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Otto L. Nelson Jr.
Otto Lauren Nelson Jr. (November 2, 1902 – June 25, 1985) was an officer in the United States Army. Biography Otto L. Nelson was born in Omaha, Nebraska on November 2, 1902, the child of Swedish immigrants. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1924 and was commissioned in the Infantry Branch (United States), Infantry branch. In 1932 he took a Master of Arts from Columbia University. He graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Command and General Staff School in 1938 and took a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, Harvard in 1939. He was a history and economics instructor at West Point from 1929 to 1935, and from 1938 to 1941. Nelson was a member of the Army General Staff during World War II. He participated in the reorganizations of the Army command structure at the beginning of World War II and at the end of the war. Nelson documented those reorganizations and the history of the Army General Staff in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United States cities by population, 41st-most-populous city, Omaha had a population of 486,051 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The eight-county Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which extends into Iowa, has approximately 1 million residents and is the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 55th-largest metro area in the United States. Omaha is the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
