USMA Class of 1933. Cullum No. 9724. On August 22, 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings Billings in Dover, New Hampshire. The marriage record listed her as divorced. She was born on June 17, 1908, the daughter of Elmer R. Cummings and Lena Meader Cummings, in Woodstock, Oxford County, Maine and died in November 1985 at Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Charles Henry Chase was born on August 14, 1910 in Portland, Maine, the son of Frank Cushing and Lena Ernestine Crocker Chase. He graduated from Deering High School and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1929. He graduated from the USMA on June 13, 1933, above the middle of his class, receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. He was assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment and stationed at Portland Harbor in Maine. Before leaving Portland Harbor for the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning in summer 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings of Locke Mills, Maine. After graduating from the advanced course in June 1937, he was assigned to the 38th Infantry Regiment at Fort Douglas in Utah. After Fort Douglas, he was ordered to the Philippines. His first assignment was with the 2nd Battalion, 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, Petit Barracks, Zamboanga, located on the island of Mindanao. One year later he was reassigned to Fort McKinley on Luzon where the rest of the 57th was located. In September 1941, he left the Philippines on the last troop transport before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When World War II began, he volunteered for parachute training. After completing jump qualifications at Fort Benning in March1942, he joined the 101st Airborne as Executive Officer of the 506th Parachute Infantry. The Regimental Commander was Colonel Robert F. Sink. The regiment became known as the FIVE O SINK and remained together through the Battle of the Bulge. He parachuted with his regiment into the Normandy Beachhead in the dark, early hours of June 6, 1944, hours before the beach assaults. His name is found in the book, A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. He fought with the FIVE O SINK in the snow at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The 506th Parachute Infantry’s World War II History described him as Regimental XO. Fine sense of humor. Ne plus ultra. Soldier, diplomat, gentleman. . . . We’re speaking of only one fellow.
Thirty years later a soldier of the regiment described him as That thread that ran through the unit and bound us together.
One of his officers wrote ...of his many badges and decorations, it seems miraculous that a man who exposed himself as fearlessly and as far forward on the battlefield, as he frequently did, should not wear a Purple Heart.
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, selected him to become his Division G3. He remained in this job through the seizure of Berchtesgaden. He then commanded the 506th Parachute Regiment until it was deactivated in December 1945. Afterwards, he was transferred to the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg for about one year. In January 1947, he began a six-year period in the academic world as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. Next was a three-year assignment as an instructor with the airborne battalion at The Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia. He then attended the Army War College for one year. Last, he spent two years as a faculty member at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In summer 1953 he arrived in Korea in command of the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In May 1954, he became the G2 of Eighth Army, Korea. In October 1954, he was assigned to the Pentagon with the intelligence staff in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In January 1956 he was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division and promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In July 1957 he became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. From 1959 to 1961, he was Chief, United States Military Advisory Group in Cambodia. Weekly truck convoys were fired upon as they brought food, mail and supplies from Saigon to the United States contingent in Phnom Penh causing supplies to be airlifted. In July 1961 he returned to Fort Benning to command the 2d Infantry Division. An intensive training program was implemented to move the Division into a state of combat readiness. In September 1962, General Paul Adams, USMA Class of 1929, Commanding General, United States Strike Command, selected him as his Chief of Staff. In July 1964, he was sent to Fontainebleu, France as Deputy Chief of Staff and acting Chief of Staff, Allied Forces, Central Europe. In December 1966 he arrived at his last active duty job as Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army in Heidelberg, Germany. In April 1967 he became Chief of Staff until his statutory retirement in June 1968 after 39 years of service. His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; Combat Infantryman’s Badge; European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal with four stars for Normandy, Rhineland, Central Europe and Ardennes-Alsace, with arrowheads for the Normandy and Netherlands airborne assaults; Knight Fourth Class Military Order of Wilhelm (Netherlands); Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm; French Croix de Guerre with Palm; Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium); Order of the Military Merit ULCHI with Silver Star (Korea); Distinguished Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster; Belgian Fourragere; Netherlands Orange Lanyard and the Master Parachutist’s Badge with two Stars. After retirement he attended George Washington and earned his Master of Science degree in 1969, with Certificates in several areas including data processing. He moved from Arlington to Satellite Beach, Florida, where he became a Lecturer at Florida Institute of Technology. Later he was a Professor of Management Science through fall semester 1980 when he resigned due to illness. On July 1, 1980, the President of Florida Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Service Award, the second ever awarded to a non-tenured Professor. It reads, In recognition of his dedicated and devoted service in educating the young people of this country.
Dr. F. Robert Searle, Chairman, Graduate Programs, Florida Institute of Technology wrote, General Chase was one of the finest gentlemen and one of the most beloved men on our staff and we have dedicated a conference room to him. He was one of the finest teachers...Students often asked how anyone so kind and soft spoken, so even tempered, could be a combat leader and general in the Army?
His Distinguished Service Award from Florida Institute of Technology is mounted in the conference room dedicated in his honor. He died on March 12, 1981 at 4AM of cancer at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Survivors included his wife Elizabeth of Annapolis, Maryland; one daughter of Georgia; one son of Madison, Mississippi; five grandchildren; one sister, Ernestine Rand [1913-2008] of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Frank G. Chase [1909-1999] of Portland, Maine and Colonel David M. Chase, United States Military Academy, USMA Class of June 1943, of Indiatlantic, Florida.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
Charles Henry Chase was born on August 14, 1910 in Portland, Maine, the son of Frank Cushing and Lena Ernestine Crocker Chase. He graduated from Deering High School and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1929. He graduated from the USMA on June 13, 1933, above the middle of his class, receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. He was assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment and stationed at Portland Harbor in Maine. Before leaving Portland Harbor for the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning in summer 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings of Locke Mills, Maine. After graduating from the advanced course in June 1937, he was assigned to the 38th Infantry Regiment at Fort Douglas in Utah. After Fort Douglas, he was ordered to the Philippines. His first assignment was with the 2nd Battalion, 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, Petit Barracks, Zamboanga, located on the island of Mindanao. One year later he was reassigned to Fort McKinley on Luzon where the rest of the 57th was located. In September 1941, he left the Philippines on the last troop transport before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When World War II began, he volunteered for parachute training. After completing jump qualifications at Fort Benning in March1942, he joined the 101st Airborne as Executive Officer of the 506th Parachute Infantry. The Regimental Commander was Colonel Robert F. Sink. The regiment became known as the FIVE O SINK and remained together through the Battle of the Bulge. He parachuted with his regiment into the Normandy Beachhead in the dark, early hours of June 6, 1944, hours before the beach assaults. His name is found in the book, A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. He fought with the FIVE O SINK in the snow at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The 506th Parachute Infantry’s World War II History described him as Regimental XO. Fine sense of humor. Ne plus ultra. Soldier, diplomat, gentleman. . . . We’re speaking of only one fellow.
Thirty years later a soldier of the regiment described him as That thread that ran through the unit and bound us together.
One of his officers wrote ...of his many badges and decorations, it seems miraculous that a man who exposed himself as fearlessly and as far forward on the battlefield, as he frequently did, should not wear a Purple Heart.
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, selected him to become his Division G3. He remained in this job through the seizure of Berchtesgaden. He then commanded the 506th Parachute Regiment until it was deactivated in December 1945. Afterwards, he was transferred to the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg for about one year. In January 1947, he began a six-year period in the academic world as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. Next was a three-year assignment as an instructor with the airborne battalion at The Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia. He then attended the Army War College for one year. Last, he spent two years as a faculty member at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In summer 1953 he arrived in Korea in command of the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In May 1954, he became the G2 of Eighth Army, Korea. In October 1954, he was assigned to the Pentagon with the intelligence staff in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In January 1956 he was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division and promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In July 1957 he became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. From 1959 to 1961, he was Chief, United States Military Advisory Group in Cambodia. Weekly truck convoys were fired upon as they brought food, mail and supplies from Saigon to the United States contingent in Phnom Penh causing supplies to be airlifted. In July 1961 he returned to Fort Benning to command the 2d Infantry Division. An intensive training program was implemented to move the Division into a state of combat readiness. In September 1962, General Paul Adams, USMA Class of 1929, Commanding General, United States Strike Command, selected him as his Chief of Staff. In July 1964, he was sent to Fontainebleu, France as Deputy Chief of Staff and acting Chief of Staff, Allied Forces, Central Europe. In December 1966 he arrived at his last active duty job as Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army in Heidelberg, Germany. In April 1967 he became Chief of Staff until his statutory retirement in June 1968 after 39 years of service. His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; Combat Infantryman’s Badge; European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal with four stars for Normandy, Rhineland, Central Europe and Ardennes-Alsace, with arrowheads for the Normandy and Netherlands airborne assaults; Knight Fourth Class Military Order of Wilhelm (Netherlands); Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm; French Croix de Guerre with Palm; Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium); Order of the Military Merit ULCHI with Silver Star (Korea); Distinguished Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster; Belgian Fourragere; Netherlands Orange Lanyard and the Master Parachutist’s Badge with two Stars. After retirement he attended George Washington and earned his Master of Science degree in 1969, with Certificates in several areas including data processing. He moved from Arlington to Satellite Beach, Florida, where he became a Lecturer at Florida Institute of Technology. Later he was a Professor of Management Science through fall semester 1980 when he resigned due to illness. On July 1, 1980, the President of Florida Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Service Award, the second ever awarded to a non-tenured Professor. It reads, In recognition of his dedicated and devoted service in educating the young people of this country.
