Remember, this was when aids to navigation was in its infancy (little more than primitive RDF beacon homing, and LORAN at the very end of the war) and flying was still pretty much by the seat of the pants. Brass had to get to primitive airfields in all kinds of weather, with pilots who may not have even flown to the place beforehand.
look up the number of aircraft and aircrew killed in non-combat conditions in the war and you'll see nearly 40% ... a bit higher than the average for US forces..around 36% killed in non-combat conditions. That said it is still the pilot flying the aircraft.....It doesn't crash by itself without the "aid' of a human.
well the military had over 16 million personnel during the war and lots of those general officer positions where actually temporary ranks to manage the large numbers of personnel.
@@AnthonyBerardis-r1p ... and I guess it's not worth mentioning his name? Like we'll just take your word for it? Like that's enough information to satisfy a normal person's curiosity> IOW, "WHAT????" sheesh... all you coy, "I know something and I'm not gonna tell!" children.
Brigadier General Allan C McBride died of starvation in a POW camp, Formosa. the Japanese were beyond brutal. Very hard to forgive, even all these years later.
The Japanese fought a terribly brutal war from the 30's in China right through to Hiroshima. They have never atoned or attempted to make any semblance of an apology to all the poeples of all the countries they brutalized. Probably the closest would be to the women of the Philipines who were treated so terrible during the Japanese occupation of the islands. My Dad was in the South Pacific during WW2 and never forgave them. He suffered from PTSD until the day he died.
@@B25gunship my stepdad was with MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific Theatre. He spoke rarely about his war years, and always choked back tears when he did. Like your dad, he suffered from PTSD but managed to have a wonderful long life with loving sons, grandchildren, and stepchildren.
Maintenance was difficult at the front lines. Definitely an added risk. Mostly engine failure or miss fire on take off...with full fuel and possible bomb load.
@@AmericasChoice Not just inadequate maintenance, but also an incentive to "push as many planes into the air every day"; if it had wings, running engines and passed the preflight, it was pushed into the air; US counted on sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy
@@rayzimmerman2242 That is basically what I said. And that whole "numbers" thing is BS. US aircraft were very good, and just as good as anything the UK or Germany produced.
Plane crashes are rougher on generals than on rock stars. I remember reading about the admiral lost at sea. A man was seen overboard so all hands had to muster and be accounted for. Repeated musters found nobody missing. When they tried to report this to the admiral he could not be found.
General Pratt was killed in a glider crash on D-Day. For "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg changed his name and created the fiction that the crash was because the general had put armor plating in his glider, which threw off its landing characteristics.
No the pilots of the glider explain that the general had extra armor added without letting them know ( in the movie Saving Private Ryan) and it made the glider impossible to control. The general in the movie was crushed by his Jeep when they crashed and when the group looking for private Ryan came on the crash site they called it ( the situation) “ fubar”.
Lots of glider related casualties on D-Day. Spielberg didn't have to make anything up. Seems like he was just trying to throw in some message about how stupid top brass are when the premise of the movie was already that their mission was some stupid mission dreamed up by command. Spielberg can make big blockbusters but he's never been good at subtlety.
You didn't miss him - he wasn't on this list for some strange reason. Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt died from a heart attack on July 12, 1945 - just a lit longer than a month after he was the first U.S. General Officer to land in Normandy (Utah beach). He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on June 6th, 1944. He was promoted to Commander, 90th Infantry Division the morning of his death. George Patton once said of him: "He was one of the bravest men I ever knew".
Orlando Darby was a Colonel when he was killed in April 1945. His promotion to General was after he died. He commanded the 1st Ranger Division known as Darby' s Rangers
He was killed during Operation Cobra, massive medium and high level bombing of German lines to facilitate a post D-Day break out in the Bocage region. Mission creap back cause tons of bombs to fall on our own lines. I am sure you know about this, but I just wanted to flesh out what happened. It seriously affected US forces morale for many weeks...
Not-so-fun fact: His body was only identified by the lieutenant general's stars on what remained of his shirt. There were so many men from the 30th whose remains were never identified due to errors in communication.
@@danielburgess7785 if you made a video of every col or general relieved during ww2 it would be 13 hours long Since this video included navel flag officers, include rear admirals and captains if you going include colonels Get it It didn’t say “13th hour” It said 13 hour
True, but the title says 'killed'... I guess the number of generals and admirals that died from heart attacks or illnesses on the battlefield (and POW camps) would more than double the size of this list.
when we first started bombing Europe is was almost suicide so they decided if you completed 25 missions you got to rotate home, it was a very big deal when the first crew survived 25 missions
You missed Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (second general at the beginning). His father, Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr, surrendered Fort Donelson to Ulysses Grant in 1862. If the math is a little confusing, SBB Jr. was born when his father was 63 years old.
