Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheered speeches by a glittering array of bigwigs, including General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley. They also heard A.F. of L. President William Green, who stoutly defended organized labor's no-strike record...
...list was Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who took command of the U.S. II Corps for the victorious push in Tunisia. General Bradley was leading a corps of the Seventh Army. Dispatches at the fall of Palermo (see p. 33) identified Major General Geoffrey Keyes as General Patton's deputy commander, and indicated that he might be leading another army corps. Keyes is an old associate of Patton's and an armored-force expert, whose last published command was the 9th Armored Division at Camp Campbell...
...They Did It. T.I.S. was founded on a lesson from World War I: infantry tactics and training must be kept rigorously up to date. Prewar alumni and one time instructors include George Marshall, Omar Bradley, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, many another silver-starred Army name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy...
Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
With captured British and U.S. tanks, freshly swastika-daubed, sprinkled among his two German and one Italian armored divisions, Rommel crossed the border south of Sidi Omar, sent one prong northeast through Sidi Barràni, one prong east and one southeast, jabbing at the British covering forces ahead...