Dr. Hugh Marshall Cole, Ph.D. (European military history, University of Minnesota, 1937; B.A., Wheaton College, 1931), taught military history at the University of Chicago until 1942, when he joined the Army as an intelligence officer. After graduating from the Command and General Staff School he was assigned to the staff of the Third Army during its operations in Europe. At the close of hostilities he became Deputy Theater Historian, European Theater of Operations. From 1946 to 1952 Dr. Cole directed the work of the European Theater Section, Office of the Chief of Military History, and wrote The Lorraine Campaign. He joined the Operations Research Office of The Johns Hopkins University in 1952 and continued his active interest in military history and his service to the Army both as a scholar and as colonel in the US Army Reserve. Dr. Cole held the Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College, 1976–77.