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Matthew B. Ridgway is the only man I know of to have commanded three of the unified commands created as a result of the National Security Act of 1947: the Caribbean Command, the Far East Command, and the European Command. He was single-handedly the man who made the Allied military command structure work during the Cold War, first on the battlefields of Korea and then in Europe. He re-oriented ...
21. Juli 2017 · Matthew B. Ridgway, who brought a beaten Eighth Army back from disaster in 1951, was a thinking—and fighting—man's soldier. by Thomas Fleming 7/21/2017 12/18/2023 Matthew Ridgway, December 1952.
Matthew B. Ridgway His military career began in 1917, when the Army commissioned him as a Second Lieutenant immediately after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. By 1930, Ridgway had become an advisor to the Governor General of the Philippines, and within a few years, he rose to the rank of Assistant Chief of Staff of the 4th Army.
Ridgway quit active service on June 30, 1955. He published his memoirs the following year, under the title: “Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway” and in 1967 he wrote “The Korean War”. He is always linked to strategic debates and is heard in many speeches. He is invited by President Lyndon Johnson to the White House to decide on ...
3. März 2020 · Happy birthday to General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, born on March 3, 1895 at Fort Monroe, Virginia. The son of an Army colonel and a 1917 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ridgway went on to distinguish himself as one of the greatest soldiers in American history. During the Second World War, he planned and executed the Army’s first major airborne assault during the ...
Published January 20, 2016. "The Old Army is finally dead and departed," Murray Kempton of Newsday wrote in 1993. "The funeral of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has to be its last rite. He was 98 and had ...
The Ridgway Family Endowment provides funding for the General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant Program. The intent of the program is to support on-site research at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC), Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on subjects that are of enduring or emerging value to the history of the Army and are well-supported by the USAHEC's holdings.