I suppose many Americans will want him dug up from Arlington.....Stonewall Jackson's great grandson was also killed in action in WWII. Luckily, he was buried in Texas, so he will likely rest in peace.
My maternal grandfather was to fly with Maj. Gen. Frank Mahin, on that fatal day. But was late and missed the flight. I remember he said he hated flying in plane which crashed, as it was so small.
Shouldn't matter. Admiral Kidd was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, before Roosevelt declared the U.S. was now in the war, and he's on the list.
And I believe it was planned and carried out by the US government. Because he kept saying we need to take on the Russians, sooner or later and since we had the men and material there. Same reason they kicked McArthur in Korea. China invaded the peninsula and he stated the same, we have war with them so needs to be now. You can see the mess the world is in now because politicians were allowed to make the rules. And we all know about the "Rules of Engagement"
Buckner Jr was the highest ranking officer to be killed in combat in WWII. He was the son of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general and later governor of KY. Buckner was friends with Grant, who nevertheless replied to his request for terms at Fort Donelson: “No terms. Only unconditional surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.” Grant still owed Buckner five dollars that Buckner lent him in NY years earlier when Grant was broke. Anyway, with that reply from Grant a legend was born.
Actually, I believe McNair was senior to Buckner. McNair was the commander of Army Ground Forces. Both were 3-star Lieutenant Generals; however, believe McNair's lineal number was lower than Buckner's.
@@patrickmccrann991 You could be correct. I was just repeating something I read somewhere - maybe Wikipedia. I’ll look into this before repeating it again. Thanks.
@CAROLUSPRIMA Been studying World War II for more than 50 years. Everything I have ever read states McNair was the most senior officer killed during the war.
Without googling, I'm guessing some of the military bases are named after these flag officers: Army Air Corps (AFB): Andrews, George, Tinker, Andersen, Castle; Navy (NAS): Cecil.
Well, yeah, he is. A General-level officer has decades of experience and learning a common soldier (by which I assume you meant a enlisted or noncom soldier) does not. He may be bad or he may be good, but the acquired skills don't grow on trees (or can be conscripted and thrown through a couple of months of basic training)
Maybe it was because he died of a heart attack, but you omitted Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr, the highest ranking officer on Utah Beach on D-Day. Despite both arthritis and heart disease, he requested a field command for Operation Overlord, and landed with the first wave of soldiers on June 6, 1944. He died five weeks later on July 12 and was buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy.
You indicate, Mr HC, that the last four single stars were 'executed by Japanese forces.' It's been more than 50 years since I was US Army infantry officer, but if I remember correctly that's a war crime, is it not? Do we know if the Japanese officers who authorized these executions received the appropriate post-war legal procedures -- resulting in death by hanging?
You were probably an infantry officer in Vietnam. Did the math. As far as the Japanese officers probably no documentation survived. Ameture military historian. 76 y.o.
@@balanb312 Congratulations -- your math is correct. 1968-69 in the 199th Lt Inf Brigade. 2 years older than you. Thank you for your amplification/clarification! Stay well.
@@muffs55mercury61 Thank you, Mr muffs! My knowledge of military history (from over 50 years ago) -- like that of most US Army junior officers -- was focused mostly on the tactical & operational aspects of wars & battles rather than on the actions before & after wars & military actions.
Not as well known as the Nuremburg trials, but their was a military tribunal held in Tokyo after the war for high ranking military officers & politicians. There were also numerous lower level tribunals held across the Pacific for lower ranking japanese officers for prisoner abuse,, torture, etc. A number of them were executed either by us or other allied nations.
@@bretthess6376 I love you conspiracy nuts. People die every day in car accidents, and the government relieved any number of general officers (INCLUDING Patton!) during the war for screwing up or shooting their mouth off the wrong way, but they just had to assassinate a man at the end of his career. They wouldn't just forcibly retire him like MacArthur, no, it had to be some deep dark mystery for which there is no actual proof. Makes perfect sense, really. (eye roll)
Before another "Where is Ted Roovesevelt" is asked again, this list does not seem to include those command-level officers that died of natural causes. Also on that not-include list would be General Robert Olds, Army Air Corps, who died of health issues stateside in 1943. He was also was the father of Colonel Robert "Robin" Olds of Vietnam fighter fame.
@@edwardrhoades6957OK, my bad. I saw stonewall Jackson, with no pic, and an axe. Which I assume was the unit patch? I thought it was a joke. But on another note, I just watched the rest and saw that Nathan Bedford Forrest III was also killed. Didn't know that at all.
