Mueller, Henry
Posted on 15 September, 2021 by in Veterans By Name, M
Lt. Col Henry Meuller ( in 1970 he was a Brig. General) This is being put on computer August 31 2019 by Larry Martin from notes taken by phone.
11-2012 Henry was the G-2 (intelligence officer of the 11th Airborne) during the planning and execution of the “Raid On Los Banos” February 23, 1945. I met Gen. Mueller through a personal friend named Marc Rogers who was POW at Los Banos from 1941-1945 he was also at another POW camp Santo Tomas in the Philippines with his parents.
Gen Mueller knew many famous Generals some from WW II when he was a Lt. Col and some when he was older and a General himself. He knew General Eisenhower when “Ike” was president of Columbia University. He knew Gen. Eichelberger in the Philippines. He saw Gen MacArthur pin on General Wainwright’s fourth star. He also knew General’s Walter Kruger who he said was very methodical he used artillery and air power a lot. He also knew Gen. Eichelberger who would order a bayonet charge (a man who had a definite “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead type of attitude). All of the above men were WW II Generals. The following men were young officers during WW II but became General officer’s later. He knew General’s Maxwell Taylor, Westmoreland, Creighton Abrams, and Ridgeway.
G-1 is Personal, G-2 is Intelligence, G-3 is Operations, G-4 is Supply
Sometime in 2019 he and I talked about Vietnam when he was a full Colonel and Brig. General. I asked him about the term “fragging” which was the intentional murder of a American officer of top enlisted man usually a Sargent by one of our own men. These men were very often “Black’ and usually hated the white establishment and officers. Remember this was during the “Black Power” time and attitude the late 1960 and early 1970s. He told me he had heard of it and knows it happened but it was not talked about very much because of the political repercussions. I have asked many of my WW II Veteran friends about “fragging” they said they had never heard of such a think or never even imagined such a thing possible. I was in the Navy from 1966 to 1970 where I would see it reported on the news but NEVER heard that it was black soldiers killing their white officer’s and NCO’s.