Donald Angus Davison

Davison graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1915, a member of "The class the stars fell on", that spawned 59 general officers out of a class of 164. Graduating high in his class, he was commissioned into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In May 1941, Davison was sent to Britain to observe British wartime engineering and became the Engineering Officer, U.S. Army Forces British Isles in May 1942, within the Services of Supply, ETO. He participated in the North African Campaign and the China Burma India Theater. Davison held the rank of brigadier general when he died suddenly in India on May 6, 1944,^[1][2] and was posthumously promoted to major general.

Davison Army Airfield in northern Virginia is named for him; the facility is adjacent to Fort Belvoir, fifteen miles (24 km) southwest of Washington, D.C.

• Generals of World War II