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Did you know ...

• Carl Fredrik Johannes Bødtker, a military officer whose highest rank was Major General, presided over the Norwegian Order of Freemasons?
• Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House (detail pictured) on fire during the burning of Columbia in 1865?
• Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years?
• brothers Johan and Werner Christie both obtained the rank of Major General in the Royal Norwegian Air Force?
• the British officer Henry Lindsay Bethune became a Major General in the Persian Army of Mohammad Shah and received the Order of the Lion and the Sun for his services?
• in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?
• retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum?
• Prince Rupert's white poodle Boye was given the rank of Sergeant-Major-General, and was believed by some to be the Devil in disguise?
• Lt. General Charles Roadman II (pictured), the son of U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and command pilot Major General Charles Roadman, was the Air Force's 16th Surgeon General?
• French Major General René Cogny, who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War, was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
• Major General Douglas Alexander Graham was once rescued by Victoria Cross recipient Henry May?
• Major General George F. Hopkinson was the only British airborne general to be killed during the Second World War?
• Major General Robert Lee Howze (pictured) once threatened to dismiss an entire class from the United States Military Academy?
• Filipino Major General Jovito Palparan is credited with reducing communist insurgencies on the island of Samar by 80 percent?