Hanging Sam noun General Samuel T. Williams of the US Army US Williams fought Pancho Villa in Mexico, and then in World War 1, World War 2, Korea and Vietnam.
Beginning in 1955, the U.S. Military Aid and Assistance Group under the command of General “Hanging Sam” Williams and General Lionel C. McGarr dismantled the small, mobile units of the French-trained army[.] — Francis FitzGerald, FireintheLake, p. 121, 1972