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    General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 1993) was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe...
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    was replaced by Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, whom MacArthur had selected in case of such an eventuality. Ridgway noted that MacArthur's "prestige...
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    acting commander of the Hawaiian Department. Ridgway was the father of General Matthew Ridgway. Thomas Ridgway was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 18...
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    lieutenant in the Infantry Branch. He graduated alongside young men such as Matthew Ridgway, J. Lawton Collins, (both of whom later became U.S. Army Chief of Staff)...
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    S. Truman; MacArthur was succeeded as supreme commander by General Matthew Ridgway in 1951. Unlike in the occupations of Germany and Austria, the Soviet...
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    jeep accident on 23 December 1950, and replaced by Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway. The overstretched Eighth Army suffered heavily with the Chinese offensive...
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    battle and the wider Second Phase Offensive. With Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway assuming command of the Eighth Army on 26 December, the PVA and the...
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    without seeing service during World War I—succeeding his former mentor, Matthew B. Ridgway. During his tenure, Taylor attempted to guide the service into the...
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    on 11 April 1951, after which he was succeeded as SCAP by General Matthew Ridgway. The San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed on 8 September 1951, marked...
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    82nd Airborne Division. Command of the 82nd went to Major General Matthew Ridgway. Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair's influence led to the division's...
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    O'Daniel to Vietnam to assess the French forces there. Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway dissuaded the President from intervening by presenting a comprehensive...
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    communists marched in protest against a visit by American General Matthew Ridgway. The communists accused him of using biological weapons in the Korean...
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    Airborne Division and Bradley relinquished command to Major General Matthew Ridgway, who had been his assistant division commander (ADC). Bradley then...
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    Rector Stephen C. Reich Rick Rescorla Robert B. Rheault Karl W. Richter Matthew Ridgway (two awards) Antonio Rodríguez Balinas Pedro Rodriguez (two awards)...
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  • United States Army, after only Douglas MacArthur, and succeeded General Matthew Ridgway as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR) serving from...
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    Italy During the course of the war, UNC was led by Douglas MacArthur, Matthew B. Ridgway, and Mark Wayne Clark. After the armistice was signed, John E. Hull...
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    His classmates included several future general officers, including Matthew Ridgway, Bryant Moore, Ernest N. Harmon, William C. McMahon, Norman Cota, Laurence...
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    stabilization of a coherent UN defensive line under Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway did the "period of headlong retreats from an attacking, unsuspected...
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    memory, Dr Jean Masselin (the mayor of Sainte-Mère-Église), General Matthew Ridgway (Commanding General of the 82nd in 1944) and General James M. Gavin...
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    support of the war effort, usually paying his own travel expenses. Gen. Matthew Ridgway later recalled that York "created in the minds of farm boys and clerks ...
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    Nations (UN) military operation conceived by the US Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway, during the Korean War. The operation was intended to destroy as much...
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    Allied invasion of Normandy, as part of VII Corps. Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, a highly experienced airborne commander who had led the 82nd Airborne...
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    Fortunate Son Ernie Pyle, WWI US Naval Reserve, WWII war correspondent Matthew Ridgway, Army general, Chief of Staff, United States Army Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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  • Livzey Ridgway (1859–1947), American scientific illustrator Keith Ridgway (born 1965), Irish author Linda Ridgway (born 1947), American artist Matthew Ridgway...
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  • averted with emergency aid provided by North Korea's allies. General Matthew Ridgway said that except for air power, "the war would have been over in 60...
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    1951 30 May 1952 1 year, 58 days  United States Army 2 Ridgway, MatthewGeneral Matthew Ridgway (1895–1993) 30 May 1952 11 July 1953 1 year, 42 days  United...
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    which two regiments of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division (Major General Matthew Ridgway) would seize and hold crossings over the Volturno River. This was at...
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    the invasion. The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, under Major General Matthew Ridgway, would land in support of the Seventh Army, while the British 1st Airborne...
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    was General Douglas MacArthur, who was then succeeded by Generals Matthew Ridgway and Mark Clark. Later commanders were Generals John E. Hull, Maxwell...
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    lasted from 20 February to 6 March 1951 and was formulated by General Matthew Ridgway with the goal of annihilating enemy forces south of a line designated...
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