General Leslie James McNair, the supreme general killed in the United States in World War II, this benevolent brother can be said to have died so unjustly that the United States had to secretly bury him and posthumously consider the impact in order to consider the impact. So how did McNair die at the time? Now that I think Americans are still feeling humiliated, let's move on.
Speaking of this famous american general, until his death, his military career has always been very smooth and bright. In 1904, McNair graduated from the famous West Point Military Academy in the United States, so he successfully entered the army after graduation. When World War I broke out in 1914, he led his troops into the war and achieved certain feats. On the eve of the outbreak of World War II in 1937, he was promoted to brigadier general and served as brigade commander of the U.S. Second Field Artillery Brigade. In 1941, McNair, who served as chief of staff of the Combat Training Department of the U.S. General Command, was promoted to three-star lieutenant general and then worked as an assistant to Marshall. In 1944 he was transferred to France as commander of the First Army.
So from McNair's resume, his promotion in the military can be described as very smooth and fast. He was sent to France to break through the German Normandy line. If they could break through this line, the Allies would go all the way to Berlin, which was also a great achievement for McNair.
But war is always brutal, and accidents and deaths don't know when they'll come. McNair's fate changed after he was sent to France. In a combat operation code-named Cobra, McNair, who had been promoted to commander of the First Army, fought with Joe Collins' 7th Army. The specific implementation of the plan was as follows, with thousands of Allied fighters taking the lead, carrying out carpet bombing and suppressing German positions with firepower. Then Joe Collins's 7th Army took the lead and tore a gap in the enemy's defenses. Finally, McNair led the First Army to rush up and break through the enemy's defenses.
The entire battle plan was well planned, and just as the Air Force fighters were preparing to bomb, front-line commander Bradley suddenly invited his old classmate McNair to watch the battle. In order to see the effect of the bombing, the two brothers came to the front line position, and it was estimated that they were only a few kilometers away from the German army at that time.
As the Allied fighters roared past, McNair stared with interest at the German positions in anticipation of the Germans being blown up beyond recognition. But he did not expect that a shell suddenly fell from the sky into the trench, and McNair was instantly blown out more than ten meters away. By the time the soldiers found him, McNair's flesh and blood were blurred, his breathing and heartbeat had stopped, and his death was confirmed on the spot. It was later confirmed that the shells that fell were not from someone else's house, but from their own homes.
So in this way, the American generation will fall, but he will die at the hands of his own people. After the news spread among the Allied generals at that time, it was very incredible, and once caused quite a stir. Later, the Allied commander-in-chief, Eisenhower, personally intervened and ordered the news to be blocked to avoid affecting the military and the implementation of the follow-up battle plan.
Although McNair was killed, the fighting that followed was still to be fought, so after the Allied fighters bombed, various forces attacked. In the end, the Allies won a great victory in this battle, completely broke the German Normandy defense line, and since then also sounded the clarion call of the Allied counterattack!
At the same time as the Allies launched a massive offensive, McNair's old classmate Bradley ordered him to be secretly buried in Normandy. At that time, mcNell's West Point alumni Patton, Hodges and other famous U.S. military generals attended the funeral in secret. But I don't know if it was a coincidence or someone else, And General Patton, who attended the funeral, died unexpectedly in a car accident in Mannheim, Germany, not long after the end of World War II. I remember that he was already a four-star general in the United States at that time, and this incident also caused a lot of turmoil.
Back to McNair, he went through World War I and World War II, and can be described as a veteran of the US army. During World War II, he was mainly responsible for the rear work of the US military, and made outstanding contributions to the development of the army and the organization of training. And the bosses he followed were all top cows, like Marshall, Eisenhower and so on. So if he hadn't been killed, the future would have been very bright. I remember that after Eisenhower became president of the United States in 1954, he did not forget the deceased former subordinate and posthumously awarded him a four-star general in the United States Army.
However, things are always unpredictable, and what seems to be inconceivable may be the own arrangement in the underworld. After all, General McNair has contributed to the peace of all mankind, so we still deeply regret his death, but war is so impermanent, we only hope that there will be no more war in the world!