Barney Vogel. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in April 1943, and when IMAC was redesignated III Amphibious Corps under Major General Roy Geiger in April 1944, he participated in the planning and execution of the Bougainville Campaign, Landing on Emirau, Recapture of Guam or Battle of Okinawa. For his service in this capacity, Wade was decorated with the Legion of Merit with Combat "V". Later service Wade returned to the United States in October 1945 and was assigned to the Marine Corps Schools at Marine Base Quantico as officer in charge of the intelligence section. He was subsequently transferred to Washington, D.C., in August 1947 and attached to the Joint Logistic Plans Group within Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, Wade participated in the basic war plans work and also in the staff support for Joint Intelligence Committee, Joint Strategic Plans Committee and Joint Logistics Plans Committee. While served in this assignment, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in August 1949. Colonel Wade was transferred to Hawaii in August 1950 and assigned as assistant intelligence officer of the Fleet Marine Force Pacific under Lieutenant General Lemuel C. Shepherd. However, Korean War brought him to the command of the 1st Marine Regiment in October 1951, when he relieved Colonel Thomas A. Wornham. Wade subsequently led the regiment during the fighting on the East Central Front and later on Western Front and received his second Legion of Merit with Combat "V". He remained in Korea until the beginning of April 1952, when he was ordered back to the United States. During his service in Korea, Wade also received Air Medal and Navy Presidential Unit Citation. Wade subsequently attended National War College in Washington, D.C., and following the graduation in 1953, he remained in Washington, D.C. and was attached to the Headquarters Marine Corps as head of the Plans Branch within Operations and Plans Division there. After two years of service in that capacity, Wade was transferred to Quantico, Virginia, as senior member of the Advanced Research Group. This group of ten colonels for a year to develop recommendations on how to the Marine air-ground task force should evolve structurally to meet the challenges of atomic warfare and new technologies such as helicopters and high-speed aircraft. Another staff assignment came in June 1956, when he was attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,