WW II historian Dr. Steven Taaffe to give lecture in Greenville Oct. 26
By Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum
Oct 25, 2023
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Greenville, Texas -- The Audie Murphy Chapter of the WW II History Roundtable will present a lecture by noted WW II historian Dr. Steven Taaffe at 7:00 p.m. on October 26, 2023 in the Grand Hall of the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum located in Greenville, Texas.  Address: 600 Interstate Highway I-30.  No admission charges.  Q&A to follow.

Charter Gold Sponsor for Dr. Taaffe’s lecture is the Department of History at TAMU-Commerce. 

Dr. Taaffe’s lecture is entitled “George Marshall’s Generals---Selecting the Men who Won WW 2”.  He will focus not only on the successful traits of such generals as MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton, but also those whose leadership in battle failed.

General George Catlett Marshall is arguably the most important United States General in the 20th Century and……he wasn’t even a West Point Graduate having graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901.

General Marshall served as the US. Army Chief of Staff from 1939 until 1945.  During that time final approval of all generals appointed to active-duty commands in both the European and Pacific theatres was his.   Marshall also won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the Marshall Plan to rescue a bankrupt Europe after WW II.

Dr. Taaffe is professor of American military history at Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas.  Among his many books are “MacArthur’s Jungle War”, “US Army Commanders of WW II”, and “Marine Corp Generals of WW II”.  His doctoral degree was awarded by Ohio University.