Major General Robert Walker Grow (February 14, 1895 – November 3, 1985) was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 6th Armored Division during World War II.

[2] They had two sons, Robert Marshall and Walter Thomas, both attendees of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

April 1917 saw the American entry into World War I and Grow was promoted again, this time to captain, in the National Army on August 5, 1917.

[6] At the time, he was the senior U.S. military attache in Moscow, and portions of his diary fell into Soviet hands and were published in part by Richard Squires, a British defector to East Germany.

Not long after the court-martial, his son, Walter Thomas Grow, was on summer vacation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1953 when a fire started in his bedroom of the family home in Falls Church, Virginia.