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<span class=prefix>Gen</span> Nathan Bedford Forrest III
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Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest III Veteran Famous memorial

Birth
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
Death
13 Jun 1943 (aged 38)
Kiel, Stadtkreis Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Cenotaph
Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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US Army Air Corps Brigadier General. He was the first American General Officer killed in combat against the Nazis during World War II. His plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel, Germany. A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. His body was recovered and buried by the Germans, after washing up at a seaplane base, in a small cemetery in Wier, Germany. He was the great-grandson of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1949, his body was returned from Germany and reburied in Arlington at the request of his wife, Frances Brassler Forrest Martin. This memorial depicts his cenotaph. His actual burial location is at Arlington National Cemetery.
US Army Air Corps Brigadier General. He was the first American General Officer killed in combat against the Nazis during World War II. His plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on Kiel, Germany. A 1928 graduate of West Point, he served as Second Air Force Chief of Staff prior to transfer to the U.S. Eighth Air Force in England. His body was recovered and buried by the Germans, after washing up at a seaplane base, in a small cemetery in Wier, Germany. He was the great-grandson of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1949, his body was returned from Germany and reburied in Arlington at the request of his wife, Frances Brassler Forrest Martin. This memorial depicts his cenotaph. His actual burial location is at Arlington National Cemetery.

Bio by: Vincent Astor


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Originally Created by: ShaneO
  • Added: Oct 20, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119026579/nathan_bedford-forrest: accessed ), memorial page for Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest III (5 Apr 1905–13 Jun 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 119026579, citing National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.