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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 ...
Ridgway became a four-star general in May 1951. He served as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1952–53 and as U.S. Army chief of staff in 1953–55. He retired in 1955. He was the author of the memoirs Soldier and The Korean War. Ridgway died on July 26, 1993, in Fox Chapel, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
26. Juli 1993 · In 1986, Gen. Ridgway was one of seven people to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Gen. Ridgway is survived by his third wife, Mary. Two earlier marriages ended in divorce. He had two daughters by his first marriage, Constance and Shirley. A son from the third marriage, Matthew B. Ridgway Jr., was killed in a train accident in 1971.
27. Juli 1993 · Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, 98, one of this nation's foremost military figures who led elite airborne troops in furious battle in Europe during World War II, commanded an entire Army in the Korean ...
Matthew B. Ridgway was an influential American airborne commander during the Second World War and led United Nations forces during the Korean War. A 1917 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Ridgway served multiple tours in Latin America and Asia as a junior and mid-grade officer. A protégée of General George Marshall, he commanded the ...
4. März 2013 · Matthew Ridgway died in 1993 at the age of 98, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. “No soldier ever performed his duty better than this man,” said General Colin Powell, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a graveside eulogy. “No soldier ever upheld his honor better than this man did….
Matthew B. Ridgway. Matthew Bunker Ridgway was born in Fort Monroe, Virginia, on March 3, 1895. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Ridgway, an artillery officer. Ridgway began his higher education by applying to West Point Military Academy. He was rejected on his first attempt due to a lack of mathematical knowledge, but was accepted on his ...
