pershing

     

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Trivia about pershing

  • The fifth star was a reward for his service in World War I & he retired at that rank in 1924
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Harley-Davidson in Wisconsin.) This is a World War I-era Harley, like the ones this general's forces rode in pursuit of Pancho Villa
  • In 1916 Patton was an acting aide to this man, commander of WWI's American Expenditionary Forces
  • With this A.E.F. leader arrived in France, he laid a wreath at the tomb of the Marquis de Lafayette
  • Upon arriving in France in 1917, this AEF commander laid a wreath on Lafayette's tomb
  • 19 years before commanding the AEF in WWI, he charged up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War
  • Designed to replace the Redstone missile, this missile named for a U.S. WWI general was first tested in 1960
  • In 1919 he became "General of the Armies", the highest rank held by any American except George Washington

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