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2 unusual facts about Louis A. Merrilat


Louis A. Merrilat

He participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Second Battle of the Marne, and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Vernon Prichard

Throughout his football career at West Point, Prichard's favorite receiver was Louis A. Merrilat from Chicago.


Adolf Philipp

Two Islands (1907); music by Louis A. Hirsch, E. Ray Goetz, Harold Orlob; libretto by Adolf Philipp and Mortimer M. Theise

Clay Blair

Blair criticizes President Harry S. Truman and his Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson, for failing to maintain the military's readiness in the years immediately following World War II.

Greer Post Office

It was designed by New York City based architect Donald G. Anderson, with Louis A. Simon as the supervising architect.

Herbert D. Riley

In the late 1940s he had duty in the Strategic Plans Section of the office of the Chief of Naval Operations and served as an assistant to United States Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal and hus successor Louis A. Johnson, and then was student at the National War College.

John E. Osborn

His father was a lawyer, and his maternal grandfather was a prominent airline industry executive who also worked in the Pentagon and was close to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson.

Lockheed XC-35

The Air Corps brass were so confident in the new technology that they allowed the XC-35 to be used as an executive transport for Louis Johnson, the assistant secretary of war and future Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Craco

Louis A. Craco is a New York City lawyer, partner with the law firm Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, and a former president of the New York City Bar Association

Louis A. DeSimone

John Cardinal Krol later named him coordinator of the Italian Earthquake Relief Fund for Friuli, his work for which earned him the Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government.

He received his episcopal consecration on the following August 12 from Cardinal Krol, with Bishops John Graham and Martin Nicholas Lohmuller serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Louis A. Simon

Simon served as Supervising Architect in the Office of the Supervising Architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1933 until 1939, when the office was moved to the Public Works Administration / Works Progress Administration.

Louis A. Waldman

In the spring of 2008 Waldman was among of a number of scholars who independently identified a painting of the Annunciation in a provincial museum of Hungary, the Móra Ferenc Múzeum in Szeged, as the work of Giorgio Vasari.

In 2007 an international media coup resulted from the claim by Mária Prokopp art historian and Zsuzsanna Wierdl art restorer that a fresco in the Archiepiscopal Castle of Esztergom in Hungary was the work of Sandro Botticelli.

Louis Johnson

Louis A. Johnson (1891–1966), second United States Secretary of Defense, from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950

Reubin Askew

Mike Thompson, who managed the 1970 Republican gubernatorial primary campaign waged by state Representative L. A. "Skip" Bafalis, sat out the general election between Kirk and Askew.

Scott Air Force Base

In early 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson initiated a series of economic measures throughout the armed forces.

Vera Violetta

Vera Violetta was an operetta, with a libretto by Louis Stein and music by Edmund Eysler, additional music by George M. Cohan, Jean Schwartz and Louis A. Hirsch, about the flirtatious wife of a professor.

Yaro Dachniwsky

In 2009, he became the Sports Medicine Development Director at Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago.


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