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  Joseph Stilwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stilwell was born in Palatka, Florida in 1883, and graduated from West Point in 1904.
Stilwell's post in the China-Burma-India Theatre, while a geographical command on the same level as the commands of Eisenhower and MacArthur, was a more complicated one due to the lower priority of the Theater for supplies and personnel and the greater need to balance political and military activities.
Barbara Tuchman claims in her book Stilwell and the American Experience in China, that he was sacrificed as a political expedient due to his inability to get along with his allies in the theatre, a notable exception being British Field Marshal William Slim.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Stilwell   (1113 words)

  
 China tour and travel info - General Joseph Stilwell Museum
Stilwell wanted the modern weapons distributed evenly between the KMT and the Communists in the fight against the Japanese; Chiang believed that arming the Communists with American weaponry would compromise his control.
Stilwell was reassigned to command the Tenth Army during the final stages of the Battle of Okinawa, after the Tenth Army's commander was killed by enemy fire.
In 1946, Stilwell was the commanding officer of the U.S. Sixth Army and the commanding officer of the Western Defense Command.
www.laurustravel.com /stilwell.htm   (1154 words)

  
 Joseph Stilwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 – October 12, 1946) was a United States Army four-star general known for his service in China.
Stilwell wanted the modern weapons distributed evenly amongst the KMT and the Communists in the fight against the Japanese but Chiang believed that arming the Communists with American weaponry could compromise his control.
Stilwell, on the other hand, had hoped for a complete united front and for Chiang to put aside his fears.
www.springboro.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Joseph_Stilwell   (768 words)

  
 General Stilwell
As Stilwell had personally known this patriotic Manchu, his dialect and his distinct voice, he was amazed to hear it recount times the two men had shared long ago.Detailed recollections of military events that the two men had observed were recalled, and inquiries were made into the activities of family members known by both.
Stilwell was widely recognized in Carmel as an exceptionally bright woman who "telepathically" communicated with her beloved husband when he was away fighting Japanese fascism.
Stilwell also sensed visits from her invisible husband, setting a place for him at the table and confiding her inner most thoughts to him in very private moments.
www.carmellife.com /history/stilwell_story/Stilwell.html   (860 words)

  
 General Joe Stilwell
Joseph Warren Stilwell was born in Palatka, Florida on March 19, 1883 to Yonkers natives Benjamin and Mary Peene Stilwell.
Joseph Stilwell was one of the classic graduates and also one of nine who planned to attend college—he had chosen Yale.
Stilwell was to serve yet again in China, from 1932 to 1939, before rising to later greatness and fame (and 4–star General rank) as commander of all American forces in the China–Burma–India Theater of World War II.
www.yonkershistory.org /8_3_1.html   (1604 words)

  
 SEC Info - Stilwell Joseph, et al. - SC 13D/A - Community Bancshares Inc/DE - On 12/5/05
Stilwell's capacity as the managing and sole member of Stilwell Value LLC, which is the general partner of Stilwell Value Partners IV and Stilwell Associates.
On November 17, 2005, the Stilwell PBIP Group filed preliminary proxy materials with the SEC to solicit proxies from PBIP's shareholders to withhold their votes on the election of directors as a referendum that PBIP should appoint public shareholders with substantial share holdings to its board.
Joseph Stilwell, in their capacities, respectively, as a general partner and as a managing and sole member, as described in this Schedule 13D, are entitled to an allocation of a portion of profits.
www.secinfo.com /dR7Vq.z99.htm   (4339 words)

  
 HyperWar: Reader's Guide to the U.S. Army in World War II Series--The War Department
Stilwell was chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek, in Chiang's capacity of commander in chief of China considered as an Allied theater; he administered U.S. lend-lease aid to China; and he commanded the CBI Theater.
During this period the project that was most demanding on General Stilwell's attention finally got under way-the campaign in north Burma to gain control of Myitkyina, to clear the route for the Ledo Road and a pipeline to China, and, in cooperation with the British, to unhinge the Japanese defense of Burma.
Stilwell's proposal, supported by the President, was to put Stilwell in command of the threatened Chinese forces, including some Chinese Communist units that were fighting the Japanese.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-Guide/Guide-CBI.html   (1182 words)

  
 General Joseph Stilwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Stilwell, an American General, spent most of World War II as Chiang-Kai-Shek's Chief of Staff in China.
He was a man often at odds with Generals Wavell, Slim, and Wingate, men with whom he was to co-operate in Burma.
Although Chiang Kai-Shek had Stilwell dismissed, he recognized Stilwell's contribution to the Burma Road campaign by renaming part of the Burma Road the Stilwell Road.
www.expage.com /page/wwiigen74   (348 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / THE RETREAT FROM BURMA
Stilwell and the British commander in Burma, General Sir Harold Alexander, held a conference with General Tu and General Lo Cho-ying, the representative of the Chinese General Staff, twenty-five miles south of Mandalay, on the night of April 25.
Stilwell had intended to move his headquarters to Myitkyina in order to stay in contact with the Chinese as long as possible, but the fall of Lashio, opening the Japanese way to Myitkyina over the hills, made this impossible.
Stilwell had been warned that this route was little used and difficult, and he chose it for that reason to avoid the stream of refugees and the escaping Chinese.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1971/2/1971_2_38.shtml   (6379 words)

  
 Joseph Warren Stilwell Biography / Biography of Joseph Warren Stilwell Biography
Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946) was the Army officer in charge of U.S. affairs in China during World War II.
Joseph Stilwell was born on March 19, 1883, at Palatka, Fla. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1914.
In 1919 Stilwell was appointed to study Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley.
www.bookrags.com /biography-joseph-warren-stilwell   (431 words)

  
 Joseph Stilwell
Joseph Stilwell, the son of a businessman, was born in Florida on 19th March 1883.
Stilwell had three tours of duty in China (1920-23, 1926-29 and 1935-39) and was in the country when the Japanese Army invaded in 1937.
Stilwell arrived at Okinawa on 23rd June but by that time the battle was virtually over and the following month he took over from Chester Nimitz as military governor of the Ryukyus.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWstilwell.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Stilwell: The GIs' Favorite - YANK - October 6, 1944
Joseph W. Stilwell, the U.S. Army's newest four-star general, is as regular and down-to-earth as the scuffed GI shoes he wears when tramping through the Burma jungles.
Stilwell introduced himself to the surprised soldier, smiled and said: "I'm going to have to embarrass you a little." Then, after his aide had read the citation, the general pulled the sheet over the soldier's chest and pinned the Silver Star on the sheet.
Stilwell was born on Mar. 19, 1883, at Palatka, Fla., where his parents were vacationing from the family home in Yonkers, N.Y. After graduating from Yonkers High School, where he played football and basketball, he entered West Point in 1900.
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 Joseph Stilwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, EHandler: no quick summary.
The joint chiefs of staff is a panel comprising the highest-ranking members of each major branch of the armed services in any particular country....
Stilwell clashed frequently with the commander of the 11th Army Group, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_stilwell.htm   (1656 words)

  
 SEC Info - Stilwell Joseph, et al. - SC 13D/A - Prudential Bancorp Inc of Pennsylvania - On 8/1/05
Stilwell Value LLC is in the business of serving as the general partner of Stilwell Value Partners I and related partnerships.
Therefore, Joseph Stilwell is deemed to share voting and disposition power with Stilwell Partners with regard to those shares of Common Stock.
Stilwell Value LLC and Joseph Stilwell, in their capacities, respectively, as general partner of Stilwell Value Partners I, and managing and sole member of Stilwell Value LLC and general partner of Stilwell Partners, are entitled to an allocation of a portion of profits.
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 General Joseph W. Stilwell Honored on New Postage Stamp
Stilwell was the military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Peking from 1935 to 1939.
In late 1943, Stilwell led two divisions of Chinese troops he had trained in India, and a U.S. long-range penetration group known as "Merrill's Marauders," back into northern Burma to retake it from Japan and to reopen the Burma Road.
In 1945 Stilwell was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Oak Leaf cluster of the Distinguished Service Medal.
www.psestamp.com /articles/article2634.chtml   (763 words)

  
 The Road to Burma -- More on the India-Burma Campaign
In late May 1942, somber-looking Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell told a group of reporters that his allied force “got a hell of a beating.” Stilwell, a career Army officer and veteran of World War I, had just been handed a sound defeat by Japanese forces operating in Burma.
Stilwell’s long-time friend Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill was placed in command and the unit was ready for action by early 1944.
Stilwell also planed to use Myitkyina as a bomber base for attacks on the Japanese homeland.
www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/india/burma.html   (1591 words)

  
 Hoover Institution Archives: The World War II Diaries of General Joseph W. Stilwell (1941-1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
The World War II diaries of General Joseph W. Stilwell, my grandfather, are a subset—albeit a historically very significant subset—of his diaries that span the period from 1904 to 1946 and form part of the Stilwell papers at the Hoover Institution Archives.
Stilwell's miscellaneous and undated jottings at the beginnings and ends of some of the volumes have been aggregated at the end of each year of entries, with their provenance indicated.
Joseph W. Stilwell's diaries are covered by the copyright law of the United States.
www.hoover.org /hila/stilwell.htm   (1293 words)

  
 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
STILWELL, JOSEPH WARREN [Stilwell, Joseph Warren] 1883-1946, American general, b.
Defeated in Myanmar by the Japanese troops, he retreated (May, 1942) through the jungles to India, where he built up forces for the successful counterattack (1943-44) in Myanmar.
In Oct., 1944, Stilwell was recalled to the United States because of friction with Chiang.
www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Stilwell   (161 words)

  
 Warren Weidenburner CHINA-BURMA-INDIA
Stilwell was the military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Peking from 1935 to 1939 and became fluent in Chinese.
The Burma Road was officially reopened in January 1945 and Stilwell was relieved as commander of CBI.
To reopen communications with the Chinese, General Stilwell chose Ledo as the western terminus of his road into North Burma, to be built with the engineering and organizational skills of General Lewis A. Pick.
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 Stilwell Road (Ledo Road)
General Stilwell's Operations Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Frank D. Merrill recommended building a road from Ledo, Assam, India to Burma connecting the old Burma Road to provide a Land Supply to China and Burma for support of the Allied soldiers who were fighting in the North Burma.
General Stilwell had organized a 'Service of Supply' (SOS) under the command of Major General Raymond A. Wheeler, a high profile US Army Engineer and assigned him to look after the construction of the Ledo road.
In the course of time, the Stilwell Road had virtually disappeared due to the road lies in the lands of three different nation that are China, Burma and India and due to non maintenance by the respective nations.
www.geocities.com /nicchg/stilwell.html   (954 words)

  
 American Physicians Capital, Inc. Adds Investor Joseph Stilwell to its Board of Directors
Stilwell is a New York based-private investor and his Stilwell Group is one of the Company's largest shareholders.
Spencer Schneider, who was appointed to the Board in 2002 as a nominee of the Stilwell Group and later elected by shareholders for a three- year term, will continue as a Director.
Stilwell's appointment, the Stilwell Group has agreed to a new three-year standstill agreement which replaces the 2002 agreement which was set to expire in February 2005.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-10-2004/0002401957&EDATE=   (225 words)

  
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Cadets 1st Class Jacqueline Stilwell and David Bunce are second cousins and the great-grand-children of Gen. Joseph Stilwell, USMA Class of 1904.
Stilwell said she would also love to share this moment with her grandfather.
Stilwell said the relatives and ancestors on both sides of her family made her choose an Army career.
www.usma.edu /publicaffairs/PV/040521/stilwell.htm   (481 words)

  
 Antithetic American Experiences in China
Stilwell was a man intent on insuring the correctness of his policy.
Tuchman uses Stilwell’s diary notations and innuendoes to insinuate that Chennault was profiteering from a prostitution ring in the system of hostels which the Chinese ran for the Fourteenth Air Force.
She repeats Stilwell’s claim that flaws in the aircraft design, which became apparent in turbulent conditions associated with flying the Hump, “proved lethal for many fliers, further embittering the already sour morale” of the Air Transport Command.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1972/jan-feb/pickler.html   (2502 words)

  
 Vinegar Joe and the Generalissimo by Tai-chun Kuo, Hsiao-ting Lin, and Ramon H. Myers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
In the report, the War Department suggested that Stilwell’s position in China should be clarified and a determination made as to whether Stilwell should be replaced by another American official.
The Joseph W. Stilwell papers in the Hoover Institution Archives span the entire length of Stilwell’s military career, from his service as an intelligence officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe at the end of World War I through his time in China during World War II.
Stilwell’s World War II diaries have been transcribed and may be consulted online at www.hoover.org/hila/stilwell.htm.
www.hooverdigest.org /053/kuo.html   (2337 words)

  
 Residence of General Stilwell: Chongqing Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
General Stilwell was a true friend of the Chinese people as well as a Chinese linguist.
Stilwell was sent to the battlefield in Nanjing and Shanghai.
In 1928, at the age of forty-five, Stilwell was raised to lieutenant colonel and, in August of the next year, he left his post in China and returned to the States.
www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/chongqing/stilwell.htm   (785 words)

  
 General Joseph W. Stilwell and Dr. William B. Bettus
The collection of papers on General Joseph W. Stilwell and William B. Pettus is one of the sub-collections out of the Pettus Archival Project at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.
General Joseph W. Stilwell was the earliest military student at the college and was among the six military officers who later became generals.
Soon after they settled down, Stilwell began his language study at the college which was a few streets away from the Forbidden City.
www.cgu.edu /print/3359.asp   (1100 words)

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