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- Paul Frailey Yount (9 September 1908 – 28 November 1984) was a United States Army general who served in World War II and the Korean War. He was the Chief of the United States Army Transportation Corps from 1954 to 1958. Yount graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, ranked first in the class of 1930, and obtained a degree from Cornell University. In 1940, he was attached to the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway to learn about railway operations. During World War II he was part of the 1941 US Iranian Mission. In March 1942 he went to the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI), where he headed Base Section No. 1 at Karachi. He returned to Iran in November as commander of the 702nd Railway Grand Division, and took over the running of the Iranian State Railway (ISR) from the British, and increased the volume of supplies delivered over the railway fivefold. In April 1944, he went to India, where as commander of the 705th Railway Grand Division, he ran the Bengal and Assam Railway. During the Korean War he commanded the 2nd Logistical Command. Based at Pusan in South Korea, it provided logistical support for the United Nations forces fighting in Korea. He retired in 1958 and became executive vice president of Consolidated Freightways. (en)
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