Sunday, July 5, 2009

AS SEEN ON TV: WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

AS SEEN IN:
"A Bright Shining Lie"

AS PLAYED BY:
Kurtwood Smith

William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was an American General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968, with the Tet Offensive. He had adopted a strategy of attrition against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. He later served as U.S. Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972. In 1976, he published his memoirs, "A Soldier Reports".
[from Wikipedia]

BCnU!

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