The United States bombardment of Fallujah began in April 2003, one month following the beginning of the invasion of Iraq.
 In April 2003 United States forces fired on a group of demonstrators who were protesting against the US presence.
 US forces alleged they were fired at first, but Human Rights Watch who visited the site of the protests concluded that physical evidence did not corroborate their allegations and confirmed the residents' accusations that the US forces fired indiscriminately at the crowd with no provocation.
 17 people were killed and 70 were wounded.
 In a later incident, US soldiers fired on protesters again; Fallujah's mayor, Taha Bedaiwi al-Alwani, said that two people were killed and 14 wounded.
 Iraqi insurgents were able to claim the city a year later, before they were ousted by a siege and two assaults by US forces.
 These events caused widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis in the city and surrounding areas.
 As of 2004, the city was largely ruined, with 60% of buildings damaged or destroyed, and the population at 30%–50% of pre-war levels.
Harold Keith "Johnny" Johnson (February 22, 1912 – September 24, 1983) was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1964 to 1968.
 Regarded as a premier tactician, Johnson became skeptical that the level of resources given to the Vietnam War, much of which went into 'find, fix, and destroy the big main force units' operations, could deliver victory.
 Johnson came to believe that the Communist forces held a trump card, because they controlled whether there were engagements with US forces, giving an option to simply avoid battle with US forces if the situation warranted it.
FleetEx 83 was a mission that took place between March 29 and April 17 of 1983 consisted of three carrier battle groups.
 The US carriers Enterprise, Midway, and Coral Sea and their respective escort ships participated in the exercise.
 The mission according to Admiral Robert Long, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, comprised “the largest fleet exercise conducted by the Pacific Fleet since World War II.”
 The group consisted of approximately forty ships, 23,000 crew members, and 300 aircraft.
 The exercise lasted approximately two weeks and was conducted in the Northern Pacific, within flight range of the Soviet Union coast.
 The purpose of the mission was to intentionally provoke the Soviet Union into responding so that the US forces could study their response, tactics, and capabilities as well as demonstrate the effective operations of a three-carrier battle force in joint and combined operations across multiple service branches in both the United States and Canada, in a high-threat environment.
 The exercises were extremely successful and effective in integrating the combined forces of the United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Canadian Naval forces into an effective battle force.
 Despite poor weather, the fleet excelled throughout the exercise.
The Battle of Fort Driant was a constituent battle in the 1944 Battle of Metz, during the Lorraine Campaign and the greater Siegfried Line Campaign.
 The battle was on occupied French territory between the forces of the United States Third Army under the command of General George S. Patton and the forces of Nazi Germany under General Otto von Knobelsdorff.
China Burma India Theater (CBI) was the United States military designation during World War II for the China and Southeast Asian or India-Burma (IBT) theaters.
 Operational command of Allied forces (including US forces) in the CBI was officially the responsibility of the Supreme Commanders for South East Asia or China.
 However, US forces in practice were usually overseen by General Joseph Stilwell, the Deputy Allied Commander in China; the term "CBI" was significant in logistical, material and personnel matters; it was and is commonly used within the US for these theaters.
General George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North or OP DAN was an operation conducted by Marines, A co. 2/504th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, an attachment of the 101st Airborne Division, MWSS 374 and Iraqi security forces in 2008 in Al Anbar Province, Salah Ad Din Province, and Ninewa Province to hunt down and rid the Northern part of Iraq of insurgents.
 It was known that the desert north of Lake Tharthar was being used by insurgents to move weapons, munitions, and foreign fighters from Syria to Mosul.
 During Spring and Summer of 2008, a task force of Marines and paratroopers established a base of operations in the desert to the north of the lake and conducted patrols of the surrounding area to break the supply lines.
 The US forces managed to locate and destroy a large number of explosives and weapons, as well as kill or capture known enemy combatants.
 In the process, A co. 2/504th PIR conducted the first company-sized operation using the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.
 As these operations continued, Iraqi Army outposts were built and staffed, allowing for the Iraqi Army to assume the US forces' duties in Fall 2009.
The Battle of Haifa Street was a battle fought during January 2007 for the control of Haifa Street, a two-mile-long street in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, pitting American and Iraqi Army forces against various Sunni insurgent forces between January 6 and January 9, 2007 (phase one), and then two weeks later on January 24 when US forces launched a second attempt to clear Haifa Street of insurgents once and for all.
 This battle was the precursor for clearing operations that would set the conditions for "the surge" which ultimately neutralized insurgent groups in this part of Baghdad during the spring and summer of 2007.
Operation Peninsula Strike was a series of raids conducted by American troops from 9 to 13 June 2003 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
 It took place on a peninsula alongside the Tigris River near Balad, Iraq.
 Conducted by members of Task Force Ironhorse, US forces sought to eliminate Ba'ath Party members, paramilitary, and other subversive units.
 Specifically, US Forces were to hit five objectives simultaneously, detain the targets and screen them for intelligence.
The Second Battle of Fort Sumter was fought on September 8, 1863, in Charleston Harbor.
 Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard, who had commanded the defenses of Charleston and captured Fort Sumter in the first battle of the war, was in overall command of the defenders.
 In the battle, Union forces under Major General Quincy Gillmore attempted to retake the fort at the mouth of the harbor.
 Union gunners pummeled the fort from their batteries on Morris Island.
 After a severe bombing of the fort, Beauregard suspecting an attack replaced the artillerymen and all but one of the fort's guns with 320 infantrymen, who repulsed the naval landing party.
 Gillmore had reduced Fort Sumter to a pile of rubble, but the Confederate flag still waved over the ruins.

Question: What was the middle name of the General who commanded the US forces at the Battle of Fort Driant ? 
Answer: Smith