November 22, 2023 So You Want to Retire … After serving 43 years in the U.S. Army, Gen. George Marshall planned to retire. He and his wife, Katherine, would…
June 7, 2023 D-Day +6 Gen. George C. Marshall and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff left Washington, D.C., just after D-Day on…
April 24, 2023 Marshall and the Knutsford Affair This is a previously published blog. At the opening of a British Welcome Club for American soldiers in Knutsford, England,…
April 22, 2021 An Expectation of Professionalism Newly promoted Col. George Marshall had only been commanding officer at Fort Moultrie, SC, for a few months in an…
April 9, 2021 “Avoid trivia.” George Marshall was sworn in as Secretary of State January 21, 1947, just after he returned from working as Special…
March 17, 2021 “They Were Americans Before All Else”: Col. Marcus Ray and Gen. Marshall Marcus Hannan Ray was born in Chicago to Randall and Ada Ray in 1904. Randall was a porter for the…
December 17, 2020 “I Am Interested in the Soldier Having His Pants” While a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, George Marshall studied military history and tactics, and was doubtless familiar with…
