Alabama’s Confederate-honoring Fort Rucker could be renamed after Harriet Tubman or Colin Powell.
A congressionally mandated Naming Commission for military assets has revealed 87 potential new names for nine Army installations that now honor Confederate generals from the Civil War, the group announced Thursday.
The nine bases in question, all in former Confederate states, were named during the 1910s and 1940s amid the south’s Jim Crow era. They are Fort Polk in Louisiana, Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia, Fort Rucker in Alabama, and Fort Hood in Texas.
The list of recommendations also includes several of the Army’s Medal of Honor recipients, such as Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, 1st Lt. Audie Murphy, Sgt. Alvin York, and the first Black man to receive the honor, Sgt. William Carney. The list also includes George Marshall, who was Army Chief of Staff during World War II and as Secretary of State led the effort to rebuild Europe after the war, and World War II Gen. Omar Bradley, who became the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Audie Murphy is credited with single-handedly fighting off dozens of Germans during World War II in France by climbing aboard a burning tank destroyer while wounded and using its machine gun. He later became a Hollywood actor and starred in “To Hell and Back,” a movie about his service during the war.
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