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Eisenhower ( 2nd from left ) and Omar Bradley ( 2nd from right ) were members of the 1912 West Point football team.
Other recipients included US Army generals Omar Bradley and Matthew Ridgeway, J. C. Penney, Johnny Olsen and Ralph Story.
* General Omar N. Bradley
* General Omar Bradley
* February 12 – Omar Bradley, American general ( d. 1981 )
* April 8 – Omar N. Bradley, 5 Star General US Army ( b. 1893 )
Many of the American generals who were given top commands during the war were either picked or recommended by Marshall, including Dwight Eisenhower, Lloyd Fredendall, Leslie McNair, Mark Wayne Clark and Omar Bradley.
Soon thereafter, Patton had Omar Bradley reassigned to his corps as deputy commander.
When he was informed of the massacres of Italian prisoners, Omar Bradley told Patton that U. S. troops had murdered some 50 – 70 prisoners in cold blood.
Instead, General Omar Bradley was promoted to lieutenant general.
Omar Bradley | Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower | Eisenhower, and Patton
Compared to Omar Bradley, Patton actually fired only one general during the entire war, Orlando Ward, and only after two warnings, whereas Bradley sacked numerous generals during the war.
It was in France that Patton found himself in the company of another former subordinate, Omar Bradley, who had also become his superior.
Army General Omar Bradley and Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shared the number one position, while Walter Bedell Smith, ( a staff officer with no field command experience during the war ), was ranked number 2.
To the south, the U. S. 12th Army Group under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley was nearing the German border and had been ordered to orient on the Aachen gap with Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges ' U. S. First Army, in support of Montgomery's advance on the Ruhr.
Its deployment at the beach caused such problems that Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commander of the U. S. First Army, at one stage considered evacuating Omaha, while Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery considered the possibility of diverting V Corps forces through Gold Beach.
The Park ’ s grandeur has attracted millions, included among them are names known around the world such as the Kennedy family, Harry Truman, General Omar Bradley, Winston Churchill, and J. P. Morgan.
* Omar Bradley ( February 12, 1893-August 8, 1981 ) One of the main U. S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the Army of the United States Army.
* Omar Bradley ( February 12, 1893-August 8, 1981 ) One of the main U. S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the Army of the United States Army.
* Omar Bradley, US Army general
* Omar Bradley American general
Grunert held interim command over First Army until January 1944 while Omar N. Bradley completed assembling and staffing its new headquarters in England for the Normandy Invasion.

Omar and American
* 1861 – Omar Bundy, American general ( d. 1940 )
In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).
* 1976 – Omar Gooding, American actor
* 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter ( Racer X, The Mars Volta, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, The Scream, and Big Sir )
Along with 300 other organizations, they listed CAIR ( and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad ), Islamic Society of North America ( largest Muslim umbrella organization in the United States ), Muslim American Society and North American Islamic Trust as unindicted co-conspirators, a legal designation that can be employed for a variety of reasons including grants of immunity, pragmatic considerations, and evidentiary concerns.
The African leaders with close ties to France — especially during the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ) — acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests, than as the national leaders of sovereign states, such as Omar Bongo ( Gabon ), Félix Houphouët-Boigny ( Côte d ' Ivoire ), Gnassingbé Eyadéma ( Togo ), Denis Sassou-Nguesso ( Republic of the Congo ), Idriss Déby ( Chad ), and Hamani Diori ( Niger ).
In the north British 21st Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (" Monty "), in the middle the American 12th Army Group commanded by General Omar N. Bradley, and in the South the American 6th Army Group commanded by Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers.
* General Omar Bradley recalled that his column was attacked by American A-36s in Sicily.
He also provided the voice of Omar in the American release of the animated film Rock & Rule.
After the war, Eisenhower said that Spaatz, along with General Omar Bradley, was one of the two American general officers who had contributed the most to the victory in Europe.
His nine Gold Glove Awards set an American League record for shortstops, that was tied by Omar Vizquel in.
On 7 August 1998, American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed under the direction of Osama bin Laden, and all pipeline negotiations halted, as the Taliban's leader, Mohammad Omar, announced that Osama bin Laden had the Taliban's support.
When sufficient American forces had landed, their own 12th Army Group was activated, under General Omar Bradley and the 21st Army Group was left with the British 2nd Army and the First Canadian Army under its control.
At that point, Montgomery ceased to command all land forces but continued as Commander in Chief of the British 21st Army Group ( 21 AG ) on the eastern wing of the Normandy bridgehead and the American 12th Army Group ( 12 AG ) commanded by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley was created as the western wing of the bridgehead.
Fitzgerald's translation became so popular by the turn of the century that hundreds of American humorists wrote parodies using the form and, to varying degrees, the content of his stanzas, including The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam, The Rubaiyat of A Persian Kitten, The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr.
Arimaa was invented by Omar Syed, an Indian American computer engineer trained in artificial intelligence.
In the summer of 1943 he was the personal pilot of General Omar Bradley, General John C. H. Lee and General C. R. Smith ( Founder and President – American Airlines ), among others.
* Omar Hakim ( 1959 -), an American drummer

Omar and general
The eleventh century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám saw a strong relationship between geometry and algebra, and was moving in the right direction when he helped to close the gap between numerical and geometric algebra with his geometric solution of the general cubic equations, but the decisive step came later with Descartes.
A more general binomial theorem and the so-called " Pascal's triangle " were known in the 10th-century A. D. to Indian mathematician Halayudha and Persian mathematician Al-Karaji, in the 11th century to Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam, and in the 13th century to Chinese mathematician Yang Hui, who all derived similar results .< ref > Al-Karaji also provided a mathematical proof of both the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle, using mathematical induction.
* July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat and intelligence officer ( b. 1936 )
J. O ' Connor and E. F. Robertson ( 1999 ), Omar Khayyam, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, states, " Khayyam himself seems to have been the first to conceive a general theory of cubic equations.
Omar Bradley: U. S. Army lieutenant general, outside Denver
* Omar Bradley ( 1893 – 1981 ), U. S. general
In August 1942, Ridgway was promoted to major general and was given command of the U. S. 82nd Airborne Division upon Omar N. Bradley's assignment to the 28th Infantry Division.
Omar Pasha, Ottoman general.
Ottoman general Omar Pasha decided in March 1852 to disarm the Herzegovinians of their weapons, this sparked an outrage in the region in which local clan chief Luka Vukalović was holding.
The general shape of the church is modelled after similar round structures in Jerusalem: the Mosque of Omar and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
" Kris Benson himself later said that he felt New York traded him to Baltimore because of his wife, but Omar Minaya, general manager of the Mets, ultimately discounted speculation that her behavior had played a role, saying, " We just made a baseball trade.
Because Pérez Balladares was ineligible to run again, the PRD ultimately selected Martín Torrijos, the son of Omar Torrijos, as the candidate for the Panamanian general election, 1999.
* Omar Bundy ( 1861 – 1940 ), U. S. Army general
The murder of a prostitute in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1942 draws Abwehr Major Grau ( Omar Sharif ) into an investigation where the evidence points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler ( Charles Gray ), General Kahlenberg ( Donald Pleasence ), his chief of staff, and General Tanz ( Peter O ' Toole ).
Omar Said Al-Hassan is the Chairman of the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies, a London based think tank which gathers, and publishes information about the Persian Gulf states, and Arab issues in general.
In March 1846 Omar ( son of Sheik Mohammed ), nominal general of the Bornu sultan Ibrahim suffered a defeat at Kousséri.
* Died: General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, 88, last " five-star general " in the United States

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