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(1940s) Gen. Omar Bradley
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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General Omar Bradley
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<p>(May 1, 1944)
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<p> General Omar Bradley looked the part of an outdoorsman. His
G.I. trousers were stuffed into high paratroop boots. Under his
old, stained trench coat he wore an issue combat jacket. His
shirt, tie and field cap with its three stars were all issue.
His tall (just over six feet), lanky, comfortably sprawling
figure was anything but dashing. But his dark grey eyes,
flashing from under heavy black brows in a homely, bony face
ranged wide, missed nothing.
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<p> The general in the trench coat was the man the doughboys look
to, a living, official symbol of the principle, proved again in
this mechanized war, that it is the doughboy who must finally
take the ground.
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<p> Bradley himself is a classic infantryman, fit and athletic,
patient and persistent, fascinated and skilled with weapons, a
lover of life in the field. He has never had the airman's flash,
nor known the death in one hour, the ease of the officer's club
the next. Nor is this general full of slide-rule, firetable,
grid-coordinator calculation of the artilleryman, although his
mind is essentially mathematical, and he has studied and
practiced war as scientifically as a man can.
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<p> Omar Bradley is a plain, homely, steady man with brains and
character, born to and trained for the fulfillment of the
doughboy's grim, hard-working role in war. No one in the U.S.
armed forces knows better than he that Invasion Day is the foot
soldier's day.</p>
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