Lieutenant Truscott’s first assignment was to the 17th Cavalry on the U.S.-Mexican border near Douglas, Arizona. This was no doubt what caused him to enlist in the Army Reserves program in which, after two years as a lieutenant, he would become a Regular Army officer. Later, after another family move, he taught in Onapa, Oklahoma.ĭespite his success in achieving a trade, he was restless. By age 16, having lied about his age, he was teaching school at Stella, Oklahoma. The goal was to acquire a teaching certificate. To help his parents support him and his three sisters, he decided that he and his mother would both attend the Summer Normal School at Norman, Oklahoma. Cavalry, an attachment that would last a lifetime. Here, young Truscott came into contact with the U.S.
The Truscott family moved to Oklahoma when the land boom began in 1901. His father heard his screams and saved his life, but that day he earned one of his trademarks, a raspy, gruff voice that one observer called “a rock-crusher.” His choice was a poor one, however, and he swallowed some carbolic acid. His father, Lucian King Truscott, Sr., was a physician in Chatfield and was busy in another room when his son decided to taste something that looked good in his father’s office. The grandson of an immigrant from Cornwall, England, he nearly died at a young age when he was playing in his father’s office.
Although the family soon moved to Oklahoma, he would always claim to be a Texan at heart. The future general began simply enough when he arrived on January 9, 1895, in Chatfield, Texas. What is most desirable, and which instantly sets a man apart, is that his intelligence or talent are balanced by his character or courage.” In North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France, Lucian King Truscott, Jr., proved himself just such a man. In his Maxims of War, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote, “It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
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