He was appointed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1948 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949. After the breakout from Normandy, he took command of the Twelfth United States Army Group, which ultimately comprised forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander.Īfter the war, Bradley headed the Veterans Administration. He commanded the First United States Army during the Invasion of Normandy.

After Patton was reassigned, Bradley commanded II Corps in the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Sicily.

He received his first front-line command in Operation Torch, serving under General George S. entrance into World War II, he oversaw the transformation of the 82nd Infantry Division into the first American airborne division. In 1941, he became commander of the United States Army Infantry School.Īfter the U.S. After the war, he taught at West Point and served in other roles before taking a position at the War Department under General George Marshall. Eisenhower as part of ' the class the stars fell on.' During World War I, he guarded copper mines in Montana. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. military's policy-making in the Korean War.īorn in Randolph County, Missouri, he worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. Urn:lcp:bwb_T2-EAC-952:lcpdf:8c3e8883-0d92-41d2-b562-858ab2da53fb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bwb_T2-EAC-952 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2h1xvtsc1s Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9873 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001647 Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.52 Pages 668 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230202000420 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 615 Scandate 20230129125246 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog bwb Scribe3_search_id T2-EAC-952 Tts_version 5.Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:25:48 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40837811 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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