TERRIBLE TERRY ALLEN: Combat General of World War II: The Life of an American Soldier. By Gerald Astor. Ballantine/Presidio Press, $25.95; 375 pp. TERRIBLE is not the right word for Terry de la ...

April 13: Terry Allen Jr. is born, the only son of Major General Terry Allen. The father will gain fame leading the Army's celebrated First Infantry Division during World War II.

Maj. Gen. Terry Allen now in El Paso, has known General Wainwright ever since they were boys at Ft. Sheridan, Ill., where their fathers were stationed.

When Thomas Ricks first learned that Terry Allen, the successful general in charge of the 1st Infantry Division during World War II's Sicily campaign, had been fired, he says, his jaw dropped. "I ...

April 13: Terry Allen Jr. is born, the only son of Major General Terry Allen. The father will gain fame leading the Army's celebrated First Infantry Division during World War II.