Korean War
General Corley was one of 21 commanders personally requested by General Douglas MacArthur for duty in the Far East shortly after the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
He served as battalion commander of the 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, a segregated regiment composed of black enlisted men and mostly white officers. Corley led his troops in close combat and earned an oak leaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Cross. After Korea Corley served as Chief of the Infantry Branch. Following that tour, he graduated from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania in 1954. He would later serve as director of the Infantry School's Ranger Department at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame in 2003.
Corley would pin on the star of a Brigadier General in July 1962. His last assignment would be as Assistant Division Commander, 2d Infantry Division, Fort Benning, GA. Upon his departure from the US Army Infantry School in June 1960, BG (then COL) Corley was assigned to HQ, US Army Element, SHAPE in Paris with duty in Copenhagen, Denmark with the NATO Land Forces HQ as Deputy Chief of Staff. Upon nomination for promotion to brigadier general, he was reassigned from SHAPE HQ for duty as Assistant Division Commander, 2d Infantry Division, Fort Benning GA. He retired September 30, 1966 and died at the age of 62 on 16 April 1977.
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