It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:
Chesty Puller, USMC
George Marshall, United States Army
Chuck Yeager, USAF
Wilfred Owen, British Army
George Henry Thomas, United States Army
Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, US Navy
Winston Churchill, British Army
James Doohan, Lieutenant, Canadian Infantry
Harry S Truman, US Army Artillery
William B. Cushing, US Navy
Flunked out of Annapolis for flunking Spanish and playing practical jokes; later one of the most daring and accomplished naval officers of the Civil War. He sank the Confederate ironclad CSS Alabama in a daring nighttime raid: William B. Cushing - Wikipedia
It’s Veterans Day on Sunday 11 November, and the Marine Corps Birthday tomorrow (10 November), so name a famous military person:
Chesty Puller, USMC
George Marshall, United States Army
Chuck Yeager, USAF
Wilfred Owen, British Army
George Henry Thomas, United States Army
Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, US Navy
Winston Churchill, British Army
James Doohan, Lieutenant, Canadian Infantry
Harry S Truman, US Army Artillery
William B. Cushing, US Navy
Quentin Roosevelt, United States Army Air Service
Teddy Roosevelt’s youngest son, killed in aerial combat over France on Bastille Day, July 14, 1918, age 20; his comrades and the German pilots who shot him down attested to his daring and courage. As of 2018, he is the only son of a US President to die in combat. TR never recovered from his loss, and died 6 months later.