Edward M. Flanagan Jr.

Edward M. Flanagan Jr. (13 ga Yulin 1921 - 7 ga Nuwamba 2019) ya kasance jami'in aiki a cikin Sojojin Amurka . Tsohon sojan yakin duniya na biyu, Yaƙin Koriya, da Yaƙin Vietnam, ya yi aiki daga 1943 zuwa 1978 kuma ya kai matsayin janar janar. Ayyukan Flanagan sun haɗa da Cibiyar Yakin Yakin Musamman ta John F. Kennedy da Makarantar, 1st Infantry Division, da Sojoji na shida, kuma lambobin yabo sun haɗa da lambobin yabo guda biyu na Medal na Ayyuka na Sojoji, lambobin yabo biyu na Legion of Merit, da Medal na Bronze Star.

Dan asalin ƙauyen Saugerties, New York, Flanagan ya kammala karatu tare da aji na lokacin yaƙi na Kwalejin Sojan Amurka na Janairu 1943 kuma ya cancanci a cikin Ofishin Artillery kuma ya kammala karatu daga Makarantar Sojan Sama ta Amurka, sannan ya yi aiki a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu na Philippines na 1944 da 1945, gami da yaƙi a Luzon. Daga baya ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Okinawa da mamaye Japan .

 Rayuwa ta farko 
Edward Michael Flanagan Jr., wanda ake kira "Fly", an haife shi a ƙauyen Saugerties, New York a ranar 13 ga Yuli 1921, ɗan Edward Michael Flinagan Sr. da Marie (Sinnott) Flanagan .  Ya girma kuma ya yi karatu a Saugerties, kuma ya kammala karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Saugerties a shekarar 1937.   Daga nan sai ya halarci Kwalejin Soja ta Staunton a shirye-shiryen halartar Kwalejin Tsaro ta Amurka (West Point).  A watan Janairun 1939, Flanagan na ɗaya daga cikin masu neman takara biyu waɗanda suka sami nasarar kammala jarrabawar gasa don alƙawura zuwa West Point wanda wakilin Amurka Lewis K. Rockefeller ya bayar. 

Flanagan ya halarci West Point daga Yuli 1939 zuwa Janairu 1943, lokacin da ajin sa ya kammala buƙatun da wuri saboda buƙatar ƙwararrun jami'ai a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Flanagan ya kammala karatu a matsayi na 283 na 409, kuma ya karbi kwamishinsa a matsayin mataimakin na biyu na Field Artillery. Bayan kammala karatunsa, ya kammala karatun Artillery Officer Basic Course a Fort Sill, Oklahoma da kuma Makarantar Sojojin Sojan Sama ta Amurka. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa mataimakin farko a watan Mayu na shekara ta 1943.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2019
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1921