Film and Radio Guide (Oct 1945-Jun 1946)

November, 1 945 FILM AND RADIO GUIDE 29 WHO'S WHO IN AUDIO-VISUAL EDUCATION No. 33: Edword L. Munson, Jr. Edward Lyman Munson, Jr., Chief, Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps., who taught English at West Point from 1937 to 1941, was promoted to the grade of Brigadier General on June 27, 1945. The 40-year-old West Point graduate was born at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, the son of Brigadier General and Mrs. Edward Lyman Munson. He attended schools at various Army installations both here and abroad until his graduation from Western High School, Washington, D. C., in 1921. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree at the United States Military Academy and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry in June, 1926. General Munson was promoted to first lieutenant in March, 1932; to captain in June, 1936; to major (temporary) in January, 1941 ; to lieutenant colonel (temporary) in February, 1942; and to colonel (temporary) in August, 1942. His first assignment was to the Presidio of San Francisco, California, for duty with the 30th Infantry. In August, 1928, he was ordered to Headquarters, Hawaiian Department, Fort Shatter, Hawaii, where he joined the 35th Infantry. He also served with this regiment at Schofield Barracks and Fort Armstrong, Hawaii, from February, 1929 to December, 1930, when he sailed for the United States. Then a first lieutenant, he Edward Lyman Munson, Jr. proceeded to Fort Benning, Georgia, with the 24th Infantry, and in September, 1931, he was detailed to the Infantry School at Fort Benning as a student officer. Upon graduation in 1932, he remained at that station and rejoined the 24th Infantry. He then completed the Tank Course at the Infantry School in May, 1933, and was assigned to Civilian Conservation Corps duty at Redding, California. From June, 1934 until May, 1935 he served with the 30th Infantry at the Presidio of San Francisco, and was again ordered to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, for duty with the 19th Infantry. Returning to the United States, he went to West Point, New York, in 1937, where he was assigned as instructor in the Department of English, later heading the course in Freshman English. He served in this capacity until June, 1941, when he was ordered to Washington and assigned to the Morale Branch. He organized and operated the Army Research Branch of the present Information and Education Division, and later organized and supervised the Army Information Branch of the Information and Education Division. Operations included the organization and establishment of “Yank,” the Army Weekly; Army News Service, Armed Forces Radio Service, and Camp Newspaper Service. He also established and operated a MotionPicture Production Unit for the purpose of producing orientation and information films. This Unit was later transferred to the Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service. He was transferred to the Signal Corps in April, 1944, as Chief of the Army Pictorial Service, which he has operated from that date. His foreign service in this war includes various overseas missions, with temporary duty in the European, North African, Middle-East, and China-BurmaIndia theatres in 1943, as well as a mission to the Pacific Ocean Areas in 1944. General Munson has been a frequent contributor to military publications. He served on a committee of the National Research Council in compiling “Psychology for the Fighting Man” and “Psychology for the Returning Soldier.” His book, “Leadership for the American Soldier,” of which 200,000 copies have been printed, was lauded by Major General E. F. Harding as “the most practical, sanely balanced, and usable treatise