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George Catlett Marshall Jr. was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children born to George Catlett Marshall and Laura Emily (née Bradford) Marshall. [ 6 ] [ 14 ] Both sides of his family were long from Kentucky , but cherished their Virginia roots. [ 15 ] [
Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or Leuconides (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias, he was entrusted with the main superintendence of Alexander's education in his earlier years, apparently before he became a student of Aristotle.
The American members of the CCS were General George C. Marshall, the United States Army chief of staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark (replaced early in 1942 by Admiral Ernest J. King); and the Chief (later Commanding General) of the Army Air Forces, Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
Admirals Ernest J. King, William D. Leahy, and General George C. Marshall at the White House, 1942.. From 1899, when the Navy's Civil War-era four-star grade was recreated after the Spanish-American War, through 1947, when the Officer Personnel Act defined the post-World War II military establishment, four-star grades evolved along two parallel tracks, one decorative and one functional.
Marshall was born on October 3, 1830, in Warrenton, Virginia, to Alexander John Marshall (1803-1882) and his first wife, the former Maria Rose Taylor (1808-1844). A distant relative of Chief Justice John Marshall, Charles Marshall was also a cousin of World War II General George C. Marshall. His sister Catherine Taylor Marshall (1832-1866 ...
The Marshall Story: A Biography of General George C. Marshall, Prentice-Hall (1951); republished as General Marshall: A Study in Loyalties, William Heinemann, Ltd. London (1952). The Great God Pan: A Biography of the Tramp Played by Charles Chaplin , Heritage House (1952); republished as The Great Charlie , Deutsch (1952).
Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945.
Although her role as a public figure had effectively ended with Marshall's death, she made a handful of public appearances to commemorate his legacy. On September 8, 1960, Katherine and President Dwight D. Eisenhower unveiled a bust of General Marshall at the former Redstone Arsenal, which had been renamed the George C. Marshall Space Flight ...