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Lesley James McNair (* 25. Mai 1883 in Verndale, Wadena County, Minnesota; † 25. Juli 1944 bei Saint-Lô, Frankreich) war ein Offizier der US Army im Ersten Weltkrieg und Zweiten Weltkrieg, zuletzt im Rang eines Generalleutnants.
Lesley James McNair (May 25, 1883 – July 25, 1944) was a senior United States Army officer who served during World War I and World War II. He attained the rank of lieutenant general during his life; he was killed in action during World War II, and received a posthumous promotion to general .
29. Okt. 2015 · One of Operation Cobra’s most costly casualties, General Lesley J. McNair, came from friendly fire. By Brian Todd Carey As Allied bombs rained down from B-17s and B-24s on their own men to open Operation Cobra , a three-star general was visiting the front lines: Commander of Army Ground Forces Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair.
A longtime believer in the superiority of observed fires and the need to provide forward guns and observers to support attacking infantry, McNair strongly supported the gunnery department’s effort to find ways to provide faster, more accurate, and more effective fire support in open warfare conditions.
23. Okt. 2023 · 9. 642 views 9 days ago. Mark Calhoun, PhD, Military Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the author of General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the ...
17. Dez. 2009 · McNair, who had already received a Purple Heart for being wounded in the North African Campaign, was killed in his foxhole July 25, 1944, near St. Lo during Operation Cobra, by an errant aerial bomb dropped during a pre-attack bombardment by heavy strategic bombers of the Eighth Air Force.
27. Jan. 2017 · Lesley J. McNair in his office at the Army War College (NDU Special Collections) McNair was a straight talker. Years before Patton made his colorful speeches to the 3 rd Army in 1944, McNair gave the entire Army and the Nation a “blood and guts” speech on Armistice Day, December 1, 1942.
