五星上将布雷德利

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Omar Nelson Bradley was born February 12th, 1893 in Clark, Missouri. His dad John Smith Bradley was a schoolteacher. He had a younger brother who died at the age of 2 and his father died when he was only 14. The town Bradley lived in was poor but he got a good education and was a star baseball player for his high school. After high school he got a job at a railroad so he could afford to get into the University of Missouri. His Sunday school Superintendent said he should apply to the United States Military Academy. After placing first in the exams Congressman William M. Rucker got him a appointment to enter West Point.

At West Point Bradley played both baseball and football. Bradley finished 44th in his graduating class of 164 which had many future Generals one being Dwight D. Eisenhower who would also be a future President. His class of 1915 would become known as the Class the Stars fell on.

After graduating from West Point Bradley was a little known Officer for about 25 years. He married Mary Quayle in Columbia, Missouri in the year 1916. They had a daughter in the year 1923 named Elizabeth. During World War One Bradley stayed in the States and guarded copper mines in Montana. After the war Bradley attended classes at Fort Benning and Fort Leavenworth.

In 1938 Bradley was assigned to the War Department General Staff. Chief of Staff of the Army George Marshal made him a Brigadier General and placed him in command of the United States Infantry School. When the United States entered the war Bradley stayed in the States. He was placed in command of the 82nd Division (Soon to be the 82nd Airborne) and was made a temporary Major General in 1942. On his 50th birthday he got word from General Marshal who was sending him into combat to help Eisenhower in Africa. Bradley was finally going into combat.

Omar Bradley was sent as a observer to the Second Corps under Lloyd Fredenthall. When George S. Patton became the new commander of the Second Corps Bradley was made his Deputy Commander who later succeeded Patton and finished off the campaign in North Africa in 1943.

The next big move for the Allies was D-Day. Eisenhower made Bradley Commander of the First Army for the operation. After the landings Bradley launched Operation Cobra the breakout from Normandy. George S. Patton's newly formed Third Army was placed under Bradley's command as the new 12th Army Group which by the end of the war would grow to 1.3 million men with four field armies.

After World War Two Bradley was made the head of the Veterans Administration in August 1945 to February 1948 when he succeeded Eisenhower as Chief of Staff of the Army. In 1949 he became the first ever Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was in for two terms during the Korean war. In 1950 he was promoted by President Truman to General of the Army and Bradley earned his fifth star.

Bradley retired in 1953 after thirty eight years of Military service to his country. He died April 8th, 1981 in New York City, he was 88.

Omar Nelson Bradley was a great American General of the Second World War.

Photo Credit: History Channel

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"The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness."
U.S. Army Gen. Omar Bradley

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indy 发表于 2020-8-14 08:48
"The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of  ...

他是战后才被提拔为五星上将的。

海军的哈尔西也是。