Major General Douglass Taft Greene (April 23, 1891 – June 16, 1964) was a United States Army officer during World War II.

He was transferred to the 21st Infantry Division at Camp H. Beacom in Calexico, California, from March 16 to April 22, 1917.

On June 17, 1918, he was promoted to Major in the National Army (USA) and became Adjutant of the 162nd Depot Brigade at Camp Pike, Ark.

[4] On August 16, 1944, he assumed command of the 12th Armored Division from Major General Carlos Brewer as they were preparing to leave the United States to enter the European Theater of Operations during World War II, when Brewer was deemed "too old" at age 54 to be an overseas operational combat commander.

[5] Throughout his military career Gen. Greene held several command positions, including service during both World Wars.

[2][5] After retirement from the military he moved back to the Drexel Hill area of Philadelphia and returned to the Drexel Institute, where he was an assistant to the president and chairman of its War Surplus Board, administering the purchase of surplus property for the institute.

Lewis Adams Greene (1920–1987) lived at Cookeville, Tennessee and was the only son not to have a career in the military.

His youngest son Lt. Thomas Patrick Greene (1929–1951), USMA Class of 1950, was killed in action in Korea on February 10, 1951.

He was interred at the West Point Cemetery, where both of his parents, his wife, his oldest and youngest sons are also buried.