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Lesley James McNair (May 25, 1883 – July 25, 1944) was a senior United States Army officer who served during World War I and World War II. He attained the rank of lieutenant general during his life; he was killed in action during World War II, and received a posthumous promotion to general .
Lesley James McNair ( Verndale, 25 maggio 1883 – Saint-Lô, 25 luglio 1944) è stato un generale statunitense . Biografia. McNair iniziò la carriera militare molto presto.
29 ott 2015 · As Allied bombs rained down from B-17s and B-24s on their own men to open Operation Cobra, a three-star general was visiting the front lines: Commander of Army Ground Forces Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair.
11 set 2017 · US Army soldiers and jeeps on their way to the front lines, Saint-Lô, France, July 1944. The first was on July 24. 1,600 aircraft flew over American heads in poor visibility. Although some were recalled and others declined to release their bombs, it resulted in 25 dead and 131 wounded men.
23 ott 2023 · Mark Calhoun, PhD, Military Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the author of General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army, spells out...
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25 lug 2020 · The 61-year-old was one of the most respected men in the Army, a 1904 West Point graduate who was considered one of the service’s brightest minds and played a significant role in shaping doctrine and training methods. What he didn’t have in World War II, however, was a field command.
While military officers such as Lesley McNair debated the meaning of the army’s experience in the Great War and prepared for the likelihood of another such conflict, much of American society rejected out of hand the idea of American involvement in another European war.