@@davidbreheny5524 actually I think he was shot by a confederate sentry. Obviously by accident, and died something like 12 days later after his arm was amputated.
General Rose’s death is an interesting one. He was basically ambushed by German tanks belonging to the SS. A tank commander popped open his hatch and shot him 14 times with a sub machine gun. It happened barely a month before the Germans surrendered.
Admiral Theodore Chandler was fatally burned during a kamikaze attack but tried to fight the ensuing fires and then insisted on waiting in line with ordinary sailors for first aid. He died on the following day.
A number of British Generals died in single engine aircraft crashes too, the nature of their role required they travel and those things are death traps.
"General Sir. Your plane is warmed up on the tarmac. The pilot said he is ready to go, sir." "Soldier, did you just say plane, as in...airplane?? "Yes sir." "Sorry soldier, I'll walk" General survives war. Dies in boating accident. Killed by crashing military transport aircraft.
I was struck by how many were killed by small arms or arty. The crashes, shoot-downs, and accidents I expected, but I didn't know so many were killed in direct combat. It isn't Civil War level but it is striking.
@@MM22966 Was thinking more of the ones that was killed by anti aircraft fire which one would think they were air corp ,there sure was lot that died from acidents also in both sevices
@@tmartin34wrong job then. Couldn't they have asked to be fired!? Quit? Anyway, I feel what you mean but in that situation it doesn't seem to be hard to put on your mind that it wasn't your fault, they studied too much war they should know this. Easier talk than to live of course.. anyway, it's indeed very strange those suicides, anyone knows that wars kill people independently of anyone's decisions, and everybody makes mistakes, the battlefield situation is almost never clear, thats why I said those intelligent guys should know that. And they had family, money etc.. other ppl dont have that much. Im not judging, its just a cheap analisis. May they RIP.
Admiral Issac Kidd was Killed Aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. General Rose ,a Jew, was assassinated Nazi Werewolf commandos sent to carry this specific mission.
Wrong. MG Rose was KIA at Paderborn. A German tank commander shot him with his machine pistol from the hatch of his tank while Rose and his group were dismounted after their vehicles were cut off by the panzers.
He was a US national serving in the US forces. "On July 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued presidential order (6 Fed. Reg. 3825) calling into service of the United States of America all the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines..."
I visited the site where he was killed on the island of Okinawa. A Japanese artillery round struck nearby him, and the explosion threw a chunk of rock which struck him in the head. I have never heard that he was fragged before. He was well liked.
Holy shit this is horrible. Not only is the poster so lazy to not put anything into context ,such as chronology, theater of action, etc., didn't even bother to proof read and notice that THREE QUARTERS OF THIS VIDEO IS OUT OF FOCUS OR PURPOSELY OBSCURED. Crap.
Yeesh. Oklahoma just can't win. Our two biggest airports are named after two guys who died in the same plane crash and our Air Force base is named after a general that got shot out of the sky.
Gereral Buckner was very racist. He was in command of the construction of the ALCAN highway to Alaska and he wouldn’t let black people use much of the construction equipment because he felt they weren’t smart enough.
They should a list on British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Soviets. Sneak peek, many of the Japanese were self-inflicted, and the Soviets, many who were too good were killed by Stalin.
In Cold War West Berlin, the British and French named their major installations after victorious generals of the world wars: Montgomery and Foch, respectively. A majority of American installations were named for U.S. Army generals who had died in World War II prior to victory: McNair Barracks, Andrews Barracks, Rose Range, and [Theodore] Roosevelt[, Jr.] Barracks (died of a heart attack). Not criticizing, just a different approach. It sent a different message. Two exceptions: Parks Range was named for the first U.S. commandant in Berlin who passed away in 1959; and Turner Barracks named for a Korean War tanker and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient. Turner Barracks was the home of the Berlin Brigade's very large tank company.
It looks like, that the maintenance crew was the biggest threat for US generals.
Or the pilot
Or the flag officers putting undue pressures on the pilots to get them to their destinations.
Dodgy pilots
Remember, this was when aids to navigation was in its infancy (little more than primitive RDF beacon homing, and LORAN at the very end of the war) and flying was still pretty much by the seat of the pants. Brass had to get to primitive airfields in all kinds of weather, with pilots who may not have even flown to the place beforehand.
look up the number of aircraft and aircrew killed in non-combat conditions in the war and you'll see nearly 40% ... a bit higher than the average for US forces..around 36% killed in non-combat conditions.
That said it is still the pilot flying the aircraft.....It doesn't crash by itself without the "aid' of a human.
I had no idea so many General officers died in the war.
well the military had over 16 million personnel during the war and lots of those general officer positions where actually temporary ranks to manage the large numbers of personnel.
