William Westmoreland

Quotes

• “Well, the Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And, as the philosophy of the Orient expresses it - life is - is not important.”
• “To Kitsy, Stevie, Rip, and Margaret, and to the valiant men and women of the United States and other nations who served the cause of freedom in South Vietnam.”
• “Despite a number of near misses, I came through the war unscathed. In Tunisia a shell hit my vehicle but without harm to me, and in Sicily an exploding mine blew up my vehicle, but I was thrown clear. On the Roer River in Germany, just as I got out of my Jeep and entered a company command post, a mortar shell struck my vehicle. In the Remagen bridgehead on the Rhine a shell demolished a latrine moments after I had departed. Somehow none of the enemy shells had my number.”
• “Among a stream of visitors to the 9th Division in England, while it was preparing for D-Day in the early months of 1944, was Prime Minister Winston Churchill. When he arrived to address the assembled troops, he went at first not to the speaker's stand but behind a small outbuilding. He reappeared minutes later buttoning his fly, making sure no one missed the reason for the delay. The troops loved it.”
• “Khe Sanh will stand in history, I am convinced, as a classic example of how to defeat a numerically superior besieging force by co-ordinated application of firepower.”
• “There is, General Douglas MacArthur said, "no substitute for victory." For all who would face reality, the truth of those words was proven not only in South Vietnam but in all of Indochina.”

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Key facts

Nickname

Westy

Born

( 1914-03-26 ) 26 March 1914, Saxon, South Carolina , U.S.

Died

18 July 2005 (2005-07-18) (aged 91), Charleston, South Carolina , U.S.

Buried

West Point Cemetery

Allegiance

United States

Branch

United States Army

Service years

1936–1972

Rank

General

Service number

0-20223

Commands

Chief of Staff of the United States Army , Military Assistance Command, Vietnam , XVIII Airborne Corps , 101st Airborne Division , 187th Regimental Combat Team , 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment , 34th Field Artillery Battalion , United States Military Academy

Conflicts

See list World War II Operation Torch Tunisian campaign Battle of Sicily Battle of Normandy Siegfried Line campaign Battle of the Bulge Central Europe campaign Occupation of Germany Korean War Vietnam War Battle of Khe Sanh Tet Offensive May Offensive Battle of Kham Duc

Awards

Army Distinguished Service Medal (4) , Legion of Merit (3), Bronze Star Medal , Eulji Order of Military Merit , Taegeuk Order of Military Merit

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Wikidata facts

Image

Gen William C Westmoreland.jpg

Number of children

3

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