Danger 79er The Life and Times of Lieutenant General James F. Hollingsworth【電子書籍】[ James H. Willbanks ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞Danger 79er＜/em＞, historian James H. Willbanks tells the remarkable story of Lt. Gen. James F. Hollingsworth, a three-time recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross along with four Silver Stars, six Purple Hearts, and a host of additional medals and commendations. His career spanned wars both cold and hot, and throughout, “Holly” was a hard-charging, hands-on soldier who could be irreverent and brash but always “led from the front.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hollingsworth entered the US Army as a second lieutenant upon graduation from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University). In World War II, while leading tanks in Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army, Hollingsworth encountered dug-in German defenders. He lined up his thirty-four tanks and issued a command rarely heard in modern warfare: Charge! Patton later recognized Hollingsworth as one of the two best armored battalion commanders in the war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Twenty years later, Hollingsworth served in Vietnam, wher．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る