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An Army port repair ship, the Thomas F. Farrell Jr., was named in his honor. [55] Peter graduated from West Point in the class of 1950. [56] He served with the Army in the Vietnam War, where he commanded the 6th Battalion, 56th Air Defense Artillery during the Tet Offensive. He retired from the Army in 1978 with the rank of colonel. [57]
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The ship, renamed Thomas F. Farrell Jr., after an engineering officer killed 25 February 1944 at Anzio, began conversion in December, 1943 to an Engineer Port Repair ship manned by a military crew under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [Note 2] The ship did not complete conversion until 30 April 1944 and did not sail for Europe until late ...
In late 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, U.S. Army intelligence officer First Lieutenant Thomas Hart (Farrell) is captured by German forces. While interrogating Hart, the Germans coerce him to divulge intelligence by taking away his boots, causing his feet to become frostbitten and badly injured, and leaving him, naked, in a very cold cell.
General Farrell may refer to: Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1887–1980), Argentine general and de facto president of Argentina from 1944 to 1946; Francis William Farrell (1900—1981), U.S. Army lieutenant general; Sean M. Farrell (fl. 1990s–2020s), U.S. Air Force major general; Thomas Farrell (United States Army officer) (1891–1967), U.S ...
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
English: USAPRS Thomas F. Farrell, Jr. underway off the East Coast of the United States, 26 August 1944. US National Archives photo # 80-G-420158 RG-80-G, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
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