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Third Battle of Seoul. Fifth Phase Offensive. UN May–June 1951 counteroffensive. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 1993) was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952–1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953–1955).
Apr 4, 2024 · World War II. Matthew Bunker Ridgway (born March 3, 1895, Fort Monroe [Hampton], Virginia, U.S.—died July 26, 1993, Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a U.S. Army officer who planned and executed the first major airborne assault in U.S. military history with the attack on Sicily in July 1943. A 1917 graduate of the United States ...
Oct 3, 2019 · Korean War: General Matthew Ridgway. Matthew Ridgway (March 3, 1895–July 26, 1993) was a US Army commander who led the United Nations troops in Korea in 1951. He later served as Chief of Staff of the US Army, where he advised against American intervention in Vietnam.
Matthew Ridgway. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway had an unenviable task when he took over as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from General Eisenhower. It was never going to be easy to fill the boots of the universally admired “saviour of Europe,” even for “the man who saved Korea.”.
Ridgway took over the Army's top job, Chief of Staff, a year later. He retired in 1955. Support Provided by: Learn More. General MacArthur had known and thought highly of Ridgway since the early ...
After the war, Ridgway served as the commander of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and deputy Supreme Allied Commander in the region. He married Mary Anthony in 1947. From 1946 to 1948, Ridgway was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Military Staff Committee and chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board.
Mar 4, 2013 · Ridgway’s years at West Point were unremarkable, but—like Eisenhower, who severely injured a knee doing dangerous drills on horseback—Ridgway nearly ended his military career before he could be commissioned, when he hurt his back in a fall from a horse.
