Colonel Wesley Woodworth Yale (1900 – 2001), was a colonel in the United States Army who commanded Combat Command B, 11th Armored Division, throughout the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, being in General Patton's Third Army. He wrote number of articles on warfare toward the end of his career as a specialist on nuclear strike control, and served as a senior analyst at Stanford Research Institute. Through his campaign in Europe, he captured number of Nazi concentration camps from the Germans.