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Omar Bradley

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Military Personnel

The Resume

    (February 12, 1893-April 8, 1981)
    Commanded troops in North Africa, leader of the invasion of Sicily (1943)
    Commander of the US 12th Army Division in Europe (1944-1945)
    Was the first chairman of the US Army Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-1953)

Why he might be annoying:

    President Roosevelt disliked him because Bradley refused to laugh at any of President Roosevelt's jokes.
    He blamed a lot of his troop's problems on the British military.
    He had conflicts with both George S. Patton and Bernard Law Montgomery.
    In 1950, he traveled to Japan to see Douglas MacArthur, the two soon got into an argument after Bradley accused MacArthur of having 'an obsession for self-glorification.'
    He remarried only a few months after his first wife's death in 1965, even though he was 72 years old at the time.
    He smoked.
    For some unknown reason, he had plans to secretly re-arm Japan after WW II.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a 'common soldier's general,' meaning he disliked the high command, and enjoyed the company of regular GI's.
    Soldiers under his command advanced out of the Normandy beachhead and made their way to liberate Paris (1944).
    His troops seized the first bridgehead over the Rhine River, and drove through central Germany to establish first contact with the Red Army.
    By the end of WW II, he was in control of 4 field armies which consisted of 12 corps, 48 divisions, and over 1,300,000 GIs. It was the largest American field command in US Army history.
    He tried to prevent US involvement in the Korean War.
    He was in the Army for almost 38 years (1915-1953).

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 76.92% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3825 Votes: 40.65% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 27 Votes: 29.63% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 233 Votes: 54.08% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 80 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 85 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 348 Votes: 59.48% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 64 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 140 Votes: 32.86% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 154 Votes: 46.10% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 126 Votes: 46.03% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 410 Votes: 61.71% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 377 Votes: 41.91% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 430 Votes: 42.56% Annoying