Garrison B. Coverdale

Garrison Barkley Coverdale (July 12, 1905, Phoenix, Arizona[1] – June 8, 1988, Columbus, Georgia) was a United States Army Officer.

[2][3][4] Before World War II, Coverdale served as an ROTC instructor at Cornell University from October 1939 to September 1940.

He received a temporary promotion to major in January 1941 and then served as a field artillery training battalion commander at Fort Sill, Oklahoma from August 1941 to July 1942.

Coverdale was captured by the Japanese in 1944, but escaped after three days and was able to return to Allied territory with the aid of Chinese partisans.

Brigadier General Coverdale served as commander of the Tokyo-Yokohama District of the IX Corps from 1954 to 1956 at Hardy Barracks, Tokyo.