Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another paratrooper to the growing list of airborne officers in the Army's top commands. Others: Major General James M. Gavin, Army representative on the Defense Department's top-level Weapons Evaluation Board; Major General Clovis Byers, G-r on the General Staff; Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, now in command of the Eighth Army in Korea (see Cover...
...Eighth Army wasn't letting the enemy have any rest. Having taken the Communist blow in central Korea and then thrown it back with bloody losses, General Matthew Ridgway's men last week waded in after the retreating...
...want your shoe tied.'' asked Lieut. General Matthew Ridgway...
...Ridgway knelt down and tied the shoe. "Is that too tight?" he asked...
...gesture for a lieutenant general. Hammon and his fellow marines would never forget it. But for Matthew Bunker Ridgway, a soldier who possesses a passionate sense of detail, an instinct for the bonds that unite a commander and his troops, and a nice flair for showmanship, it was no effort at all. A few minutes later the general climbed into his helicopter and whirred off to another sector of his front line...