WEBVTT 00:07.740 --> 00:08.740 just just 00:11.420 --> 00:13.520 ladies and gentlemen . Mr walter , 00:13.520 --> 00:16.250 Matthau Omar nelson Bradley , one of 00:16.250 --> 00:18.194 our very great soldiers , has been 00:18.194 --> 00:20.139 described as a quiet gentlemen who 00:20.139 --> 00:22.430 might pass for a professor . But there 00:22.430 --> 00:24.652 is an unmistakable quality of greatness 00:24.652 --> 00:25.930 in his simple manner , 00:25.930 --> 00:28.280 straightforwardness and his deep 00:28.280 --> 00:31.200 concern for humanity , recognized as a 00:31.200 --> 00:33.033 master strategist . He was given 00:33.033 --> 00:35.200 command of the forces that spearheaded 00:35.200 --> 00:37.256 and carried through to victory , the 00:37.256 --> 00:39.422 campaigns and the invasion of Hitler's 00:39.422 --> 00:41.256 europe . While the headlines and 00:41.256 --> 00:43.311 popular applause fell to others . It 00:43.311 --> 00:45.422 was Bradley , the quiet infantryman , 00:45.422 --> 00:47.367 and his old trench coat , trudging 00:47.367 --> 00:47.280 through the scarred battlefields , who 00:47.280 --> 00:49.336 held the fate of his soldiers in his 00:49.336 --> 00:51.280 hand when it was over , a grateful 00:51.280 --> 00:53.336 chief of staff saluted him with this 00:53.336 --> 00:55.447 simple statement . All our confidence 00:55.447 --> 00:57.680 in you has been justified . It is with 00:57.680 --> 00:59.791 great pride that we present the story 00:59.791 --> 01:03.150 of general Omar nelson Bradley . Mhm . 01:30.940 --> 01:33.600 Yeah . 50 miles from the Missouri River 01:33.600 --> 01:35.656 on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln . 01:35.656 --> 01:37.822 Omar Bradley was born into the home of 01:37.822 --> 01:39.933 a poorly paid country schoolteacher . 01:40.150 --> 01:43.300 The year was 1893 . In countries such 01:43.300 --> 01:45.860 as this , he learned to fish on Quayle 01:45.870 --> 01:47.070 became an expert 01:47.070 --> 01:51.830 marksman . 01:52.440 --> 01:55.340 He was the only child the name Omar 01:55.340 --> 01:57.400 came from a family friend , not the 01:57.400 --> 01:58.160 Persian poet 02:01.440 --> 02:05.120 Bradley idolized his 02:05.120 --> 02:07.400 father , acquiring from him a way of 02:07.400 --> 02:10.070 life to patch up the family budget . 02:10.080 --> 02:12.820 The elder Bradley did some farming From 02:12.820 --> 02:14.709 such routes . The boy learned the 02:14.709 --> 02:16.931 meaning of patience . The patience that 02:16.931 --> 02:19.870 comes with fishing Bradley was only 14 02:19.870 --> 02:23.450 when his father died 02:26.740 --> 02:29.760 after high school . What ? It was hard 02:29.760 --> 02:32.880 to say . He sold newspapers , worked at 02:32.880 --> 02:35.010 the Wabash Railroad shops at 17 cents 02:35.010 --> 02:37.380 an hour , but a sunday schoolteacher 02:37.380 --> 02:38.560 suggested West Point 02:41.750 --> 02:44.640 and West Point . It became the United 02:44.640 --> 02:46.084 States Military Academy . 02:48.840 --> 02:51.560 Here had studied lee grant Pershing . 02:52.040 --> 02:54.960 The class of 1915 , Brats . Class was 02:54.960 --> 02:57.640 to furnish 56 generals , one could say 02:57.640 --> 03:00.710 of Bradley as quiet as the Hudson , a 03:00.720 --> 03:02.887 trait that was duly noted by his class 03:02.887 --> 03:05.360 biographer . True merit is like a river . 03:05.370 --> 03:07.426 The deeper it is , the less noise it 03:07.426 --> 03:08.750 makes . Wow . 03:13.740 --> 03:15.660 This was Bradley . 03:19.140 --> 03:23.120 Mhm . Yeah . And 03:23.120 --> 03:25.330 they wrote further of him , his most 03:25.330 --> 03:27.330 prominent characteristic is getting 03:27.330 --> 03:30.000 there . Just how much prophecy was in 03:30.000 --> 03:31.860 this remark . Let us see 03:34.340 --> 03:37.220 in World War , he commanded an infantry 03:37.220 --> 03:39.442 company at the butte Montana compromise 03:39.840 --> 03:43.130 his own evaluation ruin . He was left 03:43.140 --> 03:44.196 out of the fight , 03:47.340 --> 03:50.510 1920 , ordered to West Point as an 03:50.510 --> 03:52.020 instructor in mathematics 03:52.030 --> 03:55.930 from 1924 03:55.930 --> 03:59.320 to 1939 . Army schools , routine duty 03:59.320 --> 04:01.209 periods with troops in the United 04:01.209 --> 04:03.550 States and Hawaii , then onto general 04:03.550 --> 04:06.750 staff in Washington . Finally , in the 04:06.750 --> 04:09.650 early part of 1941 , commandant of the 04:09.650 --> 04:11.983 infantry school at Fort Benning Georgia , 04:11.983 --> 04:14.470 was he getting there ? Well , he was 04:14.470 --> 04:16.414 acquiring the reputation of a fine 04:16.414 --> 04:17.470 infantry officer . 04:21.940 --> 04:25.790 There wasn't a 04:25.800 --> 04:27.633 thing these men did that Bradley 04:27.633 --> 04:29.580 couldn't or wouldn't do for he had 04:29.590 --> 04:31.090 great physical endurance . 04:35.040 --> 04:36.040 Mhm 04:47.140 --> 04:50.940 February 1943 , Bradley was in florida 04:50.950 --> 04:53.172 training a division for duty overseas . 04:53.340 --> 04:55.396 World War two was in its second year 04:55.396 --> 04:57.507 for the United States and Bradley was 04:57.507 --> 05:00.820 to be included in the fight . Word 05:00.820 --> 05:04.590 finally came to report to french North 05:04.590 --> 05:05.150 Africa . 05:10.640 --> 05:12.473 The battle of europe was to be a 05:12.473 --> 05:14.529 doughboys battle . And leading these 05:14.529 --> 05:16.696 doughboys was a man who in the work of 05:16.696 --> 05:18.710 General Marshall was fit for any 05:18.710 --> 05:19.932 command in the army . 05:25.040 --> 05:26.040 Mhm . 05:27.940 --> 05:31.250 For the first time in 32 years as a 05:31.250 --> 05:33.560 soldier , Bradley was off to war , 05:33.870 --> 05:35.926 selected by Chief of Staff . General 05:35.926 --> 05:37.759 George C . Marshall who had been 05:37.759 --> 05:39.759 watching this great infantryman for 05:39.759 --> 05:42.090 years now . As deputy commander and 05:42.090 --> 05:44.312 commander of the U . S . Second Corps , 05:44.312 --> 05:46.534 he helped push the tunisian campaign to 05:46.534 --> 05:50.300 victory . Yeah , british Commander , 05:50.300 --> 05:53.050 General Sir alexander says well done , 05:55.910 --> 05:59.050 Bradley tells all about it . In his 05:59.050 --> 06:01.580 book , a soldier's story . Was he 06:01.590 --> 06:03.790 getting there ? As they would say out 06:03.790 --> 06:05.920 in Bradley's country , he fought to 06:05.930 --> 06:08.750 beat the band after Africa . The 06:08.750 --> 06:09.930 invasion of Sicily 06:20.940 --> 06:23.051 Bradley took second corps into Sicily 06:23.051 --> 06:25.384 under General George S Patton's command . 