General of the Army : George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman
As the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff thorugh World War II, George Catalett Marshall (1880-1959) organized the military mobilization of unprecedented numbers of Americans and decisively shaped the Allied strategy that defeated first Nazi Germany, then Imperial Japan. As President Truman's Secretary of State, and later as his Secretary of Defense during the Korean war, Marshall the statesman created the ...



