Though he had landed on the beaches of Normandy and been
wounded in battle fighting with the U.S. Army, Staff Sergeant
Marcario García was not yet a U.S. citizen when President
Harry S. Truman awarded him the Medal of Honor on August
23, 1945. García became the first Mexican national to receive
the American military’s highest honor.
President Truman honoring Macario Garcia.
In a ceremony held at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, General
Dwight D. Eisenhower (above) appointed Florence Blanchfield to
be a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, making her the first
woman in U.S. history to hold permanent military rank.
A member of the Army Nurse Corps since 1917, Blanchfield secured
her commission following the passage of the Army-Navy Nurse Act
of 1947 by Congress.
Blanchfield had served as superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during World War II and was instrumental in securing passage of
the Army-Navy Nurse Act.
In 1951, Blanchfield received the Florence Nightingale Award from
the International Red Cross. In 1978, a U.S. Army hospital in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was named in her honor.
Florence Aby Blanchfield (April 1, 1884 in Shepherdstown,
West Virginia – May 12, 1971)
(FOX NEWS) – Loretta Swit, who starred as quick-witted Major
Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the TV series "M*A*S*H," has
died. She was 87.
A spokesperson for the actress confirmed to Fox News Digital
that Swit passed away on Friday at her home in New York City.
The suspected cause of death is natural causes.
The war comedy/drama TV series aired on CBS from
September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983.
On March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S.
Army, starting his day as the King of Rock and Roll, but
ending it as a lowly buck private in the United States Army.
When Elvis Presley turned 18 on January 8, 1953, he fulfilled
his patriotic duty and legal obligation to register his name
with the Selective Service System, thereby making himself
eligible for the draft.
General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.
While some have mourned what was a tragic loss at the time,
others over the decades have theorized Patton’s death was
anything but an accident.
Fueling speculation that the accident involving a U.S. Army
truck was not an accident but a coordinated assassination.
A soldier inspects the damage to the car General Patton was riding in when the accident that would prove fatal occurred.
The damage to the front end of the vehicle was substantial.
On the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.
