Matthew Ridgway
✓ Source-basedrisingUnited States Army general (1895-1993)
Matthew Bunker Ridgway was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952-1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953-1955).
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Ridgway as United States Military Academy Graduate Manager of Athletics c. 1923
Ridgway and members of his staff outside Ribera, Sicily, 25 July 1943. To Ridgway's right is his aide, Captain Don C. Faith Jr.
From left to right: Major General J. Lawton Collins, British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Ridgway, December 1944
Ridgway and Major General James M. Gavin during the Battle of the Bulge, 19 December 1944
Ridgway (left) decorating British Brigadier James Hill with the Silver Star, March 1945. Pictured also in the middle is Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
From left to right: Ridgway, Major General Doyle Hickey, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in a jeep at a UN command post, April 1951
Ridgway visiting wounded UN soldiers onboard a hospital train, February 1951Awards 19
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Matthew Bunker Ridgway was a senior officer in the United States Army, who served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952-1953) and the 19th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1953-1955). Although he saw no combat service in World War I, he was intensively involved in World War II, where he was the first Commanding General (CG) of the 82nd Airborne Division, leading it in action in Sicily, Italy and Normandy, before taking command of the newly formed XVIII Airborne Corps in August 1944. He held the latter post until the end of the war in mid-1945, commanding the corps in the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity and the Western Allied invasion of Germany.
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