Word: alward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 21 distinguished months as full commander in Korea and close to 42 years in the Army as cadet and officer, rugged, flat-flanked General James Alward Van Fleet got the order that all soldiers await when they pass 60: report to Washington preparatory to retirement. His successor as commander of the Eighth Army: Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor...
While waging a successful war against the Communist guerrillas in Greece in 1948, General James Alward Van Fleet also found time to win the friendship of the Greek people. Last week, one year after he had taken over the Korean command from General Ridgway, it was evident that the Korean people have taken to Van Fleet's simple friendliness-and military bluntness-as eagerly as did the Greeks. On the anniversary, some 40,000 drizzle-soaked Koreans lined Seoul's shell-cratered streets, waving flags and shouting "Long live Van Fleet!" as the general passed...
...James Alward Van Fleet...
When Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet arrived in Korea last month to take charge of the Eighth Army, he remarked professionally: "This looks like a good place to fight." Korea is not much like the plains of northern France, where he won his first fame as a combat commander; it is more like mountainous Greece, where as U.S. "adviser" to the Greek army he licked the Red guerrillas. But it is like both in that it is a hard-fought battlefield; and that, as the Army discovered rather late in Van Fleet's career, is the kind...
Name and Rank: James Alward Van Fleet, lieutenant general, U.S. Army...