The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General George C. Marshall - May 10th, 2003

http://www.m1-garand.com/Marshall.htm ^

[SAMWolf]

Good Night Snippy.

[Graewoulf]

Thanks for this post. I really appreciate that you also include your sources -- VERY scholarly of you!

It amazes me that a military man with the stature of Marshall would have the tenacity to stay in the Military during the 1930's when, as you so plainly showed us, his assignments were at times only slightly related to the military. We are grateful that he did so.

[SAMWolf]

I really appreciate that you also include your sources -- VERY scholarly of you!

Thanks, but it's not so much scholarly as I am trying to avoid someone coming back later and saying "you got that from my site and didn't give me credit".

At first I thought crediting the main article was good enough but I found out it's better to cover all sources in threads like this.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Yes those were the days of such skillful leadership, the Madeline Albright team. Puts those like George Marshall to shame lol.

[GATOR NAVY]

The Baltimore Class sure had good a looking lines.

Except when they lost their bows in typhoons!

[SAMWolf]

Boy! I bet that cut her top speed down some.

[colorado tanker]

IMHO Gen. Marshall doesn't get enough credit for the WWII victory, compared to the higher profile Generals like Ike, Patton, Bradley and MacArthur. Marshall wrote the playbook for victory from the first painful decision that reinforcing the Phillipines would be a waste of valuable resources to gearing the homefront to supply a much more mechanized Army to the decision to go for Europe first. Not least, Marshall had an eye for talent and advanced some junior people to very senior positions, like that talented colonel in War Plans who ended up Supreme Allied Commander.

[SAMWolf]

Marshall was an extremely capable strategic planner. You're right about him not getting he credit fo rall he did during the war. The field commanders were the ones in the News.