Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had contemplated using at least the natural barriers of France's toothless, unreversed Maginot Line, that notion had been blown away by the advances of Lieut. General Omar Bradley's light-footed armies. Wherever the enemy might have planned to form at least a delaying line - the Meuse, the Somme, the Aisne, the Moselle-the barriers had been swept over before he could organize any defense in strength...
...British Armies (Dempsey's Second and Crerar's Canadian First) stayed under the command of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The boss of the American Twelfth Army Group: lean, spectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who thus became responsible directly to Eisenhower for the operations of the First Army of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, the fleet-footed Third Army of Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...thing Eisenhower might well have asked last week was a fourth star for Omar Bradley's helmet. Bradley's new command rated it; Ike Eisenhower knew it had been earned. The victory had been, in great part, a triumph of Bradley's bold tactics. The Eisenhower report did not touch upon anything so touchy as individual credits. Allied teamwork was its theme; and the victory had been, in sum, one of Allied strategy. But the jewel had facets which reflected historic brilliance upon U.S. arms and U.S. generalship...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower took time out when Lieut. Generals Omar N. Bradley and John C. H. Lee came for a conference. He herded them into the morning sunshine, produced a $400 miniature camera, which he said was made in Czechoslovakia and used by Nazi agents, and snapped their picture...
...Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, U.S. First Army Commander; Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, British Second Army Commander; General Montgomery; Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Twelfth Army Group Commander; Lieut. General H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian First Army Commander...