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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.