The post itself is a national historic landmark and is the nation’s most complete original fort from the Indian Wars period. Siltman, Director of Museums and Military History for the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill. “Fort Sill’s history is so broad and long,” said retired Army Col. In addition, Evelyn Urich Einfeldt, who assisted in assembly of the “Enigma” machine that was used to decode German and Japanese transmissions during World War II, is buried at the Fort Sill National Cemetery near Elgin. forces against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and oversaw the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein, served at Fort Sill three times. So did the Army’s first female cannoneer, Katherine Beatty. forces in the Korean War, graduated from the Field Artillery School at the post. military forces in the Vietnam War, served at Fort Sill. William Westmoreland, a future commander of U.S. So did four future superintendents of West Point, seven future Army chiefs of staff, a future chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a future Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and a Lawton draftee who became a four-star general. Military Academy at West Point, New York, served at Fort Sill. Henry Flipper, the first Black man to graduate from the U.S. William Tecumseh Sherman, who commanded the famous “march to the sea” through Georgia and subsequently was appointed General of the Army, visited Fort Sill and was the target of an assassination attempt on Grierson’s porch.
Benjamin Grierson, who led a famous raid through the heart of the Confederacy during the Civil War, a raid that was immortalized in a film. The first commander of Fort Sill was Col. The fort was initially staked out by Maj. Supreme Court Justice (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) lived on the post? Also, feared Comanche war leader Quanah Parker surrendered at Fort Sill and lived on the west range, north of Cache.īut how many people know that one future President of the United States (Harry S Truman) trained near Fort Sill, another future President (William Howard Taft) visited the post, and a future U.S.
FORT SILL – Many people know that the famous Chiricahua Apache leader and medicine man Geronimo is buried at Fort Sill.
0 kommentar(er)
