Lucian Truscott
✓ Source-basedfallingU.S. Army general in WWII, commander of 5th and 3rd Army (1895-1965)
United StatesLived 1895 to 1965 · aged 70General Lucian King Truscott Jr. was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer, who saw distinguished active service during World War II.
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Truscott as a captain during the interwar period.
Major General Lucian K. Truscott speaking to men of his 3rd Division outdoors, North Africa, 1943.
General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Allied Armies in Italy (AAI), with Major General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., commander of the U.S. VI Corps, in the Anzio beachhead, Italy, 4 March 1944
General Sir Harold Alexander with Major General Lucian Truscott and other senior Allied commanders at Anzio, Italy, 5 May 1944. Major General John Hawkesworth is pictured on the far right wearing a parachutist helmet, and to the left of him is Major General Philip Gregson-Ellis
Truscott pins the Bronze Star on Captain Richard Wolfer, France, 25 October 1944
Truscott decorates Japanese American soldiers of Company 'L' of the 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team with the Presidential Unit Citation, 4 September 1945Awards 2
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General Lucian King Truscott Jr. was a highly decorated senior United States Army officer, who saw distinguished active service during World War II. Between 1943-1945, he successively commanded the 3rd Infantry Division, VI Corps, Fifteenth Army and Fifth Army, serving mainly in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) during his wartime service. He and Alexander Patch were the only U.S. Army officers to command a division, a corps, and a field army in combat during the war.
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