Don't pay attention to this. They have a confederate civil war general in here
@@AnthonyBerardis-r1p actually that was his grandson
There was that old general who started his Career in the civil and made to command during either the Great War or WW2
@@AnthonyBerardis-r1p ... and I guess it's not worth mentioning his name? Like we'll just take your word for it? Like that's enough information to satisfy a normal person's curiosity> IOW, "WHAT????" sheesh... all you coy, "I know something and I'm not gonna tell!" children.
Many airplane crashes😳
Billy Mitchell's ?
That's how we lost Glen Miller
People today don't really understand just how common airplane crashes were up until about the 1960's.
Lokks like we lost more brass from plane crashes than actual combat.
More pilots were killed in training and accidents than in combat.
Many likely as a result of flag officers putting undue pressure, both spoken and unspoken, on the pilots to get them to their destinations.
Brigadier General Allan C McBride died of starvation in a POW camp, Formosa. the Japanese were beyond brutal. Very hard to forgive, even all these years later.
The Japanese fought a terribly brutal war from the 30's in China right through to Hiroshima. They have never atoned or attempted to make any semblance of an apology to all the poeples of all the countries they brutalized. Probably the closest would be to the women of the Philipines who were treated so terrible during the Japanese occupation of the islands. My Dad was in the South Pacific during WW2 and never forgave them. He suffered from PTSD until the day he died.
@@B25gunship my stepdad was with MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific Theatre. He spoke rarely about his war years, and always choked back tears when he did. Like your dad, he suffered from PTSD but managed to have a wonderful long life with loving sons, grandchildren, and stepchildren.
My uncle saw number of planes crash on takeoff in ww2. Always commented on the lack of adequate maintenance that contributed to the crashes
Maintenance was difficult at the front lines. Definitely an added risk. Mostly engine failure or miss fire on take off...with full fuel and possible bomb load.
@@AmericasChoice Not just inadequate maintenance, but also an incentive to "push as many planes into the air every day"; if it had wings, running engines and passed the preflight, it was pushed into the air; US counted on sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy
@@rayzimmerman2242 That is basically what I said. And that whole "numbers" thing is BS. US aircraft were very good, and just as good as anything the UK or Germany produced.
"All items in the Army are expendable, including Generals."
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Is that a real quote ?
This was a real one
“He was the best clerk I ever had”
@@g.t.richardson6311 I don't know, but one is tempted to add: "Especially Generals"
@@g.t.richardson6311 General MacArthur
Plane crashes are rougher on generals than on rock stars. I remember reading about the admiral lost at sea. A man was seen overboard so all hands had to muster and be accounted for. Repeated musters found nobody missing. When they tried to report this to the admiral he could not be found.
General Pratt was killed in a glider crash on D-Day. For "Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg changed his name and created the fiction that the crash was because the general had put armor plating in his glider, which threw off its landing characteristics.
I think that was in the John Wayne make of D Day "The Longest Day"
No the pilots of the glider explain that the general had extra armor added without letting them know ( in the movie Saving Private Ryan) and it made the glider impossible to control. The general in the movie was crushed by his Jeep when they crashed and when the group looking for private Ryan came on the crash site they called it ( the situation) “ fubar”.
Lots of glider related casualties on D-Day. Spielberg didn't have to make anything up. Seems like he was just trying to throw in some message about how stupid top brass are when the premise of the movie was already that their mission was some stupid mission dreamed up by command. Spielberg can make big blockbusters but he's never been good at subtlety.
Did I miss the demise of Pres. Teddy Roosevelt son, France ' July 44 ? Narragansett Bay
Ted Roosevelt Junior died of a heart attack, not hostile fire.
You didn't miss him - he wasn't on this list for some strange reason. Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt died from a heart attack on July 12, 1945 - just a lit longer than a month after he was the first U.S. General Officer to land in Normandy (Utah beach). He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on June 6th, 1944. He was promoted to Commander, 90th Infantry Division the morning of his death. George Patton once said of him: "He was one of the bravest men I ever knew".
@@antonbruce1241 Natural causes were not included.
Yes he died of a heart attack on the battlefield.
I was looking for his name, too. There is TH-cam footage of his funeral procession.
Seems like airplanes were a very unsafe place for highly ranked US officers in WWII.
Orlando Darby was a Colonel when he was killed in April 1945. His promotion to General was after he died. He commanded the 1st Ranger Division known as Darby' s Rangers
Lesley McNair was one of my uncles. I use to here stories about him growing up in the 60s and 70s from the family
He was killed during Operation Cobra, massive medium and high level bombing of German lines to facilitate a post D-Day break out in the Bocage region. Mission creap back cause tons of bombs to fall on our own lines. I am sure you know about this, but I just wanted to flesh out what happened. It seriously affected US forces morale for many weeks...
