The team took the very un-Italian approach of calling the fledgling shipyard after John J. “Blackjack” Pershing, the American general who had a heavy World War II tank named in his honor. Unlike other ...

This is General Pershing with us.” Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: “You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you.

“Black Jack.” The A.E.F. grew up. Pershing was methodical. He made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style—with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill.

Pershing Square received that name nearly a hundred years ago, in a burst of enthusiasm for the World War I general called Black Jack Pershing. A few miles to the west stands MacArthur Park, named ...

A. Pershing Avenue was named in honor of Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing during a visit to Davenport on Jan. 6, 1920. Pershing led American forces to victory in Europe during World War I.

Why Pershing? July 15 marks the 75th anniversary of his death in 1948. July 15 also marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the removal of 763,000 ceramic tiles ...

Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing’s great-great-grandfather is buried near Pleasant Unity in Smith’s Grave Yard; his settlement of Coventry still exists and there is a large log barn on the ...

There will be a sneak preview and discussion of “Black Jack Pershing: Love and War” on Wednesday Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 201 N. 13th St., Lincoln.

In response, we sent a few thousand troops under the command of Blackjack Pershing to hunt down the bandits. It cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. Pershing never captured ...