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5 unusual facts about Omar Bradley


City of Kansas City

General Omar Bradley, a native Missourian who as a young man had worked on the Wabash, christened the new train.

Clay Blair

He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, A General's Life (1983), published after the general's death.

DeRidder USO Building

Plaques commemorating Generals Bradley, Mark Clark, Eisenhower, Marshall and Patton, along with their pictures, hang on the walls near the entrances of meeting halls named in their honor.

Edmund D. Ellis

Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis (March 1890 - 1995) was a member of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1915 (the class the stars fell on) which included Henry Aurand, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John W. Leonard, Henry Sayler, James Van Fleet, and a number of other famous generals.

Frank T. Hines

Hines served as the administrator of the Veterans Bureau from his appointment by President Harding in 1923 to 1930, then as the first administrator of its successor, the Veteran's Administration, from 1930 to 1945, when President Truman replaced him with Gen. Omar Bradley.


Ivan Konev

This work discusses Konev's taking of Berlin, Prague, his work with Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Stalin, his field meeting with General Omar Bradley and Jascha Heifetz.

Operation Lüttich

On 25 July 1944, following six weeks of attritional warfare along a stalemated front, American forces under General Omar Bradley mounted an attack codenamed Operation Cobra, which broke through the German defenses near Saint-Lô.

Robert J. McDuff

He served on Omar Bradley’s staff in England and helped draft administrative plans for the Invasion of Normandy.

Woodworth political family

Gen. George Van Wyck ("Van") Pope - Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff to Gen. Omar Bradley during the founding of the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, during WWII; descendant of Chicago Mayor James H Woodworth


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