Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, commander of the Twelfth Army Group, can get the weather forecast at any time from his meteorological staff, but he likes to see things for himself. So he keeps three barometers in his headquarters office, jots down the readings twice a day in his notebook...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley well knew that the Germans had bolstered their fortifications and had had time to mass their own guns. As in Normandy, it would take a coordinated attack, by all forces to make a break. Bradley knew that great results are produced only by great battles. This was to be the greatest battle the Americans had fought in Europe. They had superiority: two men to the Germans' one, four guns to one, five tanks to one, several hundred planes...
Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, busily engaged on the German front, was served notice by city officials of his home town, Moberly, Mo., that his 1945 auto license plates were on their way. They had assigned him license No. 1, hoping that the plates would roll into Berlin on the General's jeep before the license expired...
...George Marshall, who is a hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...
...tours about the front the General stops often to talk with the G.I.s. He is always the General, but the G.I.s respect him, as they do Omar Bradley, for a sincere, sympathetic interest in the common soldier. They remember that Hodges was one himself, and honor him for the fact...