The Marshall Effect (Part 4)

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The Marshall Effect (Part 4)

Bob Weinstein

November 23, 2009





Gen. George Marshall ll was a quintessential team player. Military historians and his biographers agree that unlike most of the high-ranking generals who shaped America’s destiny, he gave of himself unselfishly--a rare trait in any age.
 
Marshall was a team player, and his “multi-service efforts in Washington resulted in successful combined operations in Europe and the Pacific (especially amphibious landings and tactical and strategic air support),” says Edward H. Bonekemper, lll, military historian, author and adjunct lecturer of U.S. military history at Muhlenberg College.
 
“FDR, Marshall, Ike and Nimitz all were team players who took charge and assumed responsibility for their actions, while spelling out sacrifices the American people would have to make,” according to Bonekemper.



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