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{{Infobox military person
|name=Haydon L. Boatner
|birth_date= {{birth-date|October 8, 1900}}
|death_date= {{death-date and age|May 29, 1977|October 8, 1900}}
|birth_place=
|death_place=
|placeofburial= [[Arlington National Cemetery]]
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
|image=Haydon Boatner.jpg{{!}}border
|caption= 
|allegiance= {{flagicon|United States}} United States of America
|branch= [[File:United States Department of the Army Seal.svg|20px]] [[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1924–1960
|rank=[[Major general (United States)|Major General]] [[File:US-O8 insignia.svg|30px]]
|commands= 
|battles=[[World War II]]<br />[[Korean War]]
|awards=[[Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)|Distinguished Service Medal]]<br>[[Silver Star]]<br>[[Bronze Star]]<br>[[Legion of Merit]] 
}}
'''Haydon L. Boatner''' (October 8, 1900&nbsp;– May 29, 1977) was a [[United States Army]] [[Major general (United States)|major general]] who served in World War II and the Korean War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hloboatner.htm|title=Haydon LeMaire Boatner, Major General, United States Army|publisher=Arlington Cemetery.net|accessdate=26 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://findingaids.stanford.edu/xtf/view?docId=ead/hoover/reg_332.xml;chunk.id=bioghist-1.7.4;brand=default|title=Register of the Haydon L. Boatner papers 1932-1975|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=26 August 2014}}</ref>

==Early life and family==
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==Education==
From 1919 to 1920 he attended Tulane University, in New Orleans.

==US Army career==
He was commissioned in the Infantry from [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] in 1924.

From 1930 to 1934 he served as Assistant Military Attaché at the American Embassy, Peking and during this time he bacame fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

He graduated from [[United States Army Command and General Staff College|Command and General Staff School]] in 1939. He was appointed as commanding Officer of the forward echelon in [[Burma]] in 1942 and was promoted to Brigadier General in November 1942. He was subsequently Chief of Staff of the [[Chinese Expeditionary Force (Burma)|Chinese Army in Burma]] from 1942 to 1943. He was commanding General of combat troops in northwest Burma from 1943 to 1944 and Chief of Staff of [[Y Force|Chinese Combat Command]] from 1944 to 1945.

From 1948 to 1951 he was Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Commandant of Cadets at A&M College of Texas.

During the Korean War BGEN Boatner served as assistant division commander of the [[2nd Infantry Division (United States)|2nd Infantry Division]]. In May 1952, Lieutenant General [[Mark W. Clark]], commanding gerneral of the [[Eighth United States Army|Eighth Army]] appointed BGEN Boatner to take command of the [[Geoje POW Camp]] and suppress the uprising by Communist POWs. Boatner swifty took control of the situation at Geoje and by June 1952 the camp had been pacified.

His assignments after Korean War included Commanding General of the [[3rd Infantry Division (United States)|3rd Infantry Division]] from December 1954 until October 1955 and [[United States Army Provost Marshal General|Provost Marshall General]] of the U.S. Army from 19 November 1957 until 31 October 1960.

MGEN Boatner retired from the Army in November 1960.

==Death==
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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