Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 - April 8, 1981) was a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army of the U.S. Army.

From the Normandy landings through the end of the war in Europe, Bradley had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west; he ultimately commanded forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a U.S. field commander.

After the war, Bradley headed the Veterans Administration and became Chief of Staff of the United States Army. In 1949, he was appointed the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the following year oversaw the policy-making for the Korean War, before retiring from active service in 1953.

		Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (left), Commanding General, U.S. First Army, listens as Major General J. Lawton Collins, Commanding General, Seventh Corps, describes how the city of Cherbourg was taken. Photographed in late June or early July 1944.		American Commanders, Left to right: Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 12th Army Group; Brig. Gen. Otto P. Weyland, XIX Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Third Army. General Patton's dog, Willie, is shown in the foreground.
Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley (First US Army), Major General Leonard T. Gerow (V Corps), and General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF).		Brig. Gen. Omar Bradley, commander of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, congratulates newly qualified parachute officers of the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion in 1941. Bradley vigorously pursued the development of airborne forces and was instrumental in the development of the Officer Candidate School system that would produce thousands of officers during World War II.		Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley, II Corps commander, consults with staff members. Bradley assumed command of II Corps, his first combat command, in April 1943 and led it through the rest of the North African campaign and the fighting in Sicily.
Above: Normandy Invasion, June 1944. Senior U.S. officers watching operations from the bridge of USS Augusta (CA-31), off Normandy, June 8, 1944. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force; Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Army, Commanding General, U.S. First Army; Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, (with binoculars) Chief of Staff for RAdm. Kirk; and Major General Hugh Keen, U.S. Army.		Normandy, June, 1974: Omar N. Bradley, right, "The Soldier's General," salutes during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, during which he had commanded the First Army.		Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet in their conference room at the Pentagon in 1949. Left to Right: General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, Chairman JCS; General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, USAF; General J. Lawton Collins, USA; and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman USN.