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If birth date is BC, set to "b". If birth and death date are BC, set to "bd" or "d". – (optional) gregorian: If Julian dates are used, this parameter is required. The date provided is used for emitting the correct microformat translation of the death date. param 1 (optional) dt
Ann Elizabeth Dunwoody (born 14 January 1953) [2] [3] is a retired general of the United States Army.She was the first woman in United States military and uniformed service history to achieve a four-star officer rank, receiving her fourth star on 14 November 2008.
The Brotherhood of War is a series of novels written by W. E. B. Griffin, about the United States Army from the Second World War through the Vietnam War.The story centers on the careers of four U.S. Army officers who became lieutenants in the closing stages of World War II and the late 1940s.
Donald Norton Yates, Lt. General; helped select June 6, 1944 as the date for D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, in his capacity as chief meteorologist on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff. He chose well—it turned out to be the only day that month the invasion could have been successfully launched—and was subsequently decorated by ...
They married after his graduation from the University of Washington in 1934. She was 17 years old. One daughter (Janet Boyington) took her own life; [35] one son (Gregory Boyington, Jr.) graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1960 and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a lieutenant colonel. His youngest child was Gloria Boyington.
The couple's only child, John Clifford Hodges Lee Jr., was born on 12 July 1918 and would likewise become a career Army officer, serving in World War II and various domestic assignments, ending his career as Colonel leading the Office of Appalachian Studies, and dying in 1975. [9]
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Gordon Maynard Craig (August 1, 1929 – September 10, 1950) was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 10, 1950, during the Battle of Ka-san .