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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: oakranger on November 04, 2008, 07:00:43 AM
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There are four people who where generals during WWI and WWII. Name them.
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There were only 4????
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:confused:
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There were only 4????
He means, I believe, that there were four that were generals in both WWI & WWII.
I'll go Google it & get back with the answer :lol
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There were only 4????
Yep, there where only 4. All from different countries.
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You forgot General Motors there, Shifty.
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lol, shifty
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You forgot General Motors there, Shifty.
Who the hell promoted him? :furious
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:rofl
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was general forum a general in WW2?
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Two missing?
1. Bernard Freyberg
2. Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (Field Marshal and Marshal of Finland in ww2 but that is not officially a military rank)
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pretty sure Goering was decorated in the Great War so thats my guess for one, wouldn't have a clue about the rest...
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pretty sure Goering was decorated in the Great War so thats my guess for one, wouldn't have a clue about the rest...
He was a pilot in WW1 not a general.
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Two missing?
1. Bernard Freyberg
2. Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (Field Marshal and Marshal of Finland in ww2 but that is not officially a military rank)
Mipoikle got two of them. need two more.
Here is a giver. one remained gerneral status after WWII and into Korean War
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General Confusion?
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General Election?
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1) Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba
- WWI went from a Col. to Gerneral
- WWII remaind as general and resign in December 1940
2) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
- WWI British Army Capten and gained promotion to the rank of temporary Brigadier
- WWII Promoted to Lieutenant General and knighted via Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Freyberg continued to command the New Zealand 2nd Division through the North African and Italian campaigns of the British Eighth Army.
3) Carl Gustaf Emil Von Mannerheim
- WWI Mannerheim served as commander of the Guards Cavalry Brigade (Under Russia), and fought on the Austro-Hungarian and Romanian fronts. He was promoted to Lieutenant General in April 1917 (the promotion was backdated to February 1915), and he took command of the 6th Cavalry Corps in the summer of 1917. In January 1918 the Senate of the newly independent Finland, under its chairman Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, appointed Mannerheim as Commander-in-Chief of Finland's almost nonexistent army,
- WWII Officially he became the Commander-in-Chief after the Soviet attack on November 30 1940.
4) Douglas MacArthur
- WWI MacArthur served in France as chief of staff of the 42nd ("Rainbow") Division. Upon his promotion to Brigadier General he became the commander of the 84th Infantry Brigade. A few weeks before the war ended, he became division commander.
- WWII On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 8, 1941, in Manila), MacArthur was Allied commander in the Philippines. He had over eight hours warning of a possible Japanese attack on the Philippines. MacArthur was ordered on August 29, to exercise authority through the Japanese government machinery, including Emperor Hirohito.[24] Some believe MacArthur may have made his greatest contribution to history in the next five and a half years, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan.
- Korea War MacArthur, as US theater commander, became commander of the UN forces.
Take note: Arthur and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to be awarded the Medal of Honor. (They remained the only pair until 2001 when Theodore Roosevelt was awarded one posthumously for his service during the Spanish American War. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. had earned one posthumously for his service during World War II).
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Does Pétain count?
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General Spellcheck
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Does Pétain count?
NO !
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He was definately a "general" in WW1 as well as WW2, or where do I slip?
Was his rank above?
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He was maréchal but it's not a military rank and so when after WWII he was judged he retrained this after being demoted
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Weygand, no?
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Forgot this one but you're probably right thrila, except I'm usure he was really general or "faisant fonction de" during WWI , it need to be checked.
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I checked on wiki (not the best source i know) and it seems he was a general in both. So that would make it 5 generals, not 4- where's my cookie :)
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Pershing, DeGaulle, Haig, Ludendorff
I think only 1 is from WW2, only ones I can name from the top of my head.
There were tons of generals in WW2. Silly to name only '4'
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Who the hell promoted him? :furious
You busting Rank on GM? :furious
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Interesting, surprised that the British didn't have another. No one mentioned that Freyberg had a VC, earned in WW1. Interestingly I accidentally came across his grave a couple of years ago, beautifully situated in a churchyard on a hill in Guildford, Surrey in England. It was surprisingly modest considering the man's career and life. Quite sad really how even the most interesting life can end up under a stone even if the location is beautiful. Ironically it was one of his WW1 wounds that killed him in the end. He died when a Gallipoli wound ruptured in 1963.
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WTF is a Gerneral anyway?