Leif J. Sverdrup
United States Army general · United States · Scientists · Lived 1898 to 1976 · aged 77
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Something wrong?Leif Johan Sverdrup was a Norwegian-born American civil engineer and general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his service in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II where he was Chief Engineer under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
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Platte Purchase and Fairfax Bridges, seen from the south bank.
Washington Bridge from the southwest bank.
Brigadier General Leif Sverdrup (right) and Major General Hugh Casey (left) in 1944.
Allied advance across Owen Stanley Range 26 September - 15 November 1942.
Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith (second from left), Commanding General, V Fighter Command, the pilot of first allied combat plane to land at Tadji; Sverdrup (center); and Colonel Robert Morrissey (right), Chief of Staff, V Fighter Command, the pilot of second lightning to land, are greeted by Air Commodore F. R. W. Scherger (left) and Wing Commander W. A. C. Dale (second from right), whose engineers of No. 62 Works Wing RAAF built the airstrip. General Wurtsmith's plane is in background.
Aerial view of the Virginia Beach, Virginia entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-TunnelAwards
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