List of people associated with World War II
This is a list of people associated with World War II .
U Aung San (1915-1947), Commander in Chief of the Burma Independence Army
U Ba Maw , prime minister during Japanese occupation
Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
George Beurling (1921-1948), fighter ace
Gustave Biéler (1904-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
Peter Dmytruk (1920-1943), Flight Sergeant and French Resistance fighter
Charley Fox (born 1920), credited with wounding Erwin Rommel in an air attack in 1944
John Kenneth Macalister (1914-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950), Prime Minister
John Gillespie Magee, Junior (1922-1941), American who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and author of "High Flight"
Andrew George Latta (Andy) McNaughton (1887-1966), scientist, military commander, and diplomat
Frank Pickersgill (1915-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
Tommy Prince (1915-1977), Canada 's most decorated aboriginal soldier, member of the US/Canada special commando unit known as the Devil's Brigade
Colonel James Layton Ralston (1881-1948), Minister of Defense
Roméo Sabourin (1923-1944), SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
Sir William Stephenson (1896-1989), head of British intelligence for the western hemisphere and Winston Churchill's personal representative to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Georges Bidault , French Resistance activist
Denise Bloch (1915-1945), French Resistance and SOE agent
Pierre Boisson , general and governor of Equatorial Africa
Andrée Borrel (1919-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
Pierre Brossolette , French Resistance
Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
Mathilde Carré , French Resistance double agent
Edouard Daladier , prime minister
Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944), French Resistance and SOE agent
François Darlan (1881-1942), admiral, Vice Premier under Vichy
Joseph Darnand , head of Vichy France Milice
Marcel Déat (1894-1955), Fascist leader
Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and Gaullist French Resistance
Henri Dentz , Vichy France general in Syria
Jacques Doriot (1898-1945), Fascist leader
Pierre-Etienne Flandin (1889-1958), French conservative politician, foreign minister of Vichy.
Maurice Gamelin , general
Henri Giraud , general who escaped a German POW camp and became the leader of liberated North Africa until displaced by De Gaulle.
Charles Huntziger (1880-1941), General
Max Hymans (1900-1961) French resistance leader
Noor Inayet Khan , SOE agent
Marie Pierre Koenig , General and coordination of resistance activities
Pierre Laval , Vichy France Foreign Minister and Prime Minister
Philippe Leclerc , General of Free French Forces
Jean Moulin (1899-1943), French Resistance leader
Maurice Papon (1910 - ), Nazi collaborator, convicted war criminal
Henri Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), leader of Vichy France
Paul Reynaud (1878-1966), last Prime Minister of the Third Republic.
Lilian Rolfe (1914-1945), SOE agent
Odette Sansom (1912-1995), French Resistance and SOE agent
Violette Szabo (1921-1945), SOE agent
Paul Touvier (1915-1996), Nazi collaborator and only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity
Susan Travers (born 1909)
Nancy Wake (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
Maxime Weygand (1867-1965), general
Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), was a German officer of the SS and the Gestapo sent to occupied France where he became known as The Butcher of Lyon
Bayerlein, Fritz , Panzer general
Ludwig Beck (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
Johannes Blaskowitz , Colonel General
Hugo Bleicher , German counter-intelligence operative in France
Fedor von Bock , Field marshal
Juana Bormann (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps.
Martin Bormann (1900-1945?), highest ranking Nazi party administrator, Nuremburg defendant in absentia
Herta Bothe , camp guard at Bergen-Belsen
Hans Bothmann (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland
Dr. Karl Brandt , ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program
Eva Braun (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress (and wife for a day)
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), rocket scientist
Hermine Braunsteiner (1919-1999) - "The Stomping Mare"
Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr
Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp
John Demjanuk , notorious guard at the German extermination camps
Rudolf Diels (1900-1957), first head of the Gestapo
Sepp Dietrich , SS general
Karl Dönitz (1891-1980), Admiral, masterminded U-Boat warfare, Nuremburg defendant
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), top level bureaucrat
Theodor Eicke (1892-1943), a Commandant of the Dachau death camp and head of the SS Death's-Head Units
Nikolaus Falkenhorst , colonel general and commander of German troops in Norway
Eugen Fischer (1874-1967), Professor of Anthropology who promoted racial purity
Hans Frank (1900-1946), lawyer for Adolf Hitler , Nazi Governor-General of General Government in occupied Poland, Nuremburg defendant
Walter Frank (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer, he was president of the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany
Kurt Franz (1917-1998), Deputy Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp
Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Reich Minister of the Interior, Nuremburg defendant
Hans Fritzsche (1900-1953), Nazi party official who served in the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda , Nuremburg defendant
Walther Funk (1890-1960), was Adolf Hitler 's personal advisor on economic affairs and a state secretary of the Propaganda Ministry, Nuremburg defendant
Adolf Galland , Luftwaffe fighter ace
Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904-1974), diplomat
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Chancellor of Germany , propaganda chief for the Nazis
Amon Leopold Goeth , SS officer
Hermann Göring (1893-1946), commander of Luftwaffe , Nuremburg defendant
Irma Grese (1923-1945), a Senior SS Supervisor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Heinz Guderian (1888-1954), Panzer general
Erich Hartmann , fighter pilot