 From 1942 to 1945, Somervell commanded the Army Service Forces, the logistical arm of the United States Army.Brehon Burke Somervell was born on 9 May 1892 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the only child of William Taylor Somervell, a physician, and wife Mary née Burke, a schoolteacher.The two of them opened Belcourt Seminary, a girls' finishing school in Washington, D.C., in 1906.