Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! But Lyndon Johnson didn't want to overthrow the North Vietnamese government. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. I remember two of our Marines being killed by a youngster who they were teaching to play volleyball. As a midshipman he played football for three years. Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr., American army officer who was one of the most aggressive and effective tank commanders during World War II. Thomas Hinman Moorer (February 9, 1912 – February 5, 2004) was an admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1967 to 1970, and as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974.
He was assigned national SAR member number 99,634 and Alabama Society number 759. Early life and education. A naval aviator in World War II stationed at Pearl Harbor, Moorer r Moorer was born in Mount Willing, Alabama. He was famous…William Yarborough, U.S. Army officer decorated for his service in World War II and highly influential as a special forces pioneer. His father, a dentist, named his son for his favorite professor at Atlanta-Southern Dental College, Dr. Thomas Hinman. He was the son of Dr. Richard Randolph Moorer and Hulda Hill (born Hanson) Moorer. In an interview with the journalist Stanley Karnow in 1981, Moorer expressed much bitterness about how the Vietnam War was fought, saying: "We should have fought in the north, where everyone was the enemy, where you didn't have to worry whether or not you were shooting friendly civilians. military personal decorations, unit awards, campaign awards
Originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year. Rather, they are presented on the site as archival content, intended for historical reference only. He was late Thomas Hinman Moorer was born on February 9th, 1912, in Mount Willing, a small community about twenty-five miles southwest of Montgomery in Lowndes County, Alabama. He is often called the father of the Green Berets. This article was most recently revised and updated by Thomas Moorer was born in Mt. He graduated in 1933. Moorer was raised in Eufaula, Alabama. History at your fingertips provides an overview of the year’s most-notable people and events. On March 31, 1970 he became a member of the Alabama Society of the In addition to his carrier-based fighter experience, Moorer also qualified in Promoted to vice admiral in 1962, and to admiral in 1964, Moorer served both as Commander-in-Chief of the While Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Moorer personally masterminded the 1972 mining of Excerpts from Moorer's diary during his time as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were recently declassified, and includes a note about an Air Force general telling the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a 1971 meeting that in a nuclear war the United States “could lose two hundred million people and still have more than we had at the time of the Civil War.”Upon completion of his second two-year term as CJCS, Moorer retired from the Navy on July 1, 1974. His father, a dentist, named his son for his favorite professor at Atlanta-Southern Dental College, Dr. Thomas Hinman. He commanded (1968–72) all U.S. forces in Vietnam during the latter stages of the Vietnam War and served as U.S. Army chief of staff (1972–74). Unlike most articles on Britannica.com, Book of the Year articles are not reviewed and revised after their initial publication.