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[12] [13] Patton frequently kept his face in a scowl he referred to as his "war face". [14] He would arrive in a Mercedes and deliver his remarks on a raised platform surrounded by a very large audience seated around the platform and on surrounding hills. Each address was delivered to a major general-led division-sized force of 15,000 or more ...
From left to right, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Major General Terry Allen and Lieutenant General George S. Patton, March 1943 Patton's training was effective, and on 17 March, the U.S. 1st Infantry Division took Gafsa participating in the indecisive Battle of El Guettar , and pushing a German and Italian armored force back twice.
Daniel Morgan (c. 1736 – July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia.One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794.
Oliver Prince Smith (October 26, 1893 – December 25, 1977) was a U.S. Marine four-star general and decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War.He is most noted for commanding the 1st Marine Division during the first year of the Korean War, and notably during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, where he said "Retreat, Hell!
President-elect Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense -- and he is eminently quotable.
General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB (/ ˈ ʃ w ɔːr t s k ɒ f / SHWORTS-kof; 22 August 1934 – 27 December 2012) was a United States Army general.While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War against Ba'athist Iraq.
As it happened, the Battle of Midway, the critical naval battle considered to be the turning point of the War in the Pacific, concluded exactly 6 months after the Pearl Harbor attack. Similar to the above quotation was another quotation: Yamamoto, when once asked his opinion on the war, pessimistically said that the only way for Japan to win ...
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare .