List of People From Missouri - Military

Military

  • William T. Anderson (1838–1864), a.k.a. "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Confederate guerrilla leader in the Civil War
  • Omar Bradley (1893–1981), World War II general, from Clark, Missouri.
  • Robert Coontz (1864–1935), US Navy Admiral, former Chief of Naval Operations
  • Enoch Crowder (1859–1932), US Army General and reformer of military justice system.
  • Randall "Duke" Cunningham, only U.S. Navy Ace in the Vietnam War, later a U.S. Congressman from California.
  • James Phillip Fleming, (born 1943), USAF pilot, awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Vietnam War.
  • John C. Fremont (1813–1890), Western explorer, Union Civil War general and first Republican candidate for U.S. President.
  • John McNeil (1813–1891), Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War, known as "The Butcher of Palmyra".
  • Wayne E. Meyer (1926-2009), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. Considered "Father of the Aegis weapons system".
  • Floyd B. Parks (1911-1942), U.S. Marine aviator who earned the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions leading Marine fighter squadron VMF-221 during the Battle of Midway.
  • John Henry Parker, (1866–1942), a.k.a."Gatling Gun Parker". Hero in the Spanish-American War, only U.S. soldier to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times in World War I.
  • John J. Pershing (1860–1948), soldier, General of the Armies. Born in Laclede, Missouri.
  • Sterling Price, Confederate States Army, General of the Missouri State Guard during the Civil War
  • William Quantrill (1837–1865), Confederate guerrilla leader (Quantrill's Raiders) in the Civil War.
  • John H. Quick, (1870–1922), U.S. Marine awarded the Medal of Honor in the Spanish-American War, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross in World War I.
  • James E. Rieger (1874-1951), Colonel Mo. National Guard. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross & Croix de guerre in World War I.
  • Maxwell D. Taylor (1901-1987), U.S. Army General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • George Allison Whiteman, (1919–1941), the first United States Army Air Corps pilot killed in World War II. Awarded the Silver Star posthumously for after being shot down in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Arthur L. Willard, (1870–1935), United States Navy Vice Admiral, winner of Navy Cross, French Legion of Honor, and Belgian Order of Leopold. First man to plant American flag on Cuban soil in the Spanish-American War.

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
    —Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)