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Published December 28, 2012, 12:00 AM

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

In this Jan. 13, 1991, photo, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. troops in the Gulf, gazes from the window of his small jet on his way out to visit U.S. troops in the desert in Saudi Arabia.

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    In this Jan. 13, 1991, photo, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. troops in the Gulf, gazes from the window of his small jet on his way out to visit U.S. troops in the desert in Saudi Arabia.

In this Jan. 13, 1991, photo, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. troops in the Gulf, gazes from the window of his small jet on his way out to visit U.S. troops in the desert in Saudi Arabia.

Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. He was 78. A sister of Schwarzkopf, Ruth Barenbaum of Middlebury, Vt., said that Schwarzkopf died from complications from pneumonia.

A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as “Stormin’ Norman” for a notoriously explosive temper.

“Barbara and I mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation,” said former President George H.W. Bush. “... He was a good and decent man — and a dear friend.”

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