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Clifton Bledsoe Cates (August 31, 1893 – June 4, 1970) served as the 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1948 to 1951, holding the rank of a United States Marine Corps four-star general.
Clifton Bledsoe Cates (Tiptonville, 31 agosto 1893 – Annapolis, 4 giugno 1970) è stato un generale statunitense, attivo nel corpo dei Marine durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Arruolatosi nel 1917, prese parte alle ultime battaglie della prima guerra mondiale in Francia, venendo ferito e ricevendo alcune decorazioni.
General Clifton Bledsoe Cates, 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps, was born on 31 August 1893 in Tiptonville, Tennessee. After elementary education in country schools, he was sent to the Missouri Military Academy, where he became an honor student and a four-letter man in sports.
19th Commandant of the Marine Corps. 1 January 1948-31 December 1951. Clifton Bledsoe Cates was born on 31 August 1893 in Tiptonville, Tennessee. Appointed from that same state in the...
General Clifton B. Cates, present Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, as a colonel, commanded the First Marine Regiment in the initial assault on Guadalcanal and led the Fourth Marine...
6 set 2016 · The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps. Cates knew that he and his small band of...
Marines advance “bent over as if forging through a hail storm” on 6 June 1918, in Frank Schoonover’s painting Wheat Field Charge, also known as How Twenty Marines Took Bouresches. Second Lieutenant Clifton Cates led the assault despite being knocked temporarily unconscious when a bullet hit his helmet.
