Omar+Bradley

Omar Nelson Bradley was a highly distinguished senior officer of the United States Army who served in North Africa and Western Europe during World War II, and later became General of the Army. He was born in 1893 and died in 1981. He was important because from D-Day through to the end of the war in Europe, he had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west. He commanded forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single U.S. field commander.

Omar Bradley fought in World War II as an American general. This was the only war he fought in. He commanded three corps to the American target of Utah and Omaha beach. Later, he helped to plan Operation Cobra, the beginning of the breakout of the Normandy Beachhead. Bradley's Army Group and XV Corps then, became the southern pincer in forming the Falaise Pocket, trapping the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy. They attacked the corridor known as the Aachen Gap towards the German township of Schmidt. Then he commanded the biggest battle in World War II, the Battle of the Bulge, and finally as Bradley’s army pushed up on Berlin, the fight was over and the Allies won the war.

 He is important to the places that we are visiting because we will visit Normandy where the war took place and see how the war was fought and won. He was an important part of D-Day and Battle of the Bulge.