Horace L. McBride

Horace L. McBride
Born	June 29, 1894 Madison, Nebraska, United States
Died	November 14, 1962 (aged 68) Orlando, Florida, United States
Buried	Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, United States
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1916–1954
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Field Artillery Branch
Commands held	80th Infantry Division XX Corps 9th Infantry Division Caribbean Command United States Army Command and General Staff College
Battles/wars	World War I World War II

Lieutenant General Horace Logan McBride (June 29, 1894 – November 14, 1962) was a senior United States Army officer who fought during both World War I and World War II. He commanded American forces in the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), the Rhineland, and Central Europe during that conflict.

He attended the University of Nebraska from 1910 to 1911, and then attended and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1916. On commissioning as a second lieutenant into the Field Artillery Branch, he served as a battery commander in the 347th Field Artillery Regiment in World War I with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) under General John Joseph Pershing. He served on the Western Front, taking part in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive towards the end of 1918.

He remained in the army after the war, serving as Assistant Military Attaché at The Hague, Belgium, and then in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. McBride was Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Yale University from 1923 until 1927. In 1928 he attended and graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was an instructor at the Field Artillery School from 1928 to 1932, then served in the Philippines from 1932 until 1935. After graduating from the Army War College in 1936, he served as an instructor at the Command and General Staff College from 1936 until 1940. He was stationed at the Panama Canal Zone from 1940 to 1942.

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