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Matthew B. Ridgway. Matthew Bunker Ridgway was a United States Army general. He held several major commands and is most famous as the commander of the famed 82nd Airborne Division during World War II and for resurrecting the United Nations (U.N.) war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning the war ...
Matthew Bunker Ridgway, né le 3 mars 1895 à Fort Monroe en Virginie, mort le 26 juillet 1993 à Fox Chapel, près de Pittsburgh, est un général américain qui s'est notamment illustré au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la guerre de Corée .
Matthew B. Ridgway, 58, US-General, Oberbefehlshaber der Atlantikpakt-Streitkräfte, wird von den europäischen Offizieren im Pariser Atlantikpakt-Hauptquartier wegen seiner menschlichen Haltung ...
General Matthew B. Ridgway's astonishing ability to visualize a military campaign matured because of leadership development, lessons learned from failure, and personal mastery of operational art. During World War II, Ridgway commanded the 82nd Airborne Division in Operations HUSKY and NEPTUNE, and then the XVIII Airborne Corps in Operation MARKET, the Battle of the Bulge, and Operation VARSITY ...
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 ...
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.
Matthew B. Ridgway Biographie. Matthew Bunker Ridgway est né à Fort Monroe en Virginie le 3 mars 1895. Son père, diplômé de l’académie militaire de West Point et colonel dans l’artillerie, lui fait découvrir l’armée et toute la famille déménage régulièrement au gré de ses mutations.
