Word: gaffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack division has had three crack commanders. First was doughty, 57-year-old Major General John S. Wood, who took a pounding as his tank bumped over Brittany, then rumbled 400 miles across France. Patton's grey-haired, hard-as-nails chief of staff, Major General Hugh S. Gaffey, took it over in December. Soon after the Rhine crossings, Gaffey was made a corps commander. Now the 4th is run by dark, handsome Brigadier General William Hoge, who seized the Remagen bridge intact while he was with the First Army, then captured whole the Main River bridge at Aschaffenburg...
...Moselle, upriver from Coblenz, Lieut. General George S. Patton's 5th and goth Divisions had carved out substantial bridgeheads on the south bank. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's crack 4th Armored Division poured through, shot south into the Hunsrück plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...
Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army was going strong. So were the battle-famed 1st Infantry Division and other outfits of the First Army. They bore the scars of the Battle of the Bulge and were out for meat. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's 4th Armored Division (Third Army)* had been given a task of exploiting to do after the Kyll River had been bridged near Trier. Its tankmen and motorized infantrymen were given rations for ten days, ordered to pour on the coal and get to the Rhine...
...divisional commaders, one of the highest-rated soldiers of the U.S. Army is Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, an artillery specialist turned leader of the 2nd Armored Division. Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the 82nd, first U.S. airborne division to strike the enemy, is a strapping six-footer who made a reputation as G-3 (operations) officer in the Second Army maneuvers...
Bradley, Keyes, Allen and Ridgway went to West Point. Gaffey and Truscott entered the Army as reserve officers in 1917. Middleton began as an infantry private in 1910, and eight years later, because of outstanding leadership in battle, was a full colonel and the youngest regimental commander in the Regular Army...