Orlando Ward

Orlando Ward (November 4, 1891 - February 4, 1972) was a career United States Army Officer. During World War II, as a major general, he commanded the U.S. 1st Armored Division during Operation Torch (North Africa). He also served as Secretary to Army Chief of Staff George Marshall in the critical years prior to the war and made major contributions to field artillery procedures in the 1930s that, a decade later, made the American field artillery especially effective in World War II.