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  Joseph Warren Stilwell Biography | Encyclopedia of World 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.
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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 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 was almost universally disliked by the soldiers under his command, unlike Bill Slim, who was perhaps the ultimate soldiers general.
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 Joseph Stilwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Joseph Warren Stilwell (March 19, 1883 - 1946) was a United States Army four-star general known for his service in China.
Like many other Americans involved in Chinese affairs, Stilwell's diplomatic efforts were obliterated with the rise to power of the Communist Party of China and retreat of the Kuomintang government to Taiwan in the Chinese Civil War.
Late in the war, he was reassigned from China 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.
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 The Burma Road
But even as Stilwell was laying out his strategy, fast-invading tendrils of the Japanese infantry were encircling him and his group from the south, the east, and the northeast.
Stilwell and his crew were on their own.
Raised in a mansion overlooking the Hudson River at Yonkers, New York, Joseph Warren Stilwell was a blue-blood Yankee, West Point graduate, and redoubtable human ramrod of a man. At 5 feet, 7 3/4 inches, he was storied to be technically a quarter-inch too short to have been admitted to the U.S. Military Academy.
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 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.
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 Stilwell, Joseph Warren. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
His experiences in Asia are recorded in the Stilwell Papers (ed.
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 Warren Weidenburner CHINA-BURMA-INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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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 Residence of General Joseph W. Stilwell: Yangtze River Cruise Tour
General Joseph Warren Stilwell was chief commander of US forces in the China-Burma-India Theatre during World War II.
Stilwell was sent to the battlefield in Nanjing and Shanghai.
In 1928, at the age of forty-five, Stilwell was raised to lieutenant and, in August of the next year, he left his post in China and returned to the States.
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 AbsoluteFacts.nl - Stilwell, Joseph W. (1883-1946) Amerikaanse generaal
Joseph Stilwell was lange tijd werkzaam in China, waardoor hij een grote kennis verwierf van de Chinese taal en de volksgewoonten.
Joseph Stilwell was commandant van het Chinese leger, dat door de Japanners teruggeslagen werd uit Birma.
Joseph Stilwell was een tactloze, resolute militair en een slimme strateeg.
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 Gen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Joseph Warren Stilwell was born March 19, 1883 in Palatka, Florida, the son of Benjamin W. Stilwell and Mary Augusta (Peene) Stilwell.
Stilwell's report to Washington included the statement that "Chiang Kai-shek believes he can go on milking the United States for money and munitions by using the old gag about quitting if he is not supported.
Stilwell was known by his troops and the public as "Vinegar Joe." Unlike General Douglas MacArthur, Vinegar Joe was characterized by his candor, lack of pretension, and identification with the common soldier.
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 AllRefer.com - Joseph Warren Stilwell (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Palatka, Fla. Commissioned in the army in 1904, he fought in World War I and later served for 13 years in China.
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.
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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.
The road was renamed the Stilwell Road in honour of General Joseph Warren Stilwell at the suggestion of Chiang Kai-shek, it was known to the Engineers who built it as "Pick's Pike."
In the course of time, the Stilwell Road had virtually disappeared due to the road lies in the lands of three different nations that are China, Burma and India and due to non maintenance by the respective nations.
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 James T. McCusker, Inc. - News
Born in 1883, Stilwell spent most of World War II as Chiang Kai-shek’s Chief of Staff in China and Commander of U.S. Forces in China-Burma-India during 1942-44.
Stilwell had one of the toughest jobs of any WWII general.
By the time of his recall in 1944, Stilwell had established training centers in China and had laid the groundwork leading to the opening of the Ledo Road, which ended the land blockade of China.
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 Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell (Texas a & M University ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The result is a record of how Buckner and Stilwell came to grips with the problems of command on a war-torn island at the end of a long logistical tether.
Stilwell is a self-styled outsider, a brilliant warrior with the social graces of a porcupine.
Stilwell's entries are peppered with frank and often acrid observations about everything and everybody.
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 stilwell
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)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She also has what comes very close to being a schoolgirl crush on General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, the somewhat equivocal protagonist of her story, and betrays her own share of that complex love-hate relationship with modern China which has served as so strong a force in modern world politics.
Stilwell came into World War II as an acknowledged leader among his military peers.
Yet the fact remains that Stilwell missed futon the one item that would have made his case most convincingly, and that is success.
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 Warren, Joseph --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The village of Warren was incorporated in 1893; the city was created in 1955 through the consolidation of the village and township.
Laid out in 1795, it was named for General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
A distinguished man of letters and a master stylist, Robert Penn Warren made an extraordinary contribution to American literature with powerfully written works that explored the search for identity in a confused or corrupt South besieged by an erosion of its traditional rural values.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fordney Joseph Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fordney, Joseph Warren (1853-1932), American lumberman and legislator.
Warren, Joseph (1741-75), American patriot, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College.
Stilwell, Joseph W(arren) (1883-1946), American army officer, born in Palatka, Florida, and educated at the U.S. Military Academy.
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 Amazon.com: The Stilwell Papers.: Books: Joseph Warren, Stilwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman
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 Information about U.S. FDC: 10¢ General Joseph Stilwell: Distinguished Americans Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But the name by which General Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946) was popularly known -- "Vinegar Joe" -- refers to his refusal to ingratiate himself with others, and to the demands he placed on those around him.
He labeled himself "unreasonable, impatient, sour-balled, sullen, mad, hard, profane, vulgar," but the caustic Stilwell could have added "iron-willed." As a high school senior trying to meet the height requirement for West Point, he once stayed in bed for a week, on the theory that he could stretch himself a quarter of an inch.
Donning his WWI campaign hat, Tommy gun slung over his shoulder, Stilwell led 114 others as they hacked their way through Burmese jungles, slogged across Monsoon-swollen rivers and climbed steep mountains.
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 Stilwell Family Genealogy Forum
Re: Pinkney and Felix Stilwell of Burke Co., NC - Jennifer Stilwell 8/26/02
Re: Hattie A. Stilwell - Greg Stilwell 7/18/02
Daniel Stilwell of NY and IN Son Harry b.
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 Easy Tour China - Chongqing travel guide, Chongqing tour, Chongqing map, Chongqing hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Only 4.5 about kilometers southeast of the downtown, the residence of Joseph W. Stilwell is worth a visit.
General Joseph Warren Stilwell (1883-1946) was chief commander of US forces in the China-Burma-India Theatre during World War II.
To recognize Stilwell's contribution to the Burma Road campaign, part of the Burma Road was named the Stilwell Road.
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 Clare Boothe Luce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luce's unsettling observations eventually led to changes in British military policy in the Middle East.
During this tour, she published interviews with General Harold Alexander, commander of British troops in the Middle East; Chiang Kai-Shek; Jawaharlal Nehru; and General Joseph Warren Stilwell, commander of American troops in the China-Burma-India theater.
While in Trinidad, she faced house arrest by British Customs due to Allied discomfort over contents of a draft "Life" article.
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 Talking Points in Response to Nicholson Baker's Article in the 24 July New Yorker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For example, Barbara Tuchman, in her essay "The Houses of Research," relates the experience of stumbling upon a set of microfilm of the Sentinel at the NYPL when working on her biography of General Joseph Warren Stilwell.
The Sentinel was the weekly journal of the 15th Infantry stationed in Tientsin, to which Stilwell was attached in 1926-9.
After finding nothing on the first reel, she "was ready to send the box back, but decided as a matter of conscience to look at the second reel.
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 Pricenoia.com - Joseph Warren Stilwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
General Stilwell in China, 1942-1944: the full story (Asia in the modern world series, no. 12)
Authors: Simon Bolivar Buckner; Joseph Warren Stilwell; Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Stilwell (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century.
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 MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Joseph Warren Stilwell
MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Joseph Warren Stilwell
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), compositor austriaco, una de las figuras más influyentes en el desarrollo de la música del clasicismo (c.
Joseph E. Stiglitz (1942- ), reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los principales economistas de su generación.
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 Joseph
1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman.
1968 Darren Joseph, CFL fullback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
1872 [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress/wife of Joseph of Lyre
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