LTC Aubry S. Kenworthy

Commanding Officer of the 720th MP Battalion, 8th Army
17 January 1949 to 20 February 1951~ Tokyo, Occupied Japan

LTC Kenworthy received command of the Battalion on 17 January 1949 from MAJ William C. Smith.

He came to the Battalion after commanding the MP Detachment detailed to the International Military (War Crimes) Tribunal for the Far East (IMFTE), in Tokyo, Japan. During his tour the Battalion assets were stationed in the Tokyo metropolitan area performing discipline, law and order duties.

        Typhoon "Kitty" struck the Tokyo area and left considerable damage of of Battalion equipment and facilities at Camp Burness. North Korea, with the backing of the Soviet Union (Russia), attacked South Korea and the Battalion lost C Company when it was redesignated as the X Corps MP Company (Provisional) and sent to South Korea. The Military Police Corps became a permanent branch of the U.S. Army. The Battalion area of operations in Tokyo, approximately 240 square miles, more than doubled with the departure of the 1st Cavalry Division. C Company was reformed with organic personnel and newly assigned staff.

On 20 February 1951 he passed command to LTC Alvin B. Welsch.