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<em>Doswell Gullatt</em> was born in Simsboro, Louisiana, on 16 August 1898, the son of Lee and Dora Trussell Gullatt of Shreveport, Louisiana. He attended the old Shreveport High School and Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama.</div>
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He was appointed to the Military Academy from Louisiana’s Fourth District and entered on 15 June 1916. One of the youngest in the largest class to enter the Academy up to that time, the fair-haired, pink-cheeked Doswell was soon to be known as “Babe.” Although his athletic interest was football, in which he had excelled in high school, he soon came to the realization that the competition from his older and more experienced classmates, and the demands of the educational curriculum were such that he faced a difficult choice. He settled for an outstanding record in wrestling and fencing, and a scholastic standing which brought him a commission in the Corps of Engineers.</div>
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Following the early graduation of his class on 1 November 1918, Babe embarked upon a diversified and well-balanced military-engineer career. His first assignment, together with all of his engineer classmates, was to the Engineer School, Camp Humphreys (now Fort Belvoir), Virginia, from December 1918 to January 1921. In the summer of 1919, he was on a tour of observation of battlefields and theaters of operations in France, Belgium, and Germany.</div>
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His next station was at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in charge of a survey party at New Braunsfels, Texas. This was followed by his appointment as Professor of Military Science and Tactics, California institute of Technology, and his service there for four years.</div>
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In November 1925 he was assigned to station in Panama where he was in command of the Engineer Depot as Supply Officer. Upon completion of this foreign service tour in 1928, he was transferred to Fort Logan, Colorado, where for four years he commanded Company “F” of the 2d Engineer Regiment.</div>
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In December 1932 he began his first assignment to the civil works activities of the Corps of Engineers, where he became assistant to the District Engineer on River and Harbor work at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He remained there for one year and was then transferred to similar work under the District Engineer, Duluth, Minnesota, for two more years.</div>
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This service was followed by a three-year assignment as Regimental Plans and Training Officer and Intelligence Officer with the 5th Engineer Regiment at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.</div>
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In October 1938 he was again engaged in the civil activities of the corps as assistant to the District Engineer, Providence, Rhode Island. There had been a record-high flood in the Connecticut River Valley and he was stationed at Springfield, Massachusetts, in charge of flood control operations and rehabilitation throughout the valley.</div>
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The following year saw the beginning of an increase in Army strength and Babe, then a major, was ordered to assist in organizing a new Engineer Regiment, the 18th Engineers. As Executive Officer he stayed with the Regiment on maneuvers in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and at its new station at Fort Logan, Colorado. After the regiment was settled there, he was transferred to Boston, Massachusetts, as assistant District Engineer in charge of flood control work in the Merrimac River Valley. Soon thereafter he was ordered to Massena, New York, as assistant to tire District Engineer, St. Lawrence River District, where he was engaged in the design of the St. Lawrence River power and navigation project.</div>
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Finally, in May 1942 Babe reached the goal towards which all young Engineer officers on civil works aspire when, as a lieutenant colonel, he became a District Engineer—at Mobile, Alabama. There he assumed responsibilities, in addition to the normal river and harbor work of the district, for the construction of wartime installations in portions of five southeastern states.</div>
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Babe’s World War II troop service began a year later when in June of 1943 he was ordered to Camp Beale, California, and thence to Winchester, England, in command of the 1106th Engineer Combat Group. In June 1944 he led the 5th Engineer Special Brigade, with the 6th Brigade attached, on the “D” day assault on Omaha Beach. That vital operation, in advance of the landing of the fighting troops, was to clear the beaches of barbed wire and other nhstacles. In September of that year after the successful landings, he became commanding officer of the 5th and 13th Major Ports at Antwerp, Belgium. He remained in command of the 4th Supply Area, Belgium, until his return to the United States for retirement in August 1946,</div>
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Immediately after retirement Babe embarked upon a second distinguished career—that of engineer-executive in civilian life. He first became Vice-President and General Manager of the Houston Industrial Gas Company, Houston, Texas. Within three years he was an independent oil operator and licensed engineer in the state of Texas. He organized his own engineering firm in San Antonio, “Doswell Gullatt and Associates—Consultants, Engineering, Transportation.” In 1950 he became consultant, Association of American Railroads, a position which he continued to hold until final retirement in 1976, During this period of over twenty-five years, Babe traveled extensively throughout the country on problems associated with the development, operation and maintenance of the member railroads.</div>
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On 10 April 1920 at Richmond, Virginia, Babe married Eleanor Baker Olsen, daughter of Charles and Hannah (Benton) Olsen, an old Virginia family. Their marriage was a full Military-Rainbow ceremony, with fourteen classmates attending. Pinkie Lock was best man, and Beers, Dana, Dietrich, Gorlinski, Lovett, Montgomery, Niles, Platte, Fraeger, Schilling, Twitty, Vidal and York were groomsmen and ushers. Their marriage was blessed with two daughters, Gene Bruce Barnes, and May Beth Campbell (now deceased). Babe and Nell moved to Washington, DC in 1956, where Nell still resides. Babe is survived by his wife and daughter Gene, and over the years there have been added to this lovely family six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.</div>
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Babe was a highly motivated officer-engineer-executive, with a down-to-eartb practical mind and the ability to organize any operation. He had all the skills of a journeyman electrician, welder and automotive mechanic —a man always ready to work with his hands, as well as direct the functions of his many business activities. He was a member of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and an active member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce.</div>
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Babe’s decorations include the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star, Presidential Citation, Croix de Guerre with Palm (France), Order of the British Empire, and Order of Leopold I of Belgium.</div>
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<em>—His Family and a Classmate</em></div>