Point in the '203; general staff officer in Washington, 1941; provost marshal general, 1945; chief of staff under Ridgway, Caribbean command, 1948.

Major General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, 51, commander of 7th Division: West Point, 1918; pre-World War II service in Hawaii and Philippines; operations officer of II Corps in Africa, 1943; assistant commander, 83rd Division, in Europe; chief of staff, Operation Sandstone (atomic tests), 1947-48; commander, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, 1948.

Brigadier General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division.

Nearly all of the old command teams are back in the U.S. for jobs of first importance: applying battle experience gained in Korea to the training of the expanding Army at home. Major General Hobart Gay, onetime commander of the ist Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Major General Laurence Keiser, former commander of the 2nd Division, will direct the Infantry Replacement Center at Indiantown Gap, Pa. Major General William B. Kean, former commander of the 25th Division, will command the III Corps at Camp Roberts, Calif.

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