Henry William Buse Jr. (April 12, 1912 – October 18, 1988) was a lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. He was Chief of Staff, Headquarters Marine Corps and later commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force Pacific. Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, Buse served as assistant to three former presidents of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Early years Henry W. Buse Jr. was born on April 10, 1912, in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania as the son of Mayor of Ridley Park and employee of Remington Rand, Henry W. Buse and Clara Estelle Tichenor. He graduated from the local high school in summer of 1929 and enrolled at Severn Preparatory school, a preparatory school for the Naval Academy, where he spent one year, before he was admitted to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 1930. He spent the next four years at Annapolis and graduated on May 31, 1934. Buse was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on the same date and sent to the Basic School at Philadelphia Navy Yard for an officers course. After he completed the course in April 1935, he was attached to the Marine detachment aboard the cruiser USS Oklahoma and spent the following year on sea duty. In June 1936, Buse was transferred to Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia, for duty with the 1st Marine Brigade, Fleet Marine Force and remained there until March 1937. He was subsequently ordered to the Marine barracks within Naval Station Pearl Harbor and promoted to first lieutenant in July 1937. World War II In September 1939, Buse has been sent to the Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, which he completed in February 1940. He was subsequently ordered back to Marine Barracks Quantico and assigned as company commander to the 5th Marine Regiment under Colonel Charles D. Barrett. Buse was promoted to captain in July 1940 and sailed with his regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade, to Guantánamo, Cuba, two months later. While in Cuba, Buse was appointed commander of the 1st Division's Scout Company and subsequently returned to Quantico in April 1941. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the 1st Marine Division began preparing for combat deployment. Buse was transferred to the 1st Tank Battalion as its executive officer in April 1942 and promoted to the rank of major one month later. The 1st Marine Division