Move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man's heroics at 18 in World War I
Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old ...
Army's Fort Benning gets name back — this time, honoring Nebraska WWI hero
After two years as Fort Moore, the Army base formerly known as Fort Benning is getting its old name back. Now it's being ...
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Fort Moore to be renamed Fort Benning; named after Nebraskan
A Georgia military base will now officially be named for a Nebraska war hero.Gov. Jim Pillen shared Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth memorandum that ordered th ...
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Fort Moore renamed Fort Benning, this time in honor of Nebraska WWI hero
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the Army to change the name of Fort Moore to Fort Benning in honor of Cpl. Fred ...
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Hegseth restores Fort Moore to Fort Benning in honor of WWI Soldier
Henry L. Benning, the installation kept Benning's name until being renamed Fort Moore — after Army Lt. Gen Hal Moore and his wife, Julia Compton Moore — in May 2023. A native of Norfolk, Nebraska, Cpl ...
Trump’s move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man’s heroics at 18 in World War I
Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century. The military changed the ...