I was stationed in West Berlin in the 70s-80s at McNair Barracks. Named for him?
@@garymathena2125 Probably.
Not-so-fun fact: His body was only identified by the lieutenant general's stars on what remained of his shirt. There were so many men from the 30th whose remains were never identified due to errors in communication.
@@AfrikaKorp42 It was a catastrophic event...
Lincoln said, "I can make more generals, but horses cost..."
Unfortunate but by comparison over a thousand German generals were killed in WWII.
Who cares about Krauts?
@@alecfoster4413
You’re an embarrassment to humanity.
They were Soldiers carrying out their duties just like every other soldier. They just happened to be on the losing side.
@@bretthess6376 Perhaps omitting the SS-troops!
@@alecfoster4413 Don't you even want to know what country killed the most German generals? Man you're boring.
Now do a list of every colonel or general officer relieved during WWII
No 13 hour videos
@@g.t.richardson6311 What's a 13th hour video?
@@danielburgess7785 if you made a video of every col or general relieved during ww2 it would be 13 hours long
Since this video included navel flag officers, include rear admirals and captains if you going include colonels
Get it
It didn’t say “13th hour”
It said 13 hour
Wasn't Theodore Roosevelt, Jr (1887-1944) a brigadier or Lt general? He died of a heart attack on the battlefield.
True, but the title says 'killed'... I guess the number of generals and admirals that died from heart attacks or illnesses on the battlefield (and POW camps) would more than double the size of this list.
@@isidroramos1073 Yes highly likely. Diseases are seldom mentioned.
If that was the number of generals that died in plane accidents the number of pilots and service men must have been huge.
The number of training and war time accidents is monumental. Flying at the edge of the envelope will do that..
when we first started bombing Europe is was almost suicide so they decided if you completed 25 missions you got to rotate home, it was a very big deal when the first crew survived 25 missions
Wow, Nathan Bedford Forrest III, who knew?
You missed Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (second general at the beginning). His father, Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr, surrendered Fort Donelson to Ulysses Grant in 1862. If the math is a little confusing, SBB Jr. was born when his father was 63 years old.
I suppose many Americans will want him dug up from Arlington.....Stonewall Jackson's great grandson was also killed in action in WWII. Luckily, he was buried in Texas, so he will likely rest in peace.
@@commonleadership48 No real Americans would want that.
@@romanfields7900you're overestimating the intelligence of the average American. It's getting pretty bad here unfortunately.
Well he did specify REAL Americans, the soyboys, liberals,cheap labor aliens and poor me former farm equipment don’t fall under that description.
My maternal grandfather was to fly with Maj. Gen. Frank Mahin, on that fatal day. But was late and missed the flight. I remember he said he hated flying in plane which crashed, as it was so small.
That must be kinda a feeling, surviving this by having missed the flight.
My father flew out of Norman Okl Naval Air Station and survived anti sub duty in the Atlantic …25,000 US flyers died in training in WW@
Seeing how many died an accidents, mostly aircraft crashes, makes you realize how dangerous just training for war was in this era.
Apparently if your high rank don't travel by plane in WW2.
Patton ? But that was just after the war, in Europe
Yep Dec 21, 1945. Some still believe it was an assassination by the Russians.
@@muffs55mercury61 Or an inside job from forces who rejected his position ON the Russians. IMO Sec.of Treasury Morgenthau ordered the assassination.
Shouldn't matter. Admiral Kidd was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, before Roosevelt declared the U.S. was now in the war, and he's on the list.
And I believe it was planned and carried out by the US government. Because he kept saying we need to take on the Russians, sooner or later and since we had the men and material there.
Same reason they kicked McArthur in Korea. China invaded the peninsula and he stated the same, we have war with them so needs to be now.
You can see the mess the world is in now because politicians were allowed to make the rules. And we all know about the "Rules of Engagement"
Forgot Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Still good and informative video.
Where is Theodore Roosevelt III ? I didn't see him in the video.
Died of a heart attack, not killed. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. not III.
as a general killed in 1943 in Germany? what was there a general in a bombing/escort mission?
Didn't you miss one Theodore Roosevelt Jr?
Buckner Jr was the highest ranking officer to be killed in combat in WWII.
He was the son of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general and later governor of KY.
Buckner was friends with Grant, who nevertheless replied to his request for terms at Fort Donelson: “No terms. Only unconditional surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.”
Grant still owed Buckner five dollars that Buckner lent him in NY years earlier when Grant was broke.
Anyway, with that reply from Grant a legend was born.
Actually, I believe McNair was senior to Buckner. McNair was the commander of Army Ground Forces. Both were 3-star Lieutenant Generals; however, believe McNair's lineal number was lower than Buckner's.
@@patrickmccrann991 You could be correct. I was just repeating something I read somewhere - maybe Wikipedia. I’ll look into this before repeating it again.
Thanks.
@CAROLUSPRIMA Been studying World War II for more than 50 years. Everything I have ever read states McNair was the most senior officer killed during the war.
The list had four lt,Generals no idea who was senior doesn't manner anyway as they gave their lives for their country
Buckner was very racist. Look how he treated the Black soldiers building the ALCAN highway compared to his treatment of white soldiers.
There are admirals here as well as general's. Your title should have read Flag Officers killed in WW2.
Picking at nits. Very few civilians would understand what a flag officer is. The title is fine.
@@commonleadership48 You are correct in that matter. Civilians don't know jack about military affairs.
@@commonleadership48 many know
I was surprised when Scott, Kidd scrolled across since it said generals
It said “general officers” which includes flag rank.
Without googling, I'm guessing some of the military bases are named after these flag officers: Army Air Corps (AFB): Andrews, George, Tinker, Andersen, Castle; Navy (NAS): Cecil.
And ships.
Tinker AFB in Oklahoma ,Think Andrews AFB in Maryland is named after one also
There were Kings who went to battle who led from the front. A general isn’t more important than the common soldier on the battlefield.
Well, yeah, he is. A General-level officer has decades of experience and learning a common soldier (by which I assume you meant a enlisted or noncom soldier) does not. He may be bad or he may be good, but the acquired skills don't grow on trees (or can be conscripted and thrown through a couple of months of basic training)
Maybe it was because he died of a heart attack, but you omitted Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr, the highest ranking officer on Utah Beach on D-Day. Despite both arthritis and heart disease, he requested a field command for Operation Overlord, and landed with the first wave of soldiers on June 6, 1944. He died five weeks later on July 12 and was buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy.
Ok are these aircraft accidents “accidents” or actual accidents.
The lesson is, General officers and air travel don't mix
Brigadier generals were like the red shirts of Star Trek.
You indicate, Mr HC, that the last four single stars were 'executed by Japanese forces.'
It's been more than 50 years since I was US Army infantry officer, but if I remember correctly that's a war crime, is it not? Do we know if the Japanese officers who authorized these executions received the appropriate post-war legal procedures -- resulting in death by hanging?
You were probably an infantry officer in Vietnam. Did the math. As far as the Japanese officers probably no documentation survived. Ameture military historian. 76 y.o.
@@balanb312 Congratulations -- your math is correct. 1968-69 in the 199th Lt Inf Brigade. 2 years older than you. Thank you for your amplification/clarification! Stay well.
A number of them were executed after the war.
@@muffs55mercury61 Thank you, Mr muffs! My knowledge of military history (from over 50 years ago) -- like that of most US Army junior officers -- was focused mostly on the tactical & operational aspects of wars & battles rather than on the actions before & after wars & military actions.
Not as well known as the Nuremburg trials, but their was a military tribunal held in Tokyo after the war for high ranking military officers & politicians. There were also numerous lower level tribunals held across the Pacific for lower ranking japanese officers for prisoner abuse,, torture, etc. A number of them were executed either by us or other allied nations.
Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. dies of a heart attack in France on July 12, 1944.
Holy shit. Why is everyone talking about Patton? Read a book.
What's with the suicides?
defeat in battle. not uncommon for the age
Looks we were cleaning a lot of brass during the war. "or Accident" shows up a lot. Hmmm?
It does make you wonder. After all, THEY whacked Patton. So who knows?
@@bretthess6376 I love you conspiracy nuts. People die every day in car accidents, and the government relieved any number of general officers (INCLUDING Patton!) during the war for screwing up or shooting their mouth off the wrong way, but they just had to assassinate a man at the end of his career. They wouldn't just forcibly retire him like MacArthur, no, it had to be some deep dark mystery for which there is no actual proof. Makes perfect sense, really. (eye roll)
Before another "Where is Ted Roovesevelt" is asked again, this list does not seem to include those command-level officers that died of natural causes.
Also on that not-include list would be General Robert Olds, Army Air Corps, who died of health issues stateside in 1943. He was also was the father of Colonel Robert "Robin" Olds of Vietnam fighter fame.
Air travel has certainly become a bit safer over the past eighty years.
One has to wonder what was the common connection amongst the aircraft crashes.........
1940's aircraft.
Weather. And young pilots flying beyond their skill level. Still happens.
No wonder being promoted in wartime to flag rank scared so many Colonels and Captains, then the enemy.
Unless there was another Stonewall Jackson, he was a Confederate general that died in 1863 after being shot by his own men on accident.
Stonewall Jackson, in a air crash???? I died 10.mai 1863in Guinea , Virgina Usa
What I have learn here is if you get a star on your shoulder, don't fly.
When the hell was stonewall Jackson in ww2???? Come on
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_(20th_century_general) His full legal name was actually Stonewall Jackson.
@@edwardrhoades6957OK, my bad. I saw stonewall Jackson, with no pic, and an axe. Which I assume was the unit patch? I thought it was a joke. But on another note, I just watched the rest and saw that Nathan Bedford Forrest III was also killed. Didn't know that at all.
@@AnthonyBerardis-r1pGeneral Stone Wall Jackson, DIED from his own ARTILLERY. One of the first cases of friendly fire
@@davidbreheny5524 actually I think he was shot by a confederate sentry. Obviously by accident, and died something like 12 days later after his arm was amputated.
@@davidbreheny5524 OH my bad, are we talking the ww2 one? Or the original stonewall Jackson. Lol
I thought those boys knew how to fly..... sounds like flying was a death sentence for Generals.
Don't let a General fly an airplane.
No patton??
After the war was over.
Video should be called US military star ranking officers who got killed in WWII, since you put in admirals in there too.
General Rose’s death is an interesting one. He was basically ambushed by German tanks belonging to the SS. A tank commander popped open his hatch and shot him 14 times with a sub machine gun. It happened barely a month before the Germans surrendered.
Pretty ironic to be the commander of a tank division and die to a tank without any of your own around to help.
As I recall, there was some question because Rose was Jewish.
Realistically, it is unlikely the shooter knew that. Saw two stars and fired away.
What about the assassination of George Patton?
Thats just a theory and second of all.. He didnt die during ww2.
Admiral Theodore Chandler was fatally burned during a kamikaze attack but tried to fight the ensuing fires and then insisted on waiting in line with ordinary sailors for first aid. He died on the following day.
A number of British Generals died in single engine aircraft crashes too, the nature of their role required they travel and those things are death traps.
Never never every get on a plane.
why I hated helicopters
Not if a general or a rock and roll group is flying that day.
patton?
He didnt die during ww2.
No Brigadier General Theadore Roosevelt ?
"General Sir. Your plane is warmed up on the tarmac. The pilot said he is ready to go, sir."
"Soldier, did you just say plane, as in...airplane??
"Yes sir."
"Sorry soldier, I'll walk"
General survives war. Dies in boating accident. Killed by crashing military transport aircraft.
I was struck by how many were killed by small arms or arty. The crashes, shoot-downs, and accidents I expected, but I didn't know so many were killed in direct combat. It isn't Civil War level but it is striking.
Im assuming that the ones killed by anti aircraft fire were army air corp
@@mikeyj9607 Most. Can just be generals/admirals moving by plane, too.
@@MM22966 Was thinking more of the ones that was killed by anti aircraft fire which one would think they were air corp ,there sure was lot that died from acidents also in both sevices
Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt died of a heart attack. Not killed.
Wasn't KILLED. Died of a Heart Attack like admiral Willis A Lee.
G_d bless Maurice Rose.
We're all those airplanes BOEINGS???
Why so many suicides ? 😳😳😳
Imagine being stressed all day and thinking about how many soldiers fell just because of your command, it didn’t help your psychology at all
@@tmartin34wrong job then. Couldn't they have asked to be fired!? Quit?
Anyway, I feel what you mean but in that situation it doesn't seem to be hard to put on your mind that it wasn't your fault, they studied too much war they should know this.
Easier talk than to live of course.. anyway, it's indeed very strange those suicides, anyone knows that wars kill people independently of anyone's decisions, and everybody makes mistakes, the battlefield situation is almost never clear, thats why I said those intelligent guys should know that. And they had family, money etc.. other ppl dont have that much.
Im not judging, its just a cheap analisis. May they RIP.
The shame of defeat in battle, not uncommon for the area.
Now we know where those Air Force and Army bases got their names...
Either they had some very bad pilots or very bad airplanes.
Where is Adm Ching Lee?
Admiral Issac Kidd was Killed Aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941. General Rose ,a Jew, was assassinated Nazi Werewolf commandos sent to carry this specific mission.
Wrong. MG Rose was KIA at Paderborn. A German tank commander shot him with his machine pistol from the hatch of his tank while Rose and his group were dismounted after their vehicles were cut off by the panzers.
Idiot
Rose was killed in close combat
Excellent book
Pattons 2 favorite generals rose and terrible terry allen
@@johnnyallen843Thanks, didn't know this .
Rose was the commander of the 3rd Armored Division. He is considered by some to have been the best US divisional commander of the war.
The last one, Fidel Segundo, wasn't American
He was a US national serving in the US forces.
"On July 26, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued presidential order (6 Fed. Reg. 3825) calling into service of the United States of America all the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines..."
Is there any truth to the rumour that LG Buckner Jr was actually "fragged" by his own men?
No. He had been warned not to go to that position for observation.
Unlikely, but...
I visited the site where he was killed on the island of Okinawa. A Japanese artillery round struck nearby him, and the explosion threw a chunk of rock which struck him in the head. I have never heard that he was fragged before. He was well liked.
As you have officers of the land, sea, and air, the proper term would be US Flag Officers.
No Patton??? Left off undoubtedly the biggest name of the war!!
He didnt die during the war.. Wake up lol
Army Air Corps elisted ground crewmen sending generals out to die.
I wonder of brigadier general, Nathan Bedford Forrest 3th has any relations to confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest ?
He was his grandson.
Wonder if the plane crashes were Boeing
Holy shit this is horrible. Not only is the poster so lazy to not put anything into context ,such as chronology, theater of action, etc., didn't even bother to proof read and notice that THREE QUARTERS OF THIS VIDEO IS OUT OF FOCUS OR PURPOSELY OBSCURED.
Crap.
These generals and admirals need to stay out of airplanes
Teodoro Rooswelt jr France 1944
Back when Generals lead from the front,by example.
Airplane crashes
Had to be axis spies in the ground crews!
Why on Earth would they call a General with the last name Jackson
Stonewall?.
Makes no sense 😁
Nathan bedfor Forrest iiii
How TF could you MISS Patton??? He died on active duty in Germany, even though the war was won, but it ain't over til it' over.
You may find this hard to believe, but his right hand .45 caliber 1873 Colt Sheriffs' Model P(eacemaker) has TWO notches.
If that's the case what about Washington? Jessuz some people just need to be fastidious!
He died in a vehicle accident 6 months after the war in Europe ended. Look at the title.
@@Sleer49 As is well known, after hostilities had ended on 12/21/45.
Actually died of pneumonia two weeks after his car accident.
Yeesh. Oklahoma just can't win. Our two biggest airports are named after two guys who died in the same plane crash and our Air Force base is named after a general that got shot out of the sky.
Forgot Roosevelt from D-Day. God Bless America
Natural causes, so not included.
Gereral Buckner was very racist. He was in command of the construction of the ALCAN highway to Alaska and he wouldn’t let black people use much of the construction equipment because he felt they weren’t smart enough.
You left out Gen Simon B. Buckner
He's literally the 2nd on the list.
@@SamBrickell oops most of missed it I'll look again
They should a list on British, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Soviets. Sneak peek, many of the Japanese were self-inflicted, and the Soviets, many who were too good were killed by Stalin.
In Cold War West Berlin, the British and French named their major installations after victorious generals of the world wars: Montgomery and Foch, respectively. A majority of American installations were named for U.S. Army generals who had died in World War II prior to victory: McNair Barracks, Andrews Barracks, Rose Range, and [Theodore] Roosevelt[, Jr.] Barracks (died of a heart attack). Not criticizing, just a different approach. It sent a different message. Two exceptions: Parks Range was named for the first U.S. commandant in Berlin who passed away in 1959; and Turner Barracks named for a Korean War tanker and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient. Turner Barracks was the home of the Berlin Brigade's very large tank company.
What is it with Americans and aeroplanes lol? You go together like oil and water.
So sad a waste of good men
... Gremlins.
I do not see General George Patton or Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt
Patton died after hostilities had ceased. But under very suspicious circumstances, as you probably know.
Teddy Jr. died of a heart attack, not in combat.
@@AmericasChoice car/jeep/cattle cart accident is not suspicious, AND he caught pneumonia in the hospital some weeks afterward.
@@divingfe LOL. You are a dolt.
Patton was after the war.
But TR III should have been on the list.
Heart attack not killed
The only ones that count are the deaths that occurred while under fire, either friendly or hostile.
Looks like accidents were included a number died in crashes in the states
No. Death is death. You are getting more info than you need.
Some of these parents loved the Confederacy
They were direct decedents.
@@josephburke7224 I noticed that.
Nathan Bedford Forrest- his grand dad founded the KKK.
1:05 Buckner's father was a CSA General. My ancestors were rebels as well. In Stonewall Jackson' division.
So?
Where is General George S. Patton? What I dislike is your picking and choosing.
Died from injuries from a car accident 6 months after the war in Europe ended. NOT IN COMBAT!
Or we had some bad pilots