132 years ago today, on February 12, 1893 (December 26, 1892 lunar calendar), Bradley, a five-star general in the United States, was born. Omar Nelson Bradley (Omar Nelson Bradley, 1893-1981), was born on February 12, 1893 in Clark, Missouri, USA. He graduated from high school in 1910 and became a railway mechanic due to his poor family. In 1911, Bradley was admitted to West Point Military Academy, keeping in mind the school motto "Duty, Honor, Country", and underwent strict military training and systematic cultural learning. Four years later. Bradley graduated from West Point and served in the northwest of the United States. In September 1920, he was transferred to West Point as a mathematics instructor and began to browse and study military history and biographies of military figures. Promoted to major in the spring of 1924. In September 1924, Bradley was admitted to the Fort Benning Infantry School for a year of further study, focusing on the use of Army weapons in "mobile warfare" tactics. After graduation, he went to the 27th Infantry Regiment in Hawaii as a battalion commander, and then transferred to the National Guard to serve in the Hawaiian garrison. In September 1928, Bradley was ordered to enter the Army Command and Staff School for further study. Through study and training, he mastered good thinking methods and improved his ability to plan and control wars. In September 1929, Bradley was transferred to the tactical department instructor at the Fort Benning Infantry School. The following year, Bradley was appointed head of the weapons department by Marshall and became one of Marshall's main assistants in implementing teaching reforms. After four years of teaching at the Infantry School, Bradley was admitted to the Army Military Academy for further study. In 1934, Bradley was assigned to the tactical department of West Point as an instructor. In July 1936, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In 1938, Bradley was transferred to the Army Staff. In February 1941. Bradley was appointed principal and resident commander of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, and was promoted from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general. In addition to overall leadership of the infantry school, Bradley established a reserve officer school for accelerated training to meet the large-scale expansion of the army's requirements for increasing the number of low-level officers, and formed and trained tank units and airborne units to improve the Army's mobile combat capabilities. In December of the same year, Bradley was transferred to the 82nd Infantry Division, which was being restructured, and promoted to major general. He invited the famous York Middle-earth to come to give speeches and parades, so that recruits could learn about the history of the division and encourage the local atmosphere. He implemented a strict physical exercise program to enhance the physical fitness of the soldiers. In June of the following year, Bradley was changed to the 28th National Guard Division, and during his tenure, the division became a well-trained unit. In February 1943, Bradley received the order to be promoted to the post of commander of the 10th Army of the United States. At the same time, he was sent to North Africa by Marshall as Eisenhower's "eyes and ears". On March 6, Patton became the commander of the 2nd Army of the United States Army, and Bradley was appointed deputy commander of the 2nd Army. On March 17, the Battle of Tunis began, with the Second Army taking on the task of assisting. On April 15, Bradley was promoted to commander and took full command of the operations of the Second Army. On May 7, Bradley led his army into Bizerte. On May 13, all German and Italian troops in North Africa were wiped out, and Bradley was ordered to go to Algiers to assist Patton in formulating a Sicilian operation plan. In June, Bradley was promoted to lieutenant general. In the early hours of July 10, Bradley led the Second Army to participate in the Battle of Sicily (code-named Husky) within the 7th Army under Patton's command. According to the operation plan developed by Montgomery, the US military cancelled the landing operation near Palermo. Bradley commanded the 1st Infantry Division to attack Gela, and the 45th National Guard Division to attack Skoglietti. After a successful landing and repulsion of the defenders, Bradley's army reached the main road in the north, while the British were blocked at Catania. At this point, the Americans were expected to advance rapidly towards the northern coast, both to outflank Messina and to reduce the pressure on the British. However, due to Montgomery's obstruction, Bradley was ordered to give up the road to the British. Bradley realized that this move would deprive the Americans of favorable combat conditions and reduce the status and role of the Americans, but he still faithfully carried out the order after pointing to Patton. While Patton drove the Provisional Army to Palermo without authorization, Bradley led his troops through the mountains and continued to advance northward. On July 23, Bradley's army reached the coast of Termini-Imerese and Petraria, but unfortunately it was still unable to intercept the Germans who had withdrawn from Palermo. The ministry quickly turned the offensive to Messina and carried out the Troina offensive. In August, Bradley and Patton carried out the "frog-leaping" amphibious siege at San Agata and Brollo. On August 17, American and British troops entered Messina one after another, and most of the Axis forces withdrew to the Italian mainland. The Battle of Sicily ended. In January 1944, Bradley was officially appointed commander of the 1st Army Group by Eisenhower. In the early hours of June 6, the "Overlord" operation began. After the airborne troops landed and naval and air force fire assaults, Bradley commanded the US 1st Army within the British 21st Army Group and successfully landed on Omaha and Utah Beach. On July 1, the Americans captured Port Cherbourg and the Cotentin Peninsula. On July 25, Bradley began the "Cobra" campaign, which was delayed due to poor weather, after consolidating and expanding the landing site. On July 30, the Americans broke through the German lines in Afflance and captured a total of 20,000 German troops. The battle ended successfully. On August 1, the 1st Army and the 3rd Army formed the 12th Army Group of the United States, with nearly 400,000 troops, and Braidley served as the commander of the army group. Bradley swept the Brittany Peninsula with the 8th Army, and the rest of the armies were launched along the Caen-Le Mans line, ready to advance towards Paris and implement a long-distance detour of the German army in Normandy. At this moment, the Germans launched a counterattack on Mortan, attempting to capture Afrance. Discovering that the Germans' biggest tactical mistake provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Allied forces to besiege the Germans in Normandy, Bradley changed his plan and organized the Siege of Falaise (the British and Canadians advanced to Falaise and passed through Aljendam, the Mortan Americans withstood the German counterattack, and the Americans who attacked Le Mans turned north to Aljendam). On August 9, the Allies surrounded about 12 German divisions. Due to problems with coordination, the Allies killed the Germans 10,000, captured 50,000, and about 40,000 Germans broke through. The battle prevented the Germans from setting up defenses along the Seine. On August 25, the Allied forces entered the Seine River, and the American troops under Bradley's command joined the French forces to liberate Paris, the French capital. After the liberation of Paris, Bradley commanded the American troops to advance rapidly, capturing Reims, Chalons, Verdun, Namur, and Liège, and reaching the Siegfried Line (the "Western Barrier"). On October 2, the American troops encircled Aachen on both wings and occupied Aachen on the 2nd. However, due to the German resistance, the destruction of ports and the lack of gasoline and other supplies for the Allies, the Allies were forced to stop the attack and wait for logistical supplies. The plan put forward by Bradley at the Allied Supreme Command Operational Conference on September 22 was adopted by Eisenhower on October 18, that is, the 12th Army Group was the main force, and the troops were divided into two attacks on the Rhine: Bradley started from Aachen, attacked Cologne and Bonn, and advanced through Saar to Frankfurt, and then went north together to surround the Ruhr area; Montgomery, after clearing the remaining enemy in Skelde Bay, attacked from Neigenen to the southeast, directly to the Ruhr area. On November 8, Bradley began to implement the above-mentioned juice plan, but it did not go well. On December 16, 1944, the Germans assembled about 24 divisions and 1,000 aircraft to launch a counterattack on the Ardennes, severely damaging Hodges. Bradley underestimated the possibility of a German counterattack in the Ardennes. The next day, Bradley, Eisenhower and others, after analyzing the German offensive, made clear the main tasks of the Allied forces at present: ¢Ù Resist the Germans who broke into the Ardennes from The North Face and the South, ¢Ú Control St. Vitus and Bastogne on the throat road to the west, ¢Û Organize resistance along the banks of the Maas. The German offensive seriously threatened Bradley's forward command in Luxembourg, and Eisenhower also urged the retreat of the forward command to Verdun. Bradley refused, fearing that the move would shake the hearts of the army. On December 8, Bradley decisively ordered Hodges to turn south and Patton to turn north to meet the Germans. On the 22nd, Patton began an attack, attacking the German salient from south to north. On the 23rd, the Allies began a fierce air assault on the Germans. In order to win British support, Eisenhower temporarily transferred Bradley's 1st and 9th U.S. Army to Montgomery. However, Montgomery did not launch an attack until January 1945. On January 31, 1945, the Allies met at Ufa Leeds, recaptured the salient, and drove the Germans back to their original lines. In the Battle of the Ardennes, the Allied forces at the cost of casualties 77,000, the German casualties 120,000. According to the order of Eisenhower on March 21, Bradley fully organized the implementation of the "low-key" and "navigation" combat plan, led the troops across the Rhine, advanced to Frankfurt, and then advanced into Kassel with all his strength. The Allied plan for the final defeat of Nazi Germany was proposed at the Rheinberg Conference: the US 9th Army and the 1st Army encircled the Germans in the Ruhr area in a north-south attack, and then joined forces in the Paderbos-Kassel area. After that, Bradley would command the 1st Army, 3rd Army, and 9th Group vehicles to launch a large-scale attack from Kassel, through central Germany, and reached the banks of the Elbe River, opposite the Soviet army. Montgomery covered the northern flank and advanced northward, crossing the Elbe River to the Danish border. Devers covered the southern flank and advanced southeast to Austria. This plan, mainly proposed by Eisenhower and Bradley, was known as the "Bradley Plan". On 28 March, Bradley took command of the plan. On 1 April, the British captured Paderborn and completed the encirclement of the German forces in the Ruhr area. On 4 April, the 12th Army Group was fully reconstituted, with a total of 4 armies (US 1st, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 15th Armies), with a strength of about 1.30 million. This is the largest army group in the history of the United States. In order to get close to the command, Bradley moved the headquarters of the Army Group to Wiesbaden, Germany. On 18 April, the besieged Germans surrendered about 320,000. Model, the commander-in-chief of the German Army on the Western Front, shot himself. Before this, on April 6, Bradley ordered to continue the eastward march, a 120-mile drive from Kassel to the Elbe, with the targets of each army group being Leipzig, the bridgehead on the other side of the Elbe, and the Moulder. On April 13, the German line of defense on the Elbe was breached across the river. Bradley immediately prepared to implement the second phase of the battle plan to stop the German escape to the Alps and Norway. To this end, he ordered Patton's army to continue advancing southeast, reaching Linz and the Danube, while the Devers, covering Patton's right flank, advanced eastward through Nuremberg and Munich. On April 15, the Allies launched the final general offensive against Germany. On April 26, American and Soviet troops officially joined forces at Torgau on the Elbe River. On May 7, Nazi Germany announced its unconditional surrender. In August 1945, Bradley became director of the US Veterans Administration. In November 1947, he became the chief of staff of the US Army. In August 1949, Bradley was promoted to chairperson of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and soon became chairperson of the NATO Military Committee and chairperson of its Standing Committee. In September 1950, Bradley was promoted to five-star general of the United States. Bradley participated in planning and organizing the command of the Korean War while serving as chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bradley died in Washington on April 8, 1981. His main books include "The Story of a Soldier".