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unusual facts about American soldier


Sampson Mathews

Sampson Mathews (c. 1737- January 20, 1807) was an 18th century American soldier, legislator, and college founder in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia.


Shock and awe

The phrase was also suggested by the title of the Toby Keith album Shock'n Y'all, the hit from which was the pro-military "American Soldier".


see also

Alaçatı

George Dilboy (1896–1918), American soldier of Ottoman-Greek descent

Alamia

Juan Alamia (1876–1913), American soldier who fought in the Spanish-American War

Arthur Forrest

Arthur J. Forrest (1896–1964), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Benjamin Alvord

Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I

Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Cathy Scott

In 2011, she wrote the introduction and foreword to military combat photographer Russell Klika's book Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldier.

Charles Justin Bailey

Charles Justin Bailey (June 21, 1859 – September 21, 1946) was an American soldier, born in Tamaqua, Pa. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1880 and in the same year was appointed third lieutenant.

Crowdy

William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 – August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur, theologian, and pastor.

Daniel Turner

Daniel Webster Turner (1877–1969), American soldier and governor of Iowa

David González

David M. Gonzales (1923–1945), American soldier in World War II, Medal of Honor recipient

David Webster

David Kenyon Webster (1922–1961), American soldier, journalist and author

Donald Duncan

Donald W. Duncan (born 1930), American soldier and anti-war activist

Donald Johnston

Donald R. Johnston (1947–1969), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Edward B. Cassatt

Colonel Edward Buchanan Cassatt (August 23, 1869 – January 31, 1922) was an American soldier and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Edwin Lee

Edwin Gray Lee (1836–1870), American soldier and Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War

Elbe Day

Joseph Polowsky, an American soldier who met Soviet troops on Elbe Day, was deeply affected by the experience and devoted much of his life to opposing war.

Fère-en-Tardenois

It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik, a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

Frank Reid

Frank H. Reid (1850–1898), American soldier, teacher, city engineer and vigilante

Führermuseum

In 2010, an album that an American soldier looted from Hitler's home, Berghof, during the war that catalogued artwork Hitler desired for the museum is to be returned to Germany.

George Benjamin

George Benjamin, Jr. (1919–1944), American soldier who fought in the Philippines campaigns of 1944–1945, and received a posthumous Medal of Honor

George Bliss

George N. Bliss (1837–1928), American soldier in the American Civil War

Guide book

Arthur Frommer, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Korean War, used his experience traveling around the Continent as the basis for Europe on $5 a Day (1957), which introduced readers to options for budget travel in Europe.

Henry Chandler

Henry F. Chandler (1835–1906), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Herman Wallace

Herman C. Wallace (1924–1945), American soldier in World War II posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

James Archer

James W. Archer (1828–1908), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Jim Drake

James M. Drake (1837–1913), American soldier who fought in the American Civil War

John Sprague

John W. Sprague (1817–1894), American soldier and railroad executive

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Larry Northern

In August 2005 Northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he drove his pickup truck through the Arlington West display of memorial crosses (each bearing the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq) that had been set up at Camp Casey, the protest site organized by peace activist Cindy Sheehan near the ranch of President George W. Bush near Crawford, Texas.

Luigi Palma di Cesnola

Luigi Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904), an Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist, was born in Rivarolo Canavese, near Turin.

Mark Blandford

Mark Harden Blandford (1826–1902), American soldier, attorney, politician and judge

Michael Ellis

Michael B. Ellis (1894–1937), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Raynham, Massachusetts

Jared C. Monti - Received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in Afghanistan attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier while under fire from enemy insurgents.

Rescorla

Rick Rescorla (1939-2001), retired British and American soldier, and security chief for Morgan Stanley who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Richard Loo

He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles.

Robert Cole

Robert G. Cole (1915–1944), American soldier who received the Medal of Honor

Robert M. Edsel

The two photographic albums were in the possession of heirs to an American soldier stationed in the Berchtesgaden area of Germany in the closing days of World War II.

Rod Langway

Rod Langway was born when his father, an American serviceman, was stationed in Taiwan, and he is the only NHL player to have been born in Republic of China.

Sickle cell trait

For example, in November 2010, Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger of the National Institutes of Health discovered the earliest proof of Sickle-cell disease while looking for the virus of the 1918 flu during the autopsy of an African-American soldier.

Thomas Forsyth

Thomas H. Forsyth (1842–1908), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Tigerland

In the opinion of the average American soldier who came of age during the Peace movement of the 1960s, Vietnam was lost a long time ago.

Van der Voort

Paul Vandervoort (1846-1902), American soldier who served in the Union Army

When Trumpets Fade

This film portrays the actions of an American soldier, David Manning (Ron Eldard), during the World War II Battle of Hürtgen Forest, a battle between the United States Army and German Wehrmacht which took place from September 14, 1944 to February 10, 1945 on the Western Front.

Wild Bill

William Guarnere (born 1923), American soldier in the 101st Airborne during World War II, made famous by the mini-series Band of Brothers

William Grove

William Remsburg Grove (1872–1952), American soldier and winner of the Medal of Honor

William Merrill

William Emery Merrill (1837–1891), American soldier and military engineer

William Reese

James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"

Yount

John P. Yount (1850–1872), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient