Comments on: Omar Bradley, the General's General

By: Paul Chacon

Paul Chacon — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:58:18 +0000

My godfather was General Bradley's bodyguard during WWII and has a memory that is nothing short of astonishing! His name is Louis Villegos and is living in Colorado Springs CO. He remebers names dates and villages during their movemnts throughout Europe during the war.

By: Larry Burgess

Larry Burgess — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:11:50 +0000

I have always been a fan of both General Patton and General Bradley. They were very different men when it came to fighting a war but they both got the job done. The line in the movie "Patton" sort of tells the story and points out the difference between the two men.

Bradley said to Patton some thing along the line of: "George, I fight this war because its my job but you fight this war because you love it…"

By: Charles Darnay

Charles Darnay — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:39:03 +0000

General Bradley was a great military teacher- wow look at the impressive students: Creighton W. Abrams Jr., Bruce Palmer Jr., Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., John L. Throckmorton, and William Westmoreland. WIthout Bradley's leadership and teachings in the middle to late 1930's our officer ranks would have been terrible. Thank God General Bradley was available.

By: W John

W John — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:38:14 +0000

J W- "Bradly was the man to get your son home and defeat the enemy."

Do you know how many US soldier dead in Hurtgen Forest under the command of Bradly, do you know Patton's third army had the lowest causality/kill ratio?

By: J Wire

J Wire — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:40:01 +0000

Omar Bradley is the General that the Army since WWll has tried to use as a poster child more than any other general. He cared about his troops like a father yet always the objective was the mission to be accomplished. His men loved him because they knew he did care about them and knew the best way to end the war was through defeating the enemy. Patton never let up on the enemy and yet he never let any supplies catch up to him either. I knew a man who was in Patton's unit during the war who said for 6months for breakfast, lunch and supper he ate red beets and peas. This is no lie. He hated beets and peas for the rest of his life. All the people who wern't there looked at Patton's sucesses and glorifiy him. He was a pusher who only cared of defeating the Enemy with the most glory for himself possible. Bradly was the man to get your son home and defeat the enemy.

By: J Kenneday

J Kenneday — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:58:28 +0000

A good article on a good General.

While we needed our Patton's, Montgomery's & MacArthur's it was important that we also needed the good solid Generals to keep them in rein. I believe this was Eisenhower's, & IMHO Bradley's place.

By: B. Horne

B. Horne — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:15:08 +0000

WW–
good point–you seem to know your stuff.
But I'm curious what you and others thought about the real theme of this story–that Bradley's real genius was in knowing how and when to use Patton, in masterminding Operation Cobra, then throwing
Patton in to spearhead it?

Bill Horne, Editor
World War II Magazine

By: William Weidner

William Weidner — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:27:29 +0000

General Bradley ordered Patton's XVCorps to sit behind the southern inter-Army Group Boundary at Argentan-St. Leonard-Gace for nearly a week from 12 August to 17 August 1944, leaving critical terrain features in possession of the Germans: like the ridge line at St. Leonard, the high ground northeast of Arhentan and the critical road net at Argentan. This cost a lot of American boys their lives. The GI's general my foot……..