An image of World War I and World War II Veteran Ulysses S. Grant III, the grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. He was born on July 4, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois and was classmates with Douglas MacArthur at West Point. Ulysses S. Grant III graduated from West Point in 1903, 60 years after his grandfather graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1843.
Grant III inherited his grandfather’s stubborn, unyielding military grit. During his star-studded West Point years, he and roommate Douglas MacArthur were subjected to such severe, relentless hazing by upperclassmen that it triggered a high-profile Congressional investigation into academy cruelty.
