A History of the Commanding Officers at Fort Monmouth ... - CECOM

He returned to Fort Monmouth in June 1948 as Director of the EvansSignal Corps Laboratories, serving until June 1950. Other duties in aSignal Corps capacity followed in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer,U.S. Army Forces Far East in Tokyo, and again in the Office of theChief Signal Officer.In October 1957 General Cassevant returned to Fort Monmouth ascommandant of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School. He thencommanded the post from September 1958 until his retirement fromthe Army in February 1960. General Cassevant died in April 1971.Major General W. Preston CordermanMajor General W. Preston Corderman becamethe nineteenth Commanding Officer of FortMonmouth in June 1957.Corderman was born in Hagerstown,Maryland, in December 1904. He graduatedfrom the U.S. Military Academy in 1926 andwas commissioned a Second Lieutenant inthe Signal Corps.He first came to Fort Monmouth in 1927 forduty with the 51st Signal Battalion and thenMG W. Preston Cordermanattended the Signal School, graduating inJune 1929. For the next decade he served in Signal Corpsassignments at Fort Warren, Wyoming; Field Artillery School, Fort Sill,Oklahoma; Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington, DC; andFort William McKinley, Philippine Islands, finally becoming SignalCorps advisor to the Philippine Government.In 1994, the Central NJChapter of the Retired OfficersAssociation approved theestablishment of a “W. PrestonCorderman LifetimeAchievement Award.”During World War II he wasChief Postal Censor, Office ofCensorship, for a year and inFebruary 1943 assumedcommand of the ArmySecurity Agency at ArlingtonHall, Arlington, Virginia,remaining in the latter postuntil 1946.General Corderman served for two years in the Alaska Command asAssistant Director of Communications, Director of Communications,Commanding Officers at Fort Monmouth