Maxwell D. Taylor

Person · Open Library

Born

1901

Died

1987

Works

7

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Film & TV

Acting · Keytesville, Missouri, USA

Known for

• Hearts and Minds — Self - Ambassador to South Vietnam 1964-65 (archive footage)1974
• Small World — Self1958
• Crusade in Europe — Self (archive footage)1949

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

United States

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,797x

2. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,441x

3. The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners

   · 2019 · cited 21,717x

4. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

   · 2014 · cited 21,631x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,616x

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Quotes

• “Give me three days and three nights of hard fighting, and you will be relieved.”
• “We all have a share in it, and none of it is good. There are no heroes, just bums. I include myself in that.”
• “First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought we were going into another Korean war, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies. We never understood them, and that was another surprise. And we knew even less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this dirty kind of business. It's very dangerous.”
• “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
• “The atomic explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided a new case for the decisive character of strategic bombing. The atomic bomb offered air power a new weapon with tremendously increased destructiveness and encouraged once more the belief that an ultimate weapon was in the hands of our Air Force which would allow the United States to impose a sort of Pax Americana on the world. The corollary to this belief was that conventional military forces would have little or no value in the new era.”
• “As we learned on the American frontier, it is impossible to plant corn outside the stockade until the Indians are driven away.”

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Key facts

President

Lyndon B. Johnson , Richard M. Nixon

Preceded by

Clark Clifford

Succeeded by

George Whelan Anderson Jr.

Deputy

Williston B. Palmer , Lyman Lemnitzer

Born

Maxwell Davenport Taylor , ( 1901-08-26 ) 26 August 1901, Keytesville , Missouri , U.S.

Died

19 April 1987 (1987-04-19) (aged 85), Washington, D.C. , U.S.

Education

United States Military Academy ( BS ), Metropolitan Community College, Missouri

Allegiance

United States

Branch service

United States Army

Years of service

1922–1959, 1961–1964

Rank

General

Unit

Engineer Branch , Field Artillery Branch

Commands

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Chief of Staff of the United States Army , United States Military Academy , 101st Airborne Division , 82nd Airborne Division Artillery , 12th Field Artillery Battalion

Battles wars

World War II Italian campaign Operation Husky Allied invasion of Italy Operation Overlord Battle of Normandy Battle of Carentan Operation Market Garden Battle of the Bulge Siege of Bastogne Occupation of Japan Korean War Vietnam War

Awards

Distinguished Service Cross , Army Distinguished Service Medal (4), Silver Star (2), Legion of Merit , Bronze Star Medal , Purple Heart

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