Editing Lloyd Fredendall (section)

===Reassignment and stateside duty===
At Eisenhower's recommendation, Fredendall returned to the United States. Eisenhower's aide made a report on Fredendall to [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], in which he communicated, without elaboration, Eisenhower's view that Fredendall should be reassigned to a training command.<ref name=blumenson284>Blumenson, p. 284.</ref> As a result, Fredendall spent the rest of the war in command of the Second Army which was responsible for training in the eastern United States. Because he had not been formally reprimanded by Eisenhower, he was eligible for appointment to lieutenant general and three-star assignment, which he duly received, along with a hero's welcome on his return to the United States.<ref name=blumenson284/> His promotion became effective in June 1943.

While commanding the [[Central Defense Command]] and the [[Second United States Army|U.S. Second Army]] at [[Memphis, Tennessee]], Fredendall supervised training and field maneuvers, gave away brides,<ref>"Captain and Army Nurse Wed", ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 10, 1944.</ref> and at first even granted interviews to members of the press. However, after a sarcastic comment on his generalship by a ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine reporter, Fredendall changed his mind, and largely blocked further press coverage of his command.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081214173018/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802667,00.html "Fredendall For Lear"], ''Time'' magazine, April 12, 1943.</ref> The widespread custom of [[Theater (warfare)|theater]] commanders to transfer senior commanders who had failed in battlefield assignments to stateside training commands did not in any way improve the reputation or [[morale]] of the latter, who were now saddled with the difficult job of convincing a disgraced commander to take the lead in advocating radical improvements in existing army training programs—programs which, like Fredendall himself, had contributed to the embarrassing U.S. Army reverses in [[North Africa]].<ref name="ossad"/>

Author [[Charles B. MacDonald]] described Fredendall as a "man of bombast and bravado in speech and manner [who] failed to live up to the image he tried to create." [[Historian]] [[Carlo D'Este]] has described Fredendall as "one of the most inept senior officers to hold a high command during World War II."<ref>D'Este, Carlo (1995). ''Patton: A Genius for War''. New York: HarperCollins. {{ISBN|0-06-016455-7}}.</ref> 

Fredendall served through the end of the war in 1945, and retired on March 31, 1946.