What's your favorite General Officer nickname?

[Wharfmaster]

General Israel "Old Put" Putnam. Rogers' Rangers and Bunker Hill.

 

 

 

 

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[Bugme]

Civil War namesake, WWII 84th Infantry Division Major General Stonewall Jackson. With a namesake like that he didn't need a nickname.

[patches]

Lieutenant General Theodor A. Korshak The Tamer of the Tiger Tank

 

 

General Iron Guts Kelly

 

On 4/26/2013 at 4:29 PM, Jack's Son said:

 

General Hamilton "Mississippi Mud" Steele. (Harry Morgan)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7PzZJXbi8

 

 

 

 

[BEAST]

(Then) Brigadier General Waldo (Weird Waldo) D. Freeman, community commander of Schweinfurt, West Germany as nicknamed by our Battalion XO.

[M60 Driver]

Maj. General Smedley Butler, AKA "Old Gimlet Eye" if only because he is an often forgotten national hero not only for his exemplary military service but also for his role in exposing "the business plot".

 

 

 

[patches]

Raymond Tubby Barton.

 

Barton of course was the commander of the 4th Infantry Division 3 July 1942 to 26 December 1944. I think he got the nickname Tubby when he was a The Point.

[collectsmedals]

Mark Wayne Clark, his nickname at West Point was "Contraband". My father served under him in North Africa.

[collectsmedals]

On 4/25/2013 at 5:04 PM, ScottG said:

What, no "Dugout Doug"

My 9th grade history teacher who has served as a Captain in the artillery called him Dugout Doug, but I doubt anyone called him that to his face.

[collectsmedals]

On 4/25/2013 at 5:04 PM, ScottG said:

Oops, posted twice.

One of my favorites was General Anthony "Mad Anthony" Wayne

[Salvage Sailor]

Major General Paul "Pistol Paul" Woolever Newgarden (1892 - 1944), George Patton's marksmanship contemporary, USMA (lower) classmate, and armored protege.  Plucked from the 2nd Armored "Hell on Wheels" division to be first commander of the 10th "Tiger" armored division.  Died in the line of duty in plane crash, 1944.

 

USMF Topic  WWII 10th Armored "Armored Tiger" Patch

 

As a cadet, he was thoroughly liked and respected. With a sunny disposition, strong in support of his beliefs, loyal to his friends, always courteous and tactful, energetic in class and in sports, he early on showed the basic essential elements for the high degree of leadership which marked him for early selection to command. Some cadet classmates thought that he was by nature a reformer with the idea of continually improving that well established place of learning. The Howitzer of 1913 suggests that he may have missed one or two points of alleged depravity in the system, but that in general he did his honest best to make two blades of grass grow where a path ran before. All through his four years as a cadet he worked industriously in the gym and in every class of athletics that the Academy allowed. He made several squads, baseball, broadsword, indoor meet, hockey, and the Cullum squad, and took an intense interest in marksmanship. These interests were later to pay dividends when he gained important command. While he acquired a number of nicknames, the one that stuck longest was "Pistol Paul". It is significant that this name so early indicated a talent which he later developed to become a Distinguished Pistol Shot and a member of the Infantry Pistol Team in 1923 which won a national championship from the Marines..... (I have photos of Maj. Newgarden and his shooting team in my HD photo archive).

 

.....While at the Infantry School in 1921-1922 he still continued his interest and training in marksmanship. While he did not make the National Rifle Team, he did become a part of that immediate training organization and had his turn at Camp Perry. However, in 1923 he made the Infantry Pistol Team. He served in 1924 with the 27th Infantry Regiment in Hawaii as a Major, and completed this tour in the Islands with a year as Inspector of the Hawaiian Division (alongside of George Patton, then Assistant Chief of Staff, G‑1‑2‑3, Hawaiian Division and Hawaiian Dept., April, 1925, to April, 1928).

 

 

 

[patches]

Nobody Wants To See A Picture Of Me.............I'M MAD!

[patches]

Sandy 

 

That's General Alexander Patch. No idea where he got nickname, maybe like Tubby, got at West Point.

 

 

[I Hate Moths]

Leander L Doan

"Chubby"

 

[patches]

Admiral Harold Betty Stark, got his nickname Betty at Annapolis, Stark of course being Chief of Naval Operations August 1, 1939–March 26, 1942, in the movie TORA TORA TORA the actor playing him, he's in Civilian cloths, one member, a Navyman I forget who, pointed out that that was 100% accurate as CNOs were in Mufti when they held this position rather than in Uniform

[patches]

Bulldog Walker

[patches]

Omar The Tent Maker,

Think it was I recall reading years and years ago that it was Patton who called Bradley this, presumably because of his Arab first name  .

[doyler]

On 1/13/2022 at 10:12 PM, patches said:

Nobody Wants To See A Picture Of Me.............I'M MAD!

 

Ol' Puss and Boots

 

[patches]

Shrimp Milburn, like the others perhaps he got the moniker at The Point

 

Frank W. Milburn in WWII XXI Corps.

 

 

[patches]

One for the South

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler

[patches]

And one for the North

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker

[patches]

Major General Nathanael Greene " The Fighting Quaker" Greene was a Quaker from Rhode Island.

[dskjl]

O.P. Smith "the professor"

 

[Com-Z]

 

On 2/28/2022 at 11:25 PM, patches said:

Sandy 

 

That's General Alexander Patch. No idea where he got nickname, maybe like Tubby, got at West Point.

 

 

Sandy Patch - Sandy is a very common nickname for Alexander.
 

Alexander "Sandy" Ninninger was a 2nd lieutenant out of West Point in 1941.  He served in the Philippines, and was killed in action in the Battle of Bataan on 12 January 1942, barely a month into the war.  He was the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in WWII.  This salutation hangs outside Ninninger Hall, the Cadet Honor Code hearing room in the Old 1st Division Barracks, the only really old part of a barracks building still standing at USMA.  Notice his nickname at top.
"I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do."

[patches]

Benjamin Franklin Butler "The Beast" LOL

 

[patches]

Shorty

 

Major General Robert H. "Shorty" Soule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Soule