John Thomas Corley

United States
Born 1914-08-04, Brooklyn, New York
Died 1977-04-16

Description

United States Army officer, a boxer at West Point (class of 1938) and later a brigadier general, decorated in the Second World War.

Teachers (1)

  • Tom Jenkins
    swordsBoxing Probable
    Probable
    Wikipedia only.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    “from 1912 to 1943, he also taught wrestling and boxing at the New York Military Academy at Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, one of his pupils being John Thomas Corley”
    — Tom Jenkins (wrestler). Wikipedia (English) link history info

Sources

“He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1938, where he also was an accomplished boxer prior to his active duty service.”
— John Thomas Corley. Wikipedia (English) link history info

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M61REWPVHBPNPP179Y45GJWX
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Cite and reuse

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). John Thomas Corley. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M61REWPVHBPNPP179Y45GJWX - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M61REWPVHBPNPP179Y45GJWX, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {John Thomas Corley}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M61REWPVHBPNPP179Y45GJWX}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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