Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who galvanized a "beaten" army in Korea into a fighting force capable of routing Communist troops three times its size, died Monday in his sleep at his suburban Pittsburgh home. He was 98.
Ridgway died of heart failure, said his attorney, Donald Gerlach. The general died in Fox Chapel, Pa., where he had lived since 1955 when he retired as Army chief of staff to become chairman of the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh.
The World War II commander of the legendary 82nd Airborne Division led the Army's first major airborne operation in Sicily and led his paratroopers in the D-Day landing in Normandy.
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