06:25.660 --> 06:27.882 Plans for the channel assault on France 06:27.882 --> 06:29.771 were well underway . When General 06:29.771 --> 06:31.970 Marshall sent word to Eisenhower , My 06:31.970 --> 06:34.440 choice has been Bradley . He meant for 06:34.440 --> 06:36.662 Bradley to lead the american forces for 06:36.662 --> 06:38.884 the great Normandy invasion . Operation 06:38.884 --> 06:39.560 Overlord . 06:54.240 --> 06:55.240 Yeah . 07:31.340 --> 07:33.673 As commanding general of the First Army , 07:33.810 --> 07:36.440 Bradley was ashore less than 24 hours 07:36.440 --> 07:38.496 after the first Allied units hit the 07:38.496 --> 07:42.400 Normandy beaches . Mhm The battle of 07:42.400 --> 07:45.160 europe was to be a doughboys battle and 07:45.160 --> 07:47.382 leading these doughboys was a man who , 07:47.382 --> 07:49.438 in the words of General Marshall was 07:49.438 --> 07:51.216 fit for any command in the army 07:56.140 --> 08:02.040 A 08:02.050 --> 08:04.190 week after D . Day and we had linked 08:04.190 --> 08:05.968 the Allied forces together in a 08:05.968 --> 08:08.540 beachhead 42 miles wide . A prime 08:08.540 --> 08:10.540 objective report of Sherborne . 08:13.750 --> 08:17.480 As Bradley's first army 08:17.480 --> 08:19.780 pushed ahead . Happy Frenchman began to 08:19.780 --> 08:21.502 breathe the first fresh air of 08:21.502 --> 08:23.960 liberation and we began to feel at home . 08:27.240 --> 08:30.460 Mhm . Okay , Okay . 08:33.840 --> 08:39.330 They 08:39.340 --> 08:41.920 were a hard nut to crack those Nazis at 08:41.920 --> 08:44.087 all costs . They meant to keep us from 08:44.087 --> 08:46.253 getting a harbor , a suitable port for 08:46.253 --> 08:47.253 our supplies . 08:56.940 --> 08:58.050 Mm hmm . Mhm . 08:59.140 --> 09:03.040 Nazi commanders now felt the power 09:03.040 --> 09:05.470 of Bradley's punch . For once , Bradley 09:05.470 --> 09:07.640 made up his mind . He moved swiftly , 09:07.640 --> 09:10.040 relentlessly . Yeah . 09:10.440 --> 09:13.380 Was he getting there ? 09:13.450 --> 09:16.520 Following the Battle of San Low . He 09:16.520 --> 09:19.650 headed the 12th Army Group . Mhm . 09:20.140 --> 09:22.950 As american forces plowed ahead , they 09:22.950 --> 09:25.210 moved out of the peninsula , then 09:25.220 --> 09:28.260 toward and beyond . Paris 43 divisions 09:28.260 --> 09:30.260 were to be deployed under Bradley's 09:30.260 --> 09:32.760 command . The 12th Army Group included . 09:33.640 --> 09:36.760 General Courtney H . Hodges , 1st Army , 09:38.240 --> 09:41.190 mm . General George S . Patton jr's 3rd 09:41.190 --> 09:41.660 Army . 09:44.340 --> 09:47.760 General William H . Simpson's 9th Army 09:50.360 --> 09:53.150 And General Leonard T . Gerow 15th Army . 09:57.540 --> 09:59.651 No . Sit back at headquarters type of 09:59.651 --> 10:01.762 General Bradley inspected a battle in 10:01.762 --> 10:04.250 person traveling in an ordinary jean , 10:07.940 --> 10:11.440 mm . Yeah . 10:15.440 --> 10:17.273 There wasn't a bit of glamour or 10:17.273 --> 10:19.760 fanfare in his whole tall , lanky frame , 10:20.340 --> 10:22.350 he got the most out of his men by 10:22.350 --> 10:23.470 patient goodwill . 10:28.280 --> 10:31.210 He knew every division commander by his 10:31.210 --> 10:33.530 first name , when an officer performed 10:33.530 --> 10:35.641 as he expected him to , he gave him a 10:35.641 --> 10:38.030 free hand . When he hesitated , he 10:38.030 --> 10:40.350 tried to help him . And when he failed , 10:40.740 --> 10:42.880 Bradley , relieved him and all 10:42.880 --> 10:43.880 respected him . 