The Role Of Omar Bradley In The Military

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in the year of 1936, Omar Bradley was brought to Washington two years later for duty with the War Department. Working for General George Marshall, who was the Army Chief of Staff in 1939, Bradley was promoted to brigadier general in February 1941, and sent to command the Infantry School. While there, he promoted the formation of armored and airborne forces as well as developed the prototype Officer Candidate School. With the US entry into World War II on December 7, 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Marshall asked Bradley to prepare for other duty.
“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living” (Bradley 258). Given command of the reactivated 82nd Division, he oversaw its training before fulfilling a similar role for the 28th Division. In both cases, he used Marshall's approach of simplifying military doctrine to
In December, Bradley's front absorbed the brunt of the German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. After stopping the German assault, his men played a key role in pushing the enemy back, with Patton's Third Army making an unprecedented turn north to relieve the 101st Airborne at Bastogne. During the fighting, he was angered when Eisenhower temporarily assigned First Army to Montgomery for logistical reasons.
Promoted to general in March 1945, Bradley led 12th Army Group, now four armies strong, through the final offensives of the war and successfully captured a bridge over the Rhine at Remagen. In a final push, his troops formed the southern arm of a massive pincer movement which captured 300,000 German troops in the Ruhr, before meeting up with Soviet forces at the Elbe