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Jul 26, 2022 · Five-Star General Omar Bradley. (Photo Credit: Bettmann / Getty Images) Omar Bradley was the last man to be awarded the rank of five-star general. He was urged by his Sunday School teacher to apply for the US Military Academy, graduating from West Point in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenhower.
General of the Army (abbreviated as GA) [1] is a five-star general officer rank in the United States Army. It is generally equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in other countries. In the United States, a General of the Army ranks above generals and is equivalent to a fleet admiral and a general of the Air Force. [2]
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Five-Star Generals and Dates of Rank: General of the Army George C. Marshall: December 16, 1944. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: December 18, 1944. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower: December 20, 1944. General of the Army Henry H. Arnold: December 21, 1944.
Ann E. Dunwoody — Wikipedia article on the Army’s first four-star general. Dunwoody becomes first female four-star general — USA Today, Nov. 14, 2008. 4-star general, 5-star grace — CNN, Feb. 13, 2011. 5-Star Generals and Admirals-Arlington National Cemetary website
Five of the nine five-star officers are buried at Arlington National Cemetery: Generals Marshall, Arnold and Bradley, and Admirals Leahy and Halsey. Only three U.S. officers have held a rank higher than General of the Army or Fleet Admiral: John J. Pershing, George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, who hold the rank of General of the Armies.
Five men have held the rank of General of the Army (five star), George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and Henry H. Arnold, who later became the only five-star general in the Air Force. The five-star rank is no longer attainable. In the Navy the top rank is “Admiral” (four star) followed by Vice Admiral ...
General of the Armies of the United States, more commonly referred to as General of the Armies, is the highest military rank in the United States.The rank has been conferred three times: to John J. Pershing in 1919, as a personal accolade for his command of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I; to George Washington in 1976, as a posthumous honor during the United States ...