Dr. F. Robert Searle, Chairman, Graduate Programs, Florida Institute of Technology wrote, General Chase was one of the finest gentlemen and one of the most beloved men on our staff and we have dedicated a conference room to him. He was one of the finest teachers...Students often asked how anyone so kind and soft spoken, so even tempered, could be a combat leader and general in the Army?
His Distinguished Service Award from Florida Institute of Technology is mounted in the conference room dedicated in his honor. He died on March 12, 1981 at 4AM of cancer at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Survivors included his wife Elizabeth of Annapolis, Maryland; one daughter of Georgia; one son of Madison, Mississippi; five grandchildren; one sister, Ernestine Rand [1913-2008] of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Frank G. Chase [1909-1999] of Portland, Maine and Colonel David M. Chase, United States Military Academy, USMA Class of June 1943, of Indiatlantic, Florida.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
USMA Class of 1933. Cullum No. 9724. On August 22, 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings Billings in Dover, New Hampshire. The marriage record listed her as divorced. She was born on June 17, 1908, the daughter of Elmer R. Cummings and Lena Meader Cummings, in Woodstock, Oxford County, Maine and died in November 1985 at Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Charles Henry Chase was born on August 14, 1910 in Portland, Maine, the son of Frank Cushing and Lena Ernestine Crocker Chase. He graduated from Deering High School and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1929. He graduated from the USMA on June 13, 1933, above the middle of his class, receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. He was assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment and stationed at Portland Harbor in Maine. Before leaving Portland Harbor for the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning in summer 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings of Locke Mills, Maine. After graduating from the advanced course in June 1937, he was assigned to the 38th Infantry Regiment at Fort Douglas in Utah. After Fort Douglas, he was ordered to the Philippines. His first assignment was with the 2nd Battalion, 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, Petit Barracks, Zamboanga, located on the island of Mindanao. One year later he was reassigned to Fort McKinley on Luzon where the rest of the 57th was located. In September 1941, he left the Philippines on the last troop transport before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When World War II began, he volunteered for parachute training. After completing jump qualifications at Fort Benning in March1942, he joined the 101st Airborne as Executive Officer of the 506th Parachute Infantry. The Regimental Commander was Colonel Robert F. Sink. The regiment became known as the FIVE O SINK and remained together through the Battle of the Bulge. He parachuted with his regiment into the Normandy Beachhead in the dark, early hours of June 6, 1944, hours before the beach assaults. His name is found in the book, A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. He fought with the FIVE O SINK in the snow at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The 506th Parachute Infantry’s World War II History described him as Regimental XO. Fine sense of humor. Ne plus ultra. Soldier, diplomat, gentleman. . . . We’re speaking of only one fellow.
Thirty years later a soldier of the regiment described him as That thread that ran through the unit and bound us together.
One of his officers wrote ...of his many badges and decorations, it seems miraculous that a man who exposed himself as fearlessly and as far forward on the battlefield, as he frequently did, should not wear a Purple Heart.
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, selected him to become his Division G3. He remained in this job through the seizure of Berchtesgaden. He then commanded the 506th Parachute Regiment until it was deactivated in December 1945. Afterwards, he was transferred to the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg for about one year. In January 1947, he began a six-year period in the academic world as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. Next was a three-year assignment as an instructor with the airborne battalion at The Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia. He then attended the Army War College for one year. Last, he spent two years as a faculty member at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In summer 1953 he arrived in Korea in command of the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In May 1954, he became the G2 of Eighth Army, Korea. In October 1954, he was assigned to the Pentagon with the intelligence staff in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In January 1956 he was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division and promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In July 1957 he became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. From 1959 to 1961, he was Chief, United States Military Advisory Group in Cambodia. Weekly truck convoys were fired upon as they brought food, mail and supplies from Saigon to the United States contingent in Phnom Penh causing supplies to be airlifted. In July 1961 he returned to Fort Benning to command the 2d Infantry Division. An intensive training program was implemented to move the Division into a state of combat readiness. In September 1962, General Paul Adams, USMA Class of 1929, Commanding General, United States Strike Command, selected him as his Chief of Staff. In July 1964, he was sent to Fontainebleu, France as Deputy Chief of Staff and acting Chief of Staff, Allied Forces, Central Europe. In December 1966 he arrived at his last active duty job as Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army in Heidelberg, Germany. In April 1967 he became Chief of Staff until his statutory retirement in June 1968 after 39 years of service. His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; Combat Infantryman’s Badge; European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal with four stars for Normandy, Rhineland, Central Europe and Ardennes-Alsace, with arrowheads for the Normandy and Netherlands airborne assaults; Knight Fourth Class Military Order of Wilhelm (Netherlands); Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm; French Croix de Guerre with Palm; Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium); Order of the Military Merit ULCHI with Silver Star (Korea); Distinguished Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster; Belgian Fourragere; Netherlands Orange Lanyard and the Master Parachutist’s Badge with two Stars. After retirement he attended George Washington and earned his Master of Science degree in 1969, with Certificates in several areas including data processing. He moved from Arlington to Satellite Beach, Florida, where he became a Lecturer at Florida Institute of Technology. Later he was a Professor of Management Science through fall semester 1980 when he resigned due to illness. On July 1, 1980, the President of Florida Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Service Award, the second ever awarded to a non-tenured Professor. It reads, In recognition of his dedicated and devoted service in educating the young people of this country.
Dr. F. Robert Searle, Chairman, Graduate Programs, Florida Institute of Technology wrote, General Chase was one of the finest gentlemen and one of the most beloved men on our staff and we have dedicated a conference room to him. He was one of the finest teachers...Students often asked how anyone so kind and soft spoken, so even tempered, could be a combat leader and general in the Army?
His Distinguished Service Award from Florida Institute of Technology is mounted in the conference room dedicated in his honor. He died on March 12, 1981 at 4AM of cancer at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Survivors included his wife Elizabeth of Annapolis, Maryland; one daughter of Georgia; one son of Madison, Mississippi; five grandchildren; one sister, Ernestine Rand [1913-2008] of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Frank G. Chase [1909-1999] of Portland, Maine and Colonel David M. Chase, United States Military Academy, USMA Class of June 1943, of Indiatlantic, Florida.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
Charles Henry Chase was born on August 14, 1910 in Portland, Maine, the son of Frank Cushing and Lena Ernestine Crocker Chase. He graduated from Deering High School and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1929. He graduated from the USMA on June 13, 1933, above the middle of his class, receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. He was assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment and stationed at Portland Harbor in Maine. Before leaving Portland Harbor for the Infantry Advanced Course at Fort Benning in summer 1936, he married Elizabeth Heloise Cummings of Locke Mills, Maine. After graduating from the advanced course in June 1937, he was assigned to the 38th Infantry Regiment at Fort Douglas in Utah. After Fort Douglas, he was ordered to the Philippines. His first assignment was with the 2nd Battalion, 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, Petit Barracks, Zamboanga, located on the island of Mindanao. One year later he was reassigned to Fort McKinley on Luzon where the rest of the 57th was located. In September 1941, he left the Philippines on the last troop transport before the attack on Pearl Harbor. When World War II began, he volunteered for parachute training. After completing jump qualifications at Fort Benning in March1942, he joined the 101st Airborne as Executive Officer of the 506th Parachute Infantry. The Regimental Commander was Colonel Robert F. Sink. The regiment became known as the FIVE O SINK and remained together through the Battle of the Bulge. He parachuted with his regiment into the Normandy Beachhead in the dark, early hours of June 6, 1944, hours before the beach assaults. His name is found in the book, A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan. He fought with the FIVE O SINK in the snow at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The 506th Parachute Infantry’s World War II History described him as Regimental XO. Fine sense of humor. Ne plus ultra. Soldier, diplomat, gentleman. . . . We’re speaking of only one fellow.
Thirty years later a soldier of the regiment described him as That thread that ran through the unit and bound us together.
One of his officers wrote ...of his many badges and decorations, it seems miraculous that a man who exposed himself as fearlessly and as far forward on the battlefield, as he frequently did, should not wear a Purple Heart.
At the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, selected him to become his Division G3. He remained in this job through the seizure of Berchtesgaden. He then commanded the 506th Parachute Regiment until it was deactivated in December 1945. Afterwards, he was transferred to the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg for about one year. In January 1947, he began a six-year period in the academic world as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College. Next was a three-year assignment as an instructor with the airborne battalion at The Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia. He then attended the Army War College for one year. Last, he spent two years as a faculty member at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. In summer 1953 he arrived in Korea in command of the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. In May 1954, he became the G2 of Eighth Army, Korea. In October 1954, he was assigned to the Pentagon with the intelligence staff in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In January 1956 he was assigned as Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division and promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In July 1957 he became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. From 1959 to 1961, he was Chief, United States Military Advisory Group in Cambodia. Weekly truck convoys were fired upon as they brought food, mail and supplies from Saigon to the United States contingent in Phnom Penh causing supplies to be airlifted. In July 1961 he returned to Fort Benning to command the 2d Infantry Division. An intensive training program was implemented to move the Division into a state of combat readiness. In September 1962, General Paul Adams, USMA Class of 1929, Commanding General, United States Strike Command, selected him as his Chief of Staff. In July 1964, he was sent to Fontainebleu, France as Deputy Chief of Staff and acting Chief of Staff, Allied Forces, Central Europe. In December 1966 he arrived at his last active duty job as Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army in Heidelberg, Germany. In April 1967 he became Chief of Staff until his statutory retirement in June 1968 after 39 years of service. His awards included the Distinguished Service Medal; Silver Star Medal; Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster; Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters; Combat Infantryman’s Badge; European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal with four stars for Normandy, Rhineland, Central Europe and Ardennes-Alsace, with arrowheads for the Normandy and Netherlands airborne assaults; Knight Fourth Class Military Order of Wilhelm (Netherlands); Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm; French Croix de Guerre with Palm; Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium); Order of the Military Merit ULCHI with Silver Star (Korea); Distinguished Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster; Belgian Fourragere; Netherlands Orange Lanyard and the Master Parachutist’s Badge with two Stars. After retirement he attended George Washington and earned his Master of Science degree in 1969, with Certificates in several areas including data processing. He moved from Arlington to Satellite Beach, Florida, where he became a Lecturer at Florida Institute of Technology. Later he was a Professor of Management Science through fall semester 1980 when he resigned due to illness. On July 1, 1980, the President of Florida Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Service Award, the second ever awarded to a non-tenured Professor. It reads, In recognition of his dedicated and devoted service in educating the young people of this country.
Dr. F. Robert Searle, Chairman, Graduate Programs, Florida Institute of Technology wrote, General Chase was one of the finest gentlemen and one of the most beloved men on our staff and we have dedicated a conference room to him. He was one of the finest teachers...Students often asked how anyone so kind and soft spoken, so even tempered, could be a combat leader and general in the Army?
His Distinguished Service Award from Florida Institute of Technology is mounted in the conference room dedicated in his honor. He died on March 12, 1981 at 4AM of cancer at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. Survivors included his wife Elizabeth of Annapolis, Maryland; one daughter of Georgia; one son of Madison, Mississippi; five grandchildren; one sister, Ernestine Rand [1913-2008] of Portland, Maine; two brothers, Frank G. Chase [1909-1999] of Portland, Maine and Colonel David M. Chase, United States Military Academy, USMA Class of June 1943, of Indiatlantic, Florida.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
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