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...101st Airborne: Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor, 42-year-old West Pointer, best known for his dangerous mission to Rome to negotiate armistice details with Marshal Badoglio just before the landing at Salerno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...79th Division: Major General Ira T. Wyche, 56, pocket-size (5 ft. 6, 135 lbs.) West Pointer; a field artilleryman in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Normandy Line-Up | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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