Rabu, 23 November 2016

A General for the “Tough Hombres”

A FULL 59 OF THE 164 members of the U.S. Military Academy’s class of 1915 became general officers, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and James Alward Van Fleet. But on June 6, 1944— while Eisenhower and Bradley were leading the D-Day invasion— -Van Fleet was nowhere on the radar screen for promotion to …

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