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Brereton was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1944 as his units began a campaign of planned attacks against airfields ( April 1 ), railway centers and rolling stock ( April 1 ), coastal batteries ( April 13 ), and bridges ( May 7 ) in France preparatory to Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944.
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Since the bulk of both troops and aircraft were American, Brereton, a U. S. Army Air Forces officer, was named by Eisenhower on 16 July and appointed by SHAEF on 2 August.
Garrick's play was a huge success, and major productions took place in the United States in 1756 ( with Hannah Pritchard as Catharine ), in 1788 ( with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble ), in 1810 ( again with Kemble and his real life wife, Priscilla Hopkins Brereton ), and in 1842 ( with William Macready as Petruchio ).
These recommendations were acted upon and by the mid-to-late 1980s, when the area had become largely derelict it was redeveloped as a pedestrian and tourist precinct as an initiative of then New South Wales Minister for Public Works, Laurie Brereton.
It contains a four-poster bed from the era of William and Mary and a portrait by Zuccaro of members of the Fitton family, which was formerly in Brereton Hall.
In June 2004, Labor leader Mark Latham announced that Garrett would become an Australian Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, in the safe New South Wales seat of Kingsford Smith which was being vacated by the former Cabinet minister Laurie Brereton.
The Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Labor's Laurie Brereton, was vocal in highlighting evidence of the Indonesian military's involvement in pro-integrationist violence and advocated United Nations peacekeeping to support the East Timor's ballot.
Brereton attempted in person to obtain authorization for such attacks soon after word of events in Hawaii reached Manila, but was twice prevented from speaking with MacArthur by Sutherland.
On 27 December, Sir William Brereton, the Parliamentarian commander in Cheshire and Lancashire, attempted to concentrate his forces to confront Byron, but was defeated by a sudden Royalist attack at the Second Battle of Middlewich.
He was accompanied by Brereton, and their force eventually numbered 1, 800 cavalry, 500 dragoons, 2, 500 infantry and a few hundred poorly-equipped " cudgellers ".
The first siege was led by Sir William Brereton in 1643 ; the second was during the following year.
Brereton was hit four times: his car veered and crashed into a telephone pole.
Ryan next turned his weapons on Linda Chapman and her teenage daughter, Alison, who had turned onto South View moments after Brereton was shot.
Brown, Jr. and Wallace Wilkinson, but then-Governor Brereton Jones was able to see it passed because, unlike Brown and Wilkinson, he was willing to exempt the present incumbents, including himself, from the succession provision.
A notable account of the voyage, written by John Brereton, one of the gentlemen adventurers, was published in 1602, and this helped in popularising subsequent voyages of exploration and colonisation of the northeast seaboard of America.
Maurice Buckmaster was born on 11 January 1902 at Ravenhill, Brereton, Staffordshire, England.
The present bridge, which was opened in 1903 by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and Cuthbert A Brereton.
I Airborne Corps became part of the First Allied Airborne Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Lewis H. Brereton, when the latter was organised in August 1944.
While retaining command of the corps, Browning also became Deputy Commander of the Army despite a poor relationship with Brereton and being disliked by many American officers, including Ridgway, who was now the commander of the US XVIII Airborne Corps.
When I Airborne Corps was committed to action in Operation Market Garden in September 1944, Browning's rift with Brereton had severe repercussions.
The population as at the 2001 census was 22, 724 ( including the Brereton and Etchinghill wards ).
Once in Britain the division was attached to XVIII Airborne Corps, which commanded all American airborne formations, and which in turn became part of First Allied Airborne Army when it was formed on 21 August under the command of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton.
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Brereton evacuated FEAF headquarters on 24 December to Darwin, Northern Territory by way of the Netherlands East Indies, leaving the new head of the 5th Interceptor Command, Col. Harold H. George ( promoted to brigadier general 25 January 1942 ) in command of units in the Philippines.
In November, when Foulois was promoted to brigadier general and sent to France to command the Air Service of the AEF, he took with him 100 members of his staff, including Brereton.
Brereton left the 12th Aero Squadron on July 1, was promoted to major on July 2 and three days later became Air Service Officer to the I Corps.
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He made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor in 1987, but was elected in 1991, serving concurrently as lieutenant governor and secretary of economic development under Governor Brereton Jones.
Brereton received a promotion to temporary lieutenant colonel on November 1, 1918.
Brereton retired in the grade of lieutenant general.
The association endorsed Harper, marking the first time in its history it had endorsed a Republican gubernatorial candidate, but endorsed Brereton Jones, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.
Low voter turnout prohibited him from setting the record for most votes received by a candidate in a Kentucky gubernatorial election, and he received several thousand fewer votes than Brereton Jones, the victorious Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.
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However, when Tenth Air Force commanding general Lewis Brereton was transferred to Egypt on 26 June, Stillwell used the occasion to issue an announcement that Chennault would continue to command all air operations in China.
In 1991, Baesler ran for governor in the Democratic primary and was narrowly defeated by Brereton Jones, who won the general election.
Lewis Hyde Brereton ( June 21, 1890 – July 20, 1967 ) was a military aviation pioneer and Lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.
Brereton then began six and one-half years of successive command assignments, including seven tours as a commanding general.
From July 1947 to June 1948 Brereton was Chairman of the Military Liaison Committee to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, then became secretary general of the Air Board to his retirement on September 1, 1948.
The evidence examined for this article suggests that Lewis Brereton was a capable commander and effective leader, but not a great general.
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* April 7 – William Brereton, English soldier and politician ( b. 1604 )
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet ( 13 September 1604 – 7 April 1661 ) was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1659.
In April 1640, Brereton was re-elected MP for Cheshire in the Short Parliament.
* Brereton & Beta Ray Bill in Eden, The Pulse, Comicon. com, April 14, 2009
Peter Brereton Townsend ( b. Middlesbrough, 6 April 1928-d. Dursley 7 June 2009 ) was a British sociologist.
Curtiss F float plane of the type flown by Brereton in fatal crash of April 8, 1913.
On April 2, 1988, he married Lucy Alexander Winchester, a former social secretary to First Lady Pat Nixon and cousin to Libby Jones, wife of future Kentucky governor Brereton Jones.
Robert Pearson Brereton ( 4 April 1818 – 1 September 1894 ) was an English railway engineer.
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