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William A. Mann
William Abram Mann (31 Juli 1854 – 8 Oktober 1934) adalah seorang perwira jenderal dalam Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat. Ia bertugas sebagai komandan Brigade Infanteri ke-17 dalam Perang Spanyol-Amerika tahun 1898 dan komandan Divisi Infanteri ke-42 ("Divisi Pelangi") pada Perang Dunia I.
Setelah ia pensiun dari penugasan militer, ia menjadi eksekutif di Equitable Trust Company of New York. Ia menetap di Washington D.C., sampai ia wafat pada 8 Oktober 1934. Sebuah kapal pengangkut pasukan (AP-112) yang mengambil nama darinya, diluncurkan pada 1943 dan bertugas dalam Perang Dunia II, Perang Korea dan Perang Vietnam.
Sumber
- U.S. Army Register, published by U.S. Army Adjutant General's Office, 1875
- Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time, Augusta Blanche Berard, 1886, page 50
- U.S. Army Register, published by U.S. Army Adjutant General's Office, 1888, page 266
- Historical Register of the United States Army, by Francis Bernard Heitman, 1890, Volume 1, page 450
- The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, published by Press Publishing Company, 1903, page 407
- Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1903, Volume 1, page 687
- The Tribune Almanac and Political Register, published by the Tribune Association, 1906, Volume XVIII, No. 1, page 1866
- War Department Annual Reports, published by U.S. War Department, 1908, page 113
- Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 1908, Volume 2, page 466
- Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, 1913, Volume LII, page xii
- "Army Promotions, The Outlook, November 25, 1914
- "The General Staff, the North American Review, July 1917, Volume CCVI, page 230
- "New Army Board Named to Consider Relationship Between Department Commanders and Guard, Official U.S. Bulletin, June 28, 1917
- Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, Volume VII, October 1917 to March 1918, page 12
- "Rainbow Division Again in Review," New York Times, October 8, 1917
- "New Commands for Returned Officers," Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1918
- "Gen. Mann to Command Eastern Department," Hartford Courant, January 3, 1918
- "Gen. Mann Goes Into Bank for Overseas," Chicago Tribune, November 24, 1918
- Trust Companies News, Banking Publicity Association of the United States, 1918, volume 27, page 624
- America's Part in the World War, Richard Joseph Beamish and Francis Andrew March 1919, page 586
- Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, by George W. Cullum, 1920, Volume 1, page 203
- Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Albert Bushnell Hart, 1920, page 109
- U.S. Army Register, published by U.S. Army Adjutant General's Office, 1922, page 1198
- "Maj. Gen. W. A. Mann died at 80," New York Times, October 9, 1934
- Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, 1983, page 326
- U.S.S. General W.A. Mann Association web site, http://www.ussgenwamann.org/ Diarsipkan 2009-10-22 di Wayback Machine.
- Maneuver and Firepower: The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades, by John B. Wilson, United States Army Center of Military History, 1998, Chapter 3, end note 31
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