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General Billy Mitchell, who helped lead the military’s development and use of airpower at the beginning of the 20th century. General Mitchell was a professional soldier who served as an infantryman in the Spanish-American War and went on to achieve greater fame as an outstanding U.S. combat air commander during World War I.
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Issued in 2001 as part of the Great American Illustrators pane, this drawing by James Montgomery Flagg comes from a World War II Marine Corps recruitment poster. Flagg’s iconic images, including the famous Uncle Sam “I Want You” magazine cover, have become important pieces of military Americana.
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Dedicated on May 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, just east of the Reflecting Pool. The memorial honors the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during the war, and the millions more who supported them on the home front.
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The U.S. Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force in 1947. The Air Force is an important part of the military’s tactical warfare, offering its support to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. This 32-cent stamp features a photograph of four U.S. Air Force Thunderbird jets flying in diamond formation. To this day, the Thunderbirds perform at air shows across America.
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Audie Leon Murphy was born on a sharecropper’s farm in northeast Texas on June 20, 1924. Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 and served in the 3rd Infantry Division. On January 26, 1945, Murphy saved his company by single-handedly stopping a German attack during the Reduction of the Colmar Pocket in Alsace-Lorraine. For his bravery, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for gallantry in action.
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Omar Nelson Bradley was born in Clark, Missouri, on February 12, 1893. Bradley graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1915. He was the first in his class to receive a general’s star in 1941. After serving stateside during World War II, Bradley, then a major general, was assigned to the European forces under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Alvin Cullum York was born on December 13, 1887, Pall Mall, Tennessee. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, York was drafted into the Army. York was awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted from corporal to sergeant for his single-handed capture of German soldiers and their battery of machine guns in the Argonne forest on October 8, 1918. Sergeant York, a movie based on York’s life, was released in 1941. Gary Cooper won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the famous doughboy.
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John Leonard Hines was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, on May 21, 1868. After the U.S. entered WWI, Hines was assigned to the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Hines commanded the 4th Division in September 1918 during the American operations at Saint Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne. During WWI, Hines experienced a meteoric rise in rank as he was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in May 1917, then to colonel, brigadier general, and, in August 1918, to major general.
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This stamp, issued in 1999 as part of the Celebrate the Century series, features a color photograph taken by Howard Breedlove in 1967. The photograph, which shows members of the First Cavalry Division leaping from a helicopter as part of a search-and-destroy mission, was later adapted for the Vietnam Veterans National Medal awarded by Congress.