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Gulf War. Awards. ( see § Awards and decorations) Colin Luther Powell ( / ˈkoʊlɪn ˈpaʊəl / KOH-lin POW-əl; [1] April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, [2] diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first Black secretary of ...
Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין ; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Sinai War, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new ...
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. Signature. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. KCB ( / ˈʃwɔːrtskɒf / SHWORTS-kof; August 22, 1934 – December 27, 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 . Born in Trenton, New Jersey ...
The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hirohito (Japan), acted as dictators for their respective countries or empires.
John Glenn – first Marine astronaut, first American to orbit the Earth. Opha May Johnson – first woman Marine [ 8] James L. Jones Sr. – commanded the Observer Group, the first amphibious reconnaissance unit in the United States; father of James L. Jones Jr., the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps. Kurt Chew-Een Lee – first Chinese ...
The rank of general (or full general, or four-star general) is the highest rank normally achievable in the U.S. Army. It ranks above lieutenant general ( three-star general) and below General of the Army ( five-star general ). There have been 257 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Army. Of these, 243 achieved that rank while on ...
There have been 75 four-star generalsin the history of the United States Marine Corps. Of these, 57 achieved that rank while on active duty, 17 were promoted upon retirement in recognition of combat citations (1942–1959), and onewas promoted posthumously. Generals entered the Marine Corps via several paths: 30 via Officer Candidates School ...
Paul Giesler – Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South (1941–1943) and Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria (1942–1945). He was also Minister President of Bavaria from 1942, an SA- Obergruppenfuhrer and was named Minister of the Interior in Hitler's will. Herbert Otto Gille – SS- Obergruppenfuhrer; Waffen-SS General.