Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam...

Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems) and named for General Creighton Abrams. Conceived for modern armored ground warfare, it is one of the heaviest...

1998 to 2002. Abrams was born at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on September 3, 1946, the son of General Creighton Abrams and Julia (Harvey) Abrams. He graduated...

service with the United States Army in 1967. At the urging of General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. Commander, Military Assistance Command Vietnam, at the time...

South Korea. Abrams comes from a family of career military officers. His father was former Army Chief of Staff General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., and both...

Armored Division, commanded by then Lieutenant Colonel Creighton Abrams (the namesake of the M1 Abrams) during World War II. The 37th Armored Regiment (37th...

was a member of a distinguished West Point class that also included Creighton Abrams and Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Westmoreland graduated as First Captain,...

William E. Ward (three awards) James A. Winnefeld Jr. (three awards) Creighton Abrams (two awards) Jeremy M. Boorda (two awards) William A. Brown (two awards)...

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National Security Council, General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy to General Creighton Abrams and commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, stated that...

two delivered XM1 "Abrams" were debuted at a ceremony at Lima Army Tank Plant in Lima, Ohio in February 1980. General Creighton Abrams' widow christened...

to be removed from command in March 1968, succeeded by his deputy Creighton Abrams. On 10 May 1968, peace talks began between the US and North Vietnam...

States John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under Nixon General Creighton Abrams, one of the commanders of military operations in Southeast Asia during...

to the MACV Compound in Huế City.: 9  On 15 February 1968, General Creighton Abrams established MACV forward at Phu Bai to assume direct control of US...

Distinguished Service Cross. He was a friend of future Army chief-of-staff Creighton Abrams. Cohen was born in Woodruff, South Carolina, on October 2, 1916, the...

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of the Army. Nixon planned to appoint Haig as chief of staff over Creighton Abrams, whom he personally disliked, but secretary of defense Melvin Laird...

American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. Creighton Abrams was an U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations...

General William C. Westmoreland in June 1964, followed by General Creighton W. Abrams (July 1968) and General Frederick C. Weyand (June 1972).: 59  MACV...

and Brown, p. 108. Shawcross, pp. 313–315. Chandler, p. 205. General Creighton Abrams, commander of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam dispatched General...

and Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) commander General Creighton Abrams, Colby was part of a leadership group that worked to apply a new approach...

the American and Israeli forces in the Free World and with General Creighton Abrams remarking that 70% of units were on par with the United States Army...

Vietnam at the time of his promotion. He was described by General Creighton Abrams, who commanded all US military operations from 1968 to 1972 in Vietnam...

September 1974, coincidentally on the day his close associate General Creighton W. Abrams died. Military historian Lewis Sorley professed in his biography...

the commander of U.S. Naval forces in Vietnam, and U.S. Army General Creighton Abrams, the overall commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Kerry and the other...

replaced by his deputy, General Creighton W. Abrams. Because of the change in American strategy posed by Vietnamization, Abrams pursued a very different approach...

Total Force Policy was adopted by Chief of Staff of the Army General Creighton Abrams in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and involved treating the three...

soldier of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, wrote a letter to General Creighton Abrams, the new MACV commander. He described an ongoing and routine brutality...

General Creighton Abrams replaced Westmoreland as MACV commander; and William Colby replaced Komer as Abrams' deputy commander for pacification. Abrams called...

hampered soldiers' visibility, but thermal sighting systems onboard the M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradleys allowed gunners to continue to knock out Iraqi targets...