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2 unusual facts about Frederick M. Franks, Jr.


Into the Storm – On the Ground in Iraq

It is also a partial biography of General Frederick M. Franks, Jr., who is considered to be a military visionary and a distinguished combat commander, famous for having led the Gulf War coalition VII Corps in the highly successful "Left Hook" maneuver against fourteen Iraqi divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard, forcing a retreat with fewer than 100 American casualties lost to enemy action — a feat unmatched in modern warfare.

Jimmie Leach

General Frederick M. Franks, Jr. credits Col. Leach with the critical role in maintaining his Army career and the career of other officers after Franks lost a foot in combat in Vietnam.


Adams George Archibald

This allowed Archibald to run for the riding in a by-election, in which he defeated Liberal Frederick Pearson, 1585 votes to 1230.

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

: Options for Kids in Failing Schools (2004) (with Frederick M. Hess)

Francis Gurry

International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Wolters Kluwer, New York, 2nd edition 2012 (with Frederick M. Abbott and Thomas Cottier), ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7; 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7

“The Evolution of Technology and Markets and the Management of Intellectual Property Rights”, in Frederick M. Abbott and David Gerber (eds.) Public Policy and Global Technology Integration, (Kluwer Law International, London, 1997), ISBN 90-411-0655-3

Fred Ellis

Frederick M. Ellis (1906–1967), American athlete, coach, professor, head football coach at Tufts University (1946–1952)

Frederick Lawrence

Frederick M. Lawrence (born 1955), American legal scholar and President of Brandeis University

Frederick M. Bernthal

In 1978, Bernthal became a legislative assistant to Sen. Howard Baker (RTenn.).

He served there until 1994, when he became president of the Universities Research Association.

Frederick M. Lawrence

Lawrence attended Flower Hill Elementary School, Carrie Palmer Weber Junior High School and Paul D. Schreiber High School, all in Port Washington, New York.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River

On 1 April 1976, Patuxent River's air field was named after pioneering aviator VADM Frederick M. Trapnell, a

Paul W. Franks

Prior to this, Franks received his general education at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and studied classical rabbinic texts at Gateshead Talmudical College.

Richard Mell

In June 2005, Mell and Valeria Richter served as honorary co-chairman of an event for State Representative Jack Franks, a longtime Blagojevich critic who had been rumored as a possible primary challenger to the Governor.

Sharon R. Long

She studied at Harvey Mudd College, Caltech (B.S.) and Yale (Ph.D.) in biochemistry and genetics, and began her research on plants and symbiosis while a postdoc at Frederick M Ausubel's lab in Harvard University.


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