George Van Horn Moseley, Jr. was born in Fort Sam Houston, Texas on January 4, 1905, the son of George Van Horn Moseley and Alice Dodds Moseley. His father, then an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division, later rose to become a Major General and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army during the Hoover Administration. Colonel Moseley grew up on Army posts and in Washington DC, where he graduated from Western High School in 1922. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1927, He subsequently served on various assignments, obtained a Masters Degree, taught English at West Point and served in Tientsin, China as a Company Commander with the 15th Infantry Regiment during the 1930s. He commanded, trained and jumped into Normandy with the 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment[1] on D-Day 1944., Ju