10:45.840 --> 10:48.590 Even Patton , Bradley's chief in french 10:48.590 --> 10:51.210 north Africa . And Sicily , in fact , 10:51.220 --> 10:53.109 George S Patton became one of his 10:53.109 --> 10:55.640 closest friends . Yeah , 10:59.240 --> 11:02.610 mm . Yeah . Mhm . Yeah , 11:03.540 --> 11:04.050 mm . 11:15.700 --> 11:17.867 And what did Bradley think of the boss 11:17.867 --> 11:19.867 and vice versa ? There was a mutual 11:19.867 --> 11:22.033 trust , stout hearted and confident of 11:22.033 --> 11:24.200 result was the way the chief described 11:24.200 --> 11:26.650 Bradley . Many battles justified faith 11:26.650 --> 11:28.872 in Bradley , but one especially was the 11:28.872 --> 11:31.560 big break out . 11:32.540 --> 11:32.960 Mhm . 11:37.740 --> 11:41.080 The battle for 11:41.080 --> 11:43.240 salo and the breakthrough from a 11:43.240 --> 11:45.520 peninsula , one of the most decisive 11:45.530 --> 11:47.697 battles of Bradley's military career . 11:47.697 --> 11:51.840 The 11:51.850 --> 11:53.906 breakthrough cracked the back of the 11:53.906 --> 11:54.906 Nazi Vermont 11:57.110 --> 12:00.000 Bradley had created it planned it down 12:00.000 --> 12:01.167 to the last detail . 12:10.040 --> 12:11.040 Yeah . 12:24.240 --> 12:26.184 Uprooting meant taking quicker and 12:26.184 --> 12:27.851 firmer root in freedom soil . 12:29.460 --> 12:32.580 Out came our armies . The way was 12:32.580 --> 12:34.570 opened . The way to paris 12:34.580 --> 12:39.350 way . 12:40.040 --> 12:42.280 I was going to tell you this 12:46.740 --> 12:47.740 right . 12:52.040 --> 12:54.350 The enemy west of paris was destroyed 12:54.840 --> 12:57.050 as he fell . The liberation of France 12:57.050 --> 12:59.520 lay only days away that the Bradley 12:59.520 --> 13:01.290 breakthrough work was due to a 13:01.290 --> 13:04.260 soldier's determination . 13:07.770 --> 13:11.600 Our hopes now ran high for a quick end 13:11.600 --> 13:14.750 to the war in europe . Mhm . Mhm . 13:36.140 --> 13:38.060 Paris liberated 13:41.940 --> 13:43.960 Bradley could have gone into paris 13:43.960 --> 13:46.170 himself . But the quiet man from 13:46.170 --> 13:48.281 Missouri was not built like that . He 13:48.281 --> 13:50.650 had waited for his chief . 14:04.940 --> 14:05.290 I am 14:07.340 --> 14:10.660 a liberated nation , honored him . 14:11.040 --> 14:13.390 Bradley was to receive many decorations 14:13.540 --> 14:15.373 as well as honorary degrees from 14:15.373 --> 14:17.570 universities . Someone has said of 14:17.570 --> 14:19.490 Bradley that he always behaves as 14:19.490 --> 14:21.657 though he were a civilian among men in 14:21.657 --> 14:24.950 uniform . Mhm . Mhm . 14:26.740 --> 14:29.470 Mhm . Even as paris celebrated , 14:29.480 --> 14:31.610 something was happening After the 14:31.620 --> 14:33.842 fastest blitz of modern war . We had to 14:33.842 --> 14:36.460 apply the brakes . Logistics . That age 14:36.460 --> 14:38.349 old problem of supplying a mighty 14:38.349 --> 14:40.571 fighting force on the offensive had run 14:40.571 --> 14:42.349 into difficulties . We had lost 14:42.349 --> 14:45.950 momentum . 14:48.440 --> 14:51.300 The deep stalemate of winter set in 15:03.850 --> 15:06.240 then quite suddenly , yeah . 15:08.040 --> 15:10.590 Counter attack . The battle of the 15:10.590 --> 15:12.690 bulge . The greatest crisis in 15:12.690 --> 15:15.560 Bradley's military career . 15:18.840 --> 15:21.740 Dark moments , unpredictable moments . 15:21.780 --> 15:24.710 It was the enemy's dying crust . We 15:24.710 --> 15:25.766 were thrown back . 15:38.220 --> 15:40.220 Even when the enemy was a few miles 15:40.220 --> 15:42.442 from his headquarters , Bradley refused 15:42.442 --> 15:44.553 to move back . He reasons such a move 15:44.553 --> 15:47.540 could destroy confidence . Yeah . Your 15:47.540 --> 15:50.550 identification general from stars down , 15:50.550 --> 15:52.661 solid proof was needed . These trying 15:52.661 --> 15:54.883 days that you were not a Nazi disguised 15:54.883 --> 15:55.883 as an american . 16:00.040 --> 16:01.040 Mm hmm . 16:02.740 --> 16:06.700 The 16:06.710 --> 16:09.290 battle of the Bulge over the rhyme soon 16:09.290 --> 16:10.290 came into view . 16:21.340 --> 16:23.700 Mm . There wasn't much more to it . 16:23.700 --> 16:26.640 After this operation Overlord , which 16:26.640 --> 16:28.807 had swept a relatively unknown general 16:28.807 --> 16:30.807 into great prominence , had blasted 16:30.807 --> 16:32.400 asunder . The myth of Nazi 16:32.410 --> 16:33.430 invulnerability . 16:36.340 --> 16:40.000 Okay . From the Omaha 16:40.000 --> 16:42.360 beachhead to Berlin , A stunned enemy . 16:42.360 --> 16:44.471 Wondered how it could have happened . 16:47.340 --> 16:51.230 Mhm Farm Boy 16:51.240 --> 16:54.070 to four Stars . Was he getting there ? 16:56.340 --> 16:57.360 Mhm Yeah , 17:01.640 --> 17:03.700 true to american tradition . The job 17:03.700 --> 17:06.030 helped make the man and the man made 17:06.030 --> 17:08.840 history and he never once lost his 17:08.840 --> 17:09.560 humility . 17:13.740 --> 17:15.560 Mhm . Mhm . 17:17.540 --> 17:19.550 Was there room for a 5th star . 17:26.040 --> 17:28.120 As chairman of the Joint Chiefs , 17:28.130 --> 17:30.297 America's top soldier took his seat at 17:30.297 --> 17:32.130 the first meeting of the Defence 17:32.130 --> 17:34.297 Committee of the North atlantic Treaty 17:34.297 --> 17:36.186 Organization held in Washington . 17:41.540 --> 17:45.460 Yeah , yeah . 17:45.840 --> 17:48.560 With a soldier's determination , but no , 17:49.040 --> 17:50.818 with the determination of a man 17:50.818 --> 17:52.984 enjoying the softer moments of peace , 17:53.240 --> 17:55.560 Bradley , A top notch golfer scores 17:55.560 --> 17:56.782 high on the fairway , 17:59.540 --> 18:03.040 right ? Yeah , 18:04.640 --> 18:06.584 but a hop skip and a jump from the 18:06.584 --> 18:08.640 fairway was busy Washington . And in 18:08.640 --> 18:10.862 post war , America Bradley played a big 18:10.862 --> 18:13.330 role in world affairs affairs as they 18:13.330 --> 18:15.552 pertained to our survival as a nation . 18:16.840 --> 18:21.760 We 18:21.760 --> 18:24.470 see him here in the fall of 1948 as 18:24.480 --> 18:27.190 Army Chief of Staff , prior to becoming 18:27.190 --> 18:29.190 the Army's chief . He had spent two 18:29.190 --> 18:30.968 years as veterans administrator 18:32.340 --> 18:35.400 with him are Air Chief Hoyt Vandenberg 18:35.410 --> 18:38.760 and Navy Chief Louis C Denville 18:41.550 --> 18:44.740 in Bradley's characteristic way he 18:44.740 --> 18:46.351 considered his job . Another 18:46.351 --> 18:48.570 opportunity to serve his country . And 18:48.570 --> 18:51.450 America needed him for a new type of 18:51.450 --> 18:54.390 world jitters had set him the Cold War 18:54.440 --> 18:57.020 modelled by the Kremlin . For example , 18:57.020 --> 19:00.430 the Great Airlift of 1948 and 1949 19:00.440 --> 19:02.551 starve the people of West Berlin came 19:02.551 --> 19:04.780 orders from Moscow . So the Red Army 19:04.780 --> 19:06.780 imposed a blockade on all overland 19:06.780 --> 19:09.002 transport between Berlin and the West . 19:09.440 --> 19:11.350 All trade stopped . Mhm . 19:14.940 --> 19:17.380 Industrial paralysis threatened West 19:17.380 --> 19:20.870 Berlin , but not for 19:20.870 --> 19:24.550 long . The air was still free and from 19:24.550 --> 19:26.383 the free nations poured fabulous 19:26.383 --> 19:28.960 supplies for the people of West Berlin . 19:32.940 --> 19:33.940 Mhm . 19:33.940 --> 19:41.920 The 19:41.930 --> 19:44.720 airlift broke the blockade . Our first 19:44.720 --> 19:47.370 victory in the Cold War . This type of 19:47.370 --> 19:49.426 war called for a reassessment of our 19:49.426 --> 19:53.340 military objectives . Mhm . And 19:53.340 --> 19:55.229 that's where Bradley fit into the 19:55.229 --> 19:57.660 picture . He became a globetrotter . A 19:57.660 --> 20:00.150 sort of soldier diplomat . Here we see 20:00.150 --> 20:02.410 him arriving in Germany . His mission 20:02.610 --> 20:04.410 to discuss plans for collective 20:04.410 --> 20:06.410 security with member nations of the 20:06.410 --> 20:08.521 North atlantic alliance . This was to 20:08.521 --> 20:10.580 be insurance against aggression by 20:10.580 --> 20:11.580 soviet Russia . 20:16.640 --> 20:20.060 Yeah , Bradley , the world headliner ? 20:20.540 --> 20:24.510 Mm . Mhm . The story of 20:24.520 --> 20:26.464 Omar Bradley would not be complete 20:26.730 --> 20:28.674 without mentioning the former mary 20:28.674 --> 20:30.841 Elizabeth Quayle who married Bradley a 20:30.841 --> 20:32.841 year after his graduation from West 20:32.841 --> 20:35.008 Point . Here she watches Bradley being 20:35.008 --> 20:36.897 sworn in as chairman of the Joint 20:36.897 --> 20:39.063 Chiefs of Staff . By Defense Secretary 20:39.063 --> 20:41.670 johnson . Mhm . 20:45.440 --> 20:47.440 With great pride . Mrs Bradley will 20:47.440 --> 20:49.440 tell you that Omar is a considerate 20:49.440 --> 20:50.496 husband and father 20:54.940 --> 20:57.170 as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs . 20:57.180 --> 20:59.347 America's top soldier took his seat at 20:59.347 --> 21:01.180 the first meeting of the Defence 21:01.180 --> 21:03.347 Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty 21:03.347 --> 21:05.236 Organization held in Washington . 21:08.540 --> 21:09.540 Mhm . 21:12.540 --> 21:15.060 Yeah . Mm . 21:16.210 --> 21:19.260 To resist aggression , That was the 21:19.260 --> 21:23.120 keynote . Yeah . Yes , there 21:23.120 --> 21:25.530 was room for a 5th star by Act of 21:25.530 --> 21:27.480 Congress and the deep respect and 21:27.480 --> 21:29.480 admiration of a fellow Missourian . 21:30.340 --> 21:33.700 Yeah . A little trouble with the pin . 21:34.110 --> 21:36.332 But both Bradley and the president made 21:36.332 --> 21:37.560 it mm , 21:44.940 --> 21:47.460 mm . Mhm . 21:51.040 --> 21:53.280 Farm boy to frequent visitor at the 21:53.280 --> 21:56.310 White House . This is early in 1951 . 21:56.310 --> 21:58.690 At a security council meeting , he sits 21:58.690 --> 22:00.580 beside the man who along with his 22:00.580 --> 22:03.330 father signalized his ideals in life . 22:03.340 --> 22:05.330 General marshall at this time , 22:05.330 --> 22:06.590 Secretary of Defense 22:10.090 --> 22:11.979 and again at the White House with 22:11.979 --> 22:13.868 Ministers of defense and military 22:13.868 --> 22:15.979 advisers of the North atlantic treaty 22:15.979 --> 22:17.450 Organization . Well , mhm 22:21.840 --> 22:24.320 Bradley paid almost 300 visits to the 22:24.320 --> 22:26.790 White House , many of them to brief the 22:26.790 --> 22:30.660 president on the progress of the war 22:30.670 --> 22:34.260 in Korea . Again , he visited war rooms 22:34.620 --> 22:36.509 this time under the banner of the 22:36.509 --> 22:38.800 United Nations . As a global military 22:38.800 --> 22:41.050 strategist , Bradley believed that we 22:41.050 --> 22:43.272 should not press our military advantage 22:43.272 --> 22:45.470 too far in this one area of Communist 22:45.470 --> 22:46.470 aggression . 22:50.440 --> 22:54.360 Fighting raged from June 1952 , 22:54.370 --> 22:55.370 July 1953 . 23:00.560 --> 23:01.010 Yeah , 23:05.840 --> 23:07.770 yeah . Mm . 23:13.470 --> 23:16.300 These were precarious time at stake . 23:16.310 --> 23:19.170 Was our global prestige . Our voice in 23:19.170 --> 23:20.580 the free world . 23:29.160 --> 23:33.080 This war wore by satellite was a 23:33.080 --> 23:35.360 new type of soviet aggression where the 23:35.360 --> 23:37.304 Kremlin directed a conflict in the 23:37.304 --> 23:38.916 front yard of korean holes . 23:41.550 --> 23:43.950 As in World War Two , Bradley helped 23:43.950 --> 23:45.839 direct allied forces close to the 23:45.839 --> 23:49.160 battle lines . All right , 23:49.640 --> 23:50.960 Yeah . Mhm . 23:53.140 --> 23:56.630 Yeah . And so it came to 23:56.630 --> 24:00.360 pass From the year 1915 . A West Point 24:00.360 --> 24:02.860 classmate of Bradley's hike by name 24:02.870 --> 24:05.570 went places too . Becoming president of 24:05.570 --> 24:08.160 the United States . He is playing host 24:08.160 --> 24:10.271 here to our top soldier of the nation 24:10.271 --> 24:12.327 And other members of the class of 15 24:12.540 --> 24:16.330 Time May 1953 . Shortly before 24:16.330 --> 24:18.497 Bradley's leaving active assignments , 24:21.040 --> 24:24.760 it 24:24.760 --> 24:26.927 seemed fitting at this time to name an 24:26.927 --> 24:28.593 american town after Bradley . 24:31.440 --> 24:34.360 To quote Bradley , no boy ever came out 24:34.360 --> 24:36.710 of an army camp with any more or any 24:36.710 --> 24:39.480 less moral fiber and any more or less 24:39.480 --> 24:41.620 courage than he had when he left his 24:41.620 --> 24:42.970 family fireside , 24:44.540 --> 24:48.060 Bradley , west Virginia On US Route 24:48.060 --> 24:50.620 21 between Beckley and Mount Hope . 24:51.440 --> 24:52.440 Yeah . 24:59.250 --> 25:02.170 Did he get there ? Well , seems like 25:02.170 --> 25:05.020 there's more to do mission to help in 25:05.020 --> 25:06.464 military reorganization . 25:08.580 --> 25:09.140 Yeah , 25:09.590 --> 25:13.430 way has 25:13.430 --> 25:15.652 come a long way This general , from the 25:15.652 --> 25:18.410 humble roots of America to enrich our 25:18.410 --> 25:20.920 heritage of service to mankind and love 25:20.920 --> 25:24.220 of country , a living monument among 25:24.220 --> 25:26.160 the truly great men of history . 25:34.940 --> 25:35.940 Yeah . 25:42.040 --> 25:43.040 Okay . 25:48.040 --> 25:50.550 Yeah . Uh huh . 26:00.540 --> 26:01.960 Yeah . Mhm .