Wendell Blanchard – Colonel, United States Army

Wendell Blanchard was born on 19 September 1902 in Massachusetts and was appointed from that State to the United States Military Academy.  He graduated from West Point with the Class of 1924.

The Colonel served in World War II.  He died in Washington, D.C. on 8 September 1977 and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

20 January 2007:

Thank you very much for your heartening website. Would you please consider adding to the web page of Brigadier General Bruce Palmer, Sr. that his son-in-law and daughter are buried near him – in addition to his son, General Bruce Palmer, Jr.? His daughter is my mother, Marcella Palmer Blanchard, and her husband, Colonel Wendell Blanchard, (4th Armored Division Reserve Command at Bastogne) is my father; their graves are near those of her father, Bruce, Sr., and brother, Bruce Palmer, Jr., and their wives in Section 30.

Thank you in any case!  –Lydia Blanchard

BLANCHARD, WENDELL
Colonel, United States Army

• DATE OF BIRTH: 09/19/1902
• DATE OF DEATH: 09/08/1977
• BURIED AT: SECTION 30  SITE 394-2
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

BLANCHARD, MARCELLA P

• DATE OF BIRTH: 05/14/1906
• DATE OF DEATH: 12/10/1967
• BURIED AT: SECTION 30  SITE 394-2
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
• WIFE OF WENDELL BLANCHARD, COL, USA

Michael Robert Patterson

Michael Robert Patterson was born in Arlington and is the son of a former officer of the US Army. So it was no wonder that sooner or later his interests drew him to American history and especially to American military history. Many of his articles can be found on renowned portals like the New York Times, Washingtonpost or Wikipedia.

Reviewed by: Michael Howard