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Ridgway Leads a World War II and Korea Career’s Rising Climb
General Matthew Ridgway, a lifelong Army officer and West Point graduate, rose from World War I training duty to command the 82nd Airborne in Europe, then led the First Allied Airborne Army and later the Eighth Army in Korea, where he steadied a faltering front and vowed to stay.
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