Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Manson Hogan
After the war, Sam presided over a war crimes tribunal. He then served as staff judge advocate for the 2nd Armored Division; Chief of Staff, 4th Armored Division; Chief of Staff, 7th Logistics Command, Korea; and advisor to the 40th Armored Division. At the Pentagon, Colonel Sam Hogan became deputy assistant secretary of defense for education. In 1965 he was appointed defense attaché in Quito, Ecuador, and retired in 1968.
Along the way, he attended Columbia Law School, passed the Texas bar, earned a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University, and later settled in Quito
As an avid outdoorsman, he ran a safari company, visiting the Amazon, the highlands and the Pacific coast.
His hobbies included fishing and hunting. Otherwise, Sam cultivated and served his community, family and friends. Sam was married four times.
After 35 years in Ecuador, he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1990 to be closer to his children.
On May 3, 2005, Sam Hogan's life ended tragically due to complications from head trauma suffered in a fall.
He was an 89 year old man in very good physical shape.
He is buried in Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Section 3, Grave 4316-B
Later, he and his command known as Hogans 400 fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
Sam's bravery in battle was well documented.
In December 1941 he was promoted to captain and commanded the regimental reconnaissance company.
Promoted to major in 1942, he became commander of the 3rd battalion before joining the Desert Training Center.
Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he trained at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, before being deployed to the Midlands, England.
He and his battalion crossed the Channel on June 23, 1944. His battalion fought from Normandy to Mortain and the Trouée de Falaise.
In April 1941, he deployed to Camp Beauregard, LA, as an Assistant S-3 of the 33rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division.
Graduate of the United States Military Academy, Class of 1938 Samuel Mason Hogan was born in Corsicana, Texas, on November 15, 1915, the son of Dodge Causey Hogan and Mary Adeline Miller.
He lived, rode, hunted and fished in the lower Rio Grand Valley. Hogan attended Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Schools and Pan American University of Edinburg Junior College) for two years.
His mother encouraged Sam to seek a position at West Point, which he obtained in 1934. He graduated in the top 15% of the class of 38, the first to choose mounted cavalry.
His first assignment at Ft. Brown, Texas, preceded the transfer to Troop F, 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, at the embryonic Armor Center at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. There he later commanded a basic training company. .
