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Commander↕ | Nationality↕ | Highest Rank↕ | Primary Theater↕ | Key Battle/Campaign↕ | Known For↕ |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | American | General of the Army | Europe | D-Day (Normandy), 1944 | Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, planned and executed Operation Overlord |
Georgy Zhukov | Soviet | Marshal of the Soviet Union | Eastern Front | Battle of Berlin, 1945 | Turned the tide at Stalingrad and Kursk, most decorated Soviet general |
Erwin Rommel | German | Field Marshal | North Africa | Siege of Tobruk, 1942 | The Desert Fox, brilliant tactician, forced to commit suicide for plot against Hitler |
Bernard Montgomery | British | Field Marshal | North Africa / Europe | Battle of El Alamein, 1942 | First major Allied land victory over Axis, methodical planning style |
Douglas MacArthur | American | General of the Army | Pacific | Philippines campaign, 1944-45 | I shall return promise, island-hopping strategy, accepted Japan's surrender |
Chester Nimitz | American | Fleet Admiral | Pacific | Battle of Midway, 1942 | Commander of Pacific Fleet, turned the Pacific war at Midway |
George S. Patton | American | General | North Africa / Europe | Battle of the Bulge relief, 1944 | Aggressive tank warfare, rapid advance across France, controversial personality |
Heinz Guderian | German | Colonel General | Europe | Fall of France, 1940 | Father of blitzkrieg, pioneer of armored warfare doctrine |
Erich von Manstein | German | Field Marshal | Eastern Front | Third Battle of Kharkov, 1943 | Planned Ardennes breakthrough, considered finest German strategist |
Isoroku Yamamoto | Japanese | Admiral | Pacific | Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 | Architect of Pearl Harbor attack, killed when plane shot down in 1943 |
William Slim | British | Field Marshal | Burma | Battle of Imphal-Kohima, 1944 | Turned defeat into victory in Burma, beloved by troops |
Omar Bradley | American | General of the Army | Europe | Normandy breakout, 1944 | The GI's General, commanded largest US force ever assembled |
Konstantin Rokossovsky | Soviet-Polish | Marshal of the Soviet Union | Eastern Front | Operation Bagration, 1944 | Survived Stalin's purges, brilliant encirclement at Stalingrad |
Charles de Gaulle | French | Brigadier General | Free France | Liberation of Paris, 1944 | Leader of Free France from London, rallied French resistance |
Tomoyuki Yamashita | Japanese | General | Pacific | Fall of Singapore, 1942 | Tiger of Malaya, captured Singapore with smaller force, executed as war criminal |
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