Posted: 9/8/2004 8:03:24 PM EDT
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Quoted: Pershing didn't wear 5 -stars. He was General of the Armies but only wore 4 stars. 5-stars didn't come around until 1944. He is still the highest ranked general, the 5-stars are below "General of the Armies"
This is from a website on Pershings career.
To the end General Pershing was the highest ranking officer of the Army, as General of the Armies. The five-star rank of General of the Army, created by Congress in December, 1944, and given to Gens. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff; Douglas MacArthur, then Commander in the Southwest Pacific; Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, and Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, was still a grade below his.
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It's a NCO promotion board question and the correct answer is Gen. George Washington! Highest-Ranking Officers in U.S. History General and Commander-in-Chief #1
* George Washington (1732–1799), b. Westmoreland County, Va., unanimously voted by Congress on June 15, 1775, to the rank of general and commander-in-chief (of the Continental army).
General of the Armies #2
* John Joseph Pershing (1860–1948), b. Linn County, Mo., made permanent general of the armies, 1919.
General of the Army, General of the Air Force (Five-Stars)
* George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959), b. Uniontown, Pa., promoted Dec. 1944. * Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), b. Little Rock, Ark., promoted Dec. 1944. * Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969), b. Denison, Tex., promoted Dec. 1944. * Henry Harley Arnold (1886–1950), b. Gladwyne, Pa. Arnold had the unique distinction of being a five-star general twice—in 1944 as general of the army, and in June 1949 as general of the air force. He is the only air force general to have held the five-star rank. * Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), b. Clark, Mo., promoted Sept. 1950.
Fleet Admiral (Five-Star)
* William Daniel Leahy (1875–1959), b. Hampton, Iowa, promoted Dec. 1944. * Ernest Joseph King (1878–1956), b. Lorain, Ohio, promoted Dec. 1944. * Chester William Nimitz (1885–1966), b. Fredericksburg, Tex., promoted Dec. 1944. * William Frederick Halsey (1882–1959), b. Elizabeth, N.J., promoted Dec. 1945.
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