# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-h-gerhardt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:50:43.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-h-gerhardt"
name: "Charles H. Gerhardt"
slug: "charles-h-gerhardt"
description: "Charles Hunter Gerhardt was a major general in the United States Army who commanded the 29th Infantry Division from 1943 until the end of the war and during part of the occupation of Germany. The division's most famous combat operations were the Omaha Beach landings of June 6, 1944, otherwise known as D-Day, the taking of the French crossroads town of Saint-Lô in July 1944, and later the capture of Brest, Jülich, and München-Gladbach."
tagline: "United States general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_H._Gerhardt.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1895-06-06"
deathDate: "1976-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.05
  momentum:             20.64042303172738
  historical:           5.714582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Gerhardt"
    title: "Charles H. Gerhardt"
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    title: "تشارلز إتش غيرهارد"
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    title: "تشارلز اتش جيرهارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gerhardt"
    title: "Charles Gerhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Gerhardt"
    title: "Charles H. Gerhardt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98"
    title: "צ'ארלס גרהארט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5078568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump