[GH85Carrera]

We were watching a movie the other night, about WW2 and they mentiond a LT. General and I tried to explain to my wife that the LT General outranked a Major General, and then I got to doubting my memory.

Dad was an Air Force officer, so we saw a lot of officers, but not many Generals.

If a one star general is a Brigadier general,
and a 2 star general is a Major general,
and a 3 star general is a Lieutenant general (wait a Lieutenant outranks a Major?)
and a 4 star general is just a general? No special term, just General?

The 5 star generals were only for WW2 to keep the British from getting upset taking orders from an equal rank officer and there are no 5 star officers now. And one bit of trivia, a 5 star general can never retire, that are active duty until death.

The only 6 star generals were George Washington and John J. Pershing and they never got the stars to wear, just an honorary thing.

So why no special name for a 4 star general?

And how did a LT outrank a major?

The burning question of the day!