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General Lucian King Truscott Jr. (January 9, 1895 – September 12, 1965) was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer, who saw distinguished active service during World War II.
Lucian King Truscott IV (born April 11, 1947) is an American writer and journalist. A former staff writer for The Village Voice, he is the author of several military-themed novels including Dress Gray, which was adapted into a 1986 television film of the same name.
Mar 24, 2017 · Unmistakably an old-school cavalryman, Lucian K. Truscott Jr.—here in France in 1944—led troops in Sicily, Italy, and France with aggressive confidence and a relentless will to win. (George Silk/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.)
Mar 29, 2023 · Click to read Lucian Truscott Newsletter, by Lucian K. Truscott IV, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones.
In February 1944, General Lucian Truscott replaced General John P. Lucas in command of the U.S. Army’s VI Corps. Three months later, the corps executed a pivotal role in the breakout from the embattled Anzio beachhead.
Feb 4, 2018 · General Lucian Truscott began the war as a Colonel, but he earned the rank of General after he proved his worth in the field. A Cavalryman from the Start Truscott was born in 1895, in Texas, and initially he didn’t go looking for a career in the Army.
May 31, 2021 · When Gen. Lucian Truscott, commander of the U.S. Fifth Army, spoke at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy on Memorial Day in 1945, he turned his back on the audience, and spoke directly to the nearly 20,000 American soldiers buried there, apologizing to them for their deaths.
