Biographical Note
Everett Strait Hughes was born October 21, 1885 in South Dakota and died September 5, 1957. He was a career army officer who served at command posts in the North African and European theatres during World War II. He was a close friend of Gen. George S. Patton and an important adviser to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A West Point graduate, he served in the Philippines and was part of General John J. Pershing's pursuit of Mexican insurgent leader Pancho Villa in 1916.
A captain when the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, Hughes was promoted to colonel when he arrived in France just 18 months later. He served there during the final weeks of the war and remained in Europe until March 1919, as part of U.S. Army’s occupation army.