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Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, II Corps commander, consults with staff members. Bradley assumed command of II Corps, his first combat command, in April 1943 and led it through the rest of the North...
"The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy" is General Omar Bradley's famous rebuke in his May 15, 1951 Congressional testimony as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the idea of extending the Korean War into China, as proposed by General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the U.N. forces in Korea ...
Apr 2, 2019 · General of the Army Omar N. Bradley was a key American commander during World War II and later served as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Graduating from West Point in 1915, he served stateside during World War I before advancing through the ranks during the interwar years.
Military.com. Published January 12, 2017. Omar Nelson Bradley was born in Clark, Missouri, on Feb. 12, 1893, to John Smith Bradley and Sarah Elizabeth Bradley. He was appointed to the U.S....
Omar Bradley was born in the farming village of Clark, Missouri, on 12 February 1893. His parents were poor, his boyhood austere. The US Military Academy appealed to Bradley as a means to an education without financial burden for his family. He received an appointment and graduated in 1915, ranking forty-fourth out of 164.
Nov 9, 2019 · His father, John Bradley, died in 1908, when Omar was 15 years old. Bradley’s mother, Mary Hubbard, moved both of them from Higbee to Moberly for three years while Bradley attended Moberly High ...
Apr 10, 1981 · Omar N. Bradley was a peculiarly American military hero. There was about him some of the salt tang of the nation's youth, a faint echo of the frontier. That tall, lank figure would not have...
