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Post by deadwoodgultch on Feb 17, 2017 15:18:05 GMT
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Feb 17, 2017 16:16:40 GMT
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Post by dgfred on Feb 17, 2017 16:16:40 GMT
Well... that is deflating.
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Oct 12, 2017 11:44:11 GMT
Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 12, 2017 11:44:11 GMT
Another FYI/ maybe quiz question. Who was the 1st US General killed in Europe during WWII?
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Oct 13, 2017 12:36:12 GMT
Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 13, 2017 12:36:12 GMT
Ok, nobody wants to bite on the quiz question. I was doing a search, on sons and grandsons of ACW officers who served in WWII, The obvious General Miles, General MacArthur, but some would surprise.
Answer to quiz Question. Nathan Bedford Forrest III (April 7, 1905 – June 13, 1943) was a brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was killed in action in Germany during World War II. Forrest was the first American general to be killed in action during the war in Europe. Promoted to brigadier general in 1942, Forrest was serving as chief of staff of the Second Air Force when he flew missions as an observer with the Eighth Air Force in England. He was reported missing in action when the B-17 Flying Fortress he was in, leading a bombing raid on the German submarine yards at Kiel, went down on June 13, 1943. The other members of the squadron reported seeing parachutes, and hoped that the general had survived. However, Forrest was found dead on September 23, 1943, when his body washed up near a seaplane base at Ruegen Island in Germany. He was buried on September 28, 1943, in a small cemetery near Wiek, Rügen. His family was presented his Distinguished Flying Cross, which he was awarded posthumously for staying at the controls of his B-17 bomber while his crew bailed out. The plane exploded before Forrest could bail out. By the time the Seenotdienst (the German air-sea rescue) arrived, only one of the crew was still alive in the water.
Also killed in WWII. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations and commanded the defenses of Alaska early in the war. Following that assignment, he was promoted to command the 10th Army, which conducted the amphibious assault on the Japanese island of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking U.S. military officer lost to enemy fire during World War II.
Some of these families are like the Fords, only the family business was the military. Can you find others?
Regards, Tom
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Oct 13, 2017 13:05:31 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Oct 13, 2017 13:05:31 GMT
Tom, for some reason I missed your post, but if you recall I posted up about the number of American generals killed in WW2, but here they are again;
11 - killed in action 1 - died of wounds 1 - missing in action 4 - died in plane crashes 2 - executed by the Japanese Total: 19
So shall we try and name the eleven killed in action? You have named two in Forest and Buckner, but was McNair a General when he was killed in France in 1944? If so that is three, eight to go.
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Oct 13, 2017 13:12:52 GMT
Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 13, 2017 13:12:52 GMT
Yes, regarding McNair. Regarding your other 8. Try Millard Harmon and Frank Maxwell Andrews. Down to 6. Your turn or maybe someone else can give them to us.
Regards, Tom
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Oct 13, 2017 13:21:41 GMT
Post by deadwoodgultch on Oct 13, 2017 13:21:41 GMT
By the way, Buckner's son William graduated from Hudson High in 1948. This Buckner, however, made his living in Real Estate and investments.
Regards, Tom
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Oct 13, 2017 13:27:51 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Oct 13, 2017 13:27:51 GMT
Just had a go Tom;
General Braun [KIA] Lieutenant General Buckner [KIA] Brigadier General Dalton [KIA] Major General Rose [KIA] ******************** Major General Jackson [KIA] Brigadier General Wharton [KIA] General Easley [KIA] Colonel Darby [KIA] [promoted posthumously]
Major General Patrick [died of wounds]
Lieutenant General McNair [friendly fire] Brigadier General Keerans [MIS]
Brigadier General Pratt [glider crash] Lieutenant General Andrews [plane crash] Brigadier General Barth [plane crash]
Brigadier General O.Fort [executed by the Japs] Brigadier General Lim [executed by the Japs] General Patton [car accident] Major General Roosevelt [heart attack]
*************I have been told that General Rose's helmet is on show at the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox. He was struck by two rounds in the forehead, fired from an Mp40 welded by a Tiger II Tank Commander, when he pulled up behind the tank in his jeep. There are two holes in the front of his helmet, one is a gash near the brim and the other is through one of his two silver major general stars. The star is broken with only one half still there.
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Oct 13, 2017 13:30:03 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Oct 13, 2017 13:30:03 GMT
A couple of US Marine generals also died during the war;
Major General Charles D. Barrett, USMC died accidentally on 8 Oct 1943 in Noumea, New Caledonia, while assigned as Commander I Marine Amphibious Corps [not while at home in the US].
Major General William, H. Rupertus, USMC, died of a heart attack on 25 March, 1945, while Commander of Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:22:56 GMT
Post by Beth on Oct 16, 2017 21:22:56 GMT
I have to admit that I was terribly naive about how many Generals were lost in WWII.
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Post by colt45 on Oct 17, 2017 19:04:44 GMT
Let's don't forget the first general officer killed in WW2, and that was Admiral Kidd at Pearl Harbor.
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Post by yanmacca on Oct 17, 2017 19:53:17 GMT
You are right Colt;
Killed in Action: Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, 07.12.1941 [Pearl Harbor aboard USS Arizona] Rear Admiral Norman Scott, 13.11.1942 [Guadalcanal aboard USS Atlanta] Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan, 13.11.1942 [Guadalcanal aboard USS San Francisco] Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix, 24.11.1943 [Makin aboard USS Liscome Bay] Rear Admiral Theodore Edson Chandler, 07.01.1945 [Lingayen Gulf died of wounds aboard USS Louisville]
Other deaths: Vice Admiral Arthur Leroy Jr. Bristol, 20.04.1942 [Heart attack] Rear Admiral Forrest Betton Royal, 18.06.1945 [Heart attach] Vice Admiral Willis Augustus Jr. Lee, 24.08.1945 [Heart attach] Rear Admiral Robert Henry English, 19.01.1943 [Airplane crash] Rear Admiral Charles Purcell Cecil, 31.07.1944 [Airplane crash] Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon, 05.08.1944 [Suicide] Rear Admiral John Walter Jr. Wilcox, 27.03.1942 [Lost overboard] Rear Admiral Frank Thompson Leighton, 23.11.1943 [Unknown] Rear Admiral Ernest Gregor Small, 26.12.1944 [Unknown]
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