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MG Fosterserved in WorldWar II, Korea,and Vietnam.Duty overseas in World War II included the560th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion inNorth Africa and Sicily. Other assignmentsincluded Signal Section of AlliedHeadquarters in Algiers, Fifth Army in Italy,and 53d Signal Battalion.Postwar Signal Corps duty assignments included Camp Crowder,Missouri, commander of the 63d Signal Battalion in Austria, and theArmy Electronics Proving Ground, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.General Foster returned to Fort Monmouth for three years betweenJune 1962 and June 1965 as project manager for Universal IntegratedCommunications/Strategic Army Communications. He served assignal officer of the United Nations Command and Assistant Chief ofStaff, Communications-Electronics, Eighth Army, Korea, from 1965-1967; and commanded the newly created U.S. Army CommunicationsSystems Agency from July 1967 to August 1969.General Foster served in Vietnam as commander of the 1st SignalBrigade before returning to Fort Monmouth as Commander.He retired from the U.S. Army in September 1975.Major General Walter E. Lotz, Jr.(Then) Major General Walter E. Lotz, Jr. became the twenty-fifthCommanding Officer of Fort Monmouth and the fourth CommandingGeneral of ECOM in September 1969.Lotz was born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania,in August 1916. He graduated from the U.S.Military Academy in 1938 and was commissioneda Second Lieutenant, Signal Corps.His first assignment was with the 51st SignalBattalion at Fort Monmouth.He attended the Signal School, graduating inFebruary 1941, and joined the 1st SignalOperations Company (Aircraft Warning) intraining, here. He left in June 1941 with thatunit for duty in Iceland.MG Walter E. Lotz, Jr.Commanding Officers at Fort Monmouth
During World War II Lotz served with the Ninth Air Force, later redesignatedthe XII Tactical Air Command, in the European Theater ofOperations as assistant director of communications.Lotz returned to Fort Monmouth for three years (1947-1950) as chiefof the Meteorological Department at Evans Laboratory, and laterbecame deputy director of the Laboratory. He became the first deputyCommanding General of ECOM, serving from August 1962 toOctober 1963.He served in Vietnam as Assistant Chief of Staff, Communications-Electronics, Military Assistance Command, from September 1966 toJanuary 1968. General Lotz served as Commanding General at theU.S. Army Strategic Communications Command at Fort Huachuca,Arizona, from January 1968 to September 1969. He returned to FortMonmouth as Commander from September 1969 to May 1971, whenhe was nominated for promotion to Lieutenant General and assignedto NATO Headquarters in Brussels.General Lotz retired from the U.S. Army in August 1974.General’s Lotz’s wife, Shirley, was the daughter of Roger B.Colton, a retired Major General and former director of theSignal Corps Laboratories, here. Colton made the landmarkdecision to use frequency modulation (FM) as opposed toamplitude modulation (AM) in military radios and oversawthe completion of the SCR-268 practical radar system.Major General William B. LattaMajor General William B. Latta became thetwenty-fourth Commanding Officer of FortMonmouth and the third CommandingGeneral of ECOM in October 1965.MG William B. LattaLatta was born in El Paso, Texas, in October1914. He graduated from the U.S. MilitaryAcademy in 1938 and was commissioned aSecond Lieutenant, Signal Corps. His firstassignment was with the 51st Signal Battalionat Fort Monmouth. He left in September 1939for duty at Fort Sam Houston, but returned to17/18 .
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