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Jacob Loucks Devers (/ ˈ d ɛ v ər z /; 8 September 1887 – 15 October 1979) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the 6th Army Group in the European Theater of World War II. He was involved in the development and adoption of numerous weapons, including the M4 Sherman and M26 Pershing tanks, the DUKW amphibious truck, the ...
Jacob L. Devers was a U.S. general during World War II, whose 6th Army Group successfully penetrated German-held positions in central Europe and helped wrest the mainland from Nazi control.
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General Jacob L. Devers (1887-1979) was born at York, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1909. He held a number of field and staff positions in the U.S. Army and also taught for several years at West Point.
In the final drive to liberate western Europe from Nazi occupation, he was one of only three army group commanders under Dwight D. Eisenhower (the others being the more enduringly famous Bernard Law Montgomery and Omar N. Bradley). Among top Allied commanders, no one showed a surer touch than Devers at handling recalcitrant foreign subordinates.
Oct 17, 1979 · Gen. Jacob Loucks Devers, retired, whose 44 years in the United States Army included service as a West Point artillery teacher and as a top commander of Allied forces during World War II, died...
Jacob Loucks Devers ( / ˈdɛvərz /; 8 September 1887 – 15 October 1979) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the 6th Army Group in the European Theater of World War II.
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Dec 31, 2016 · Army Gen. Jacob “Jake” L. Devers appears on the first page of this long overdue biography: “So, why is Jacob Devers a forgotten general?” Why, indeed? Devers finished World War II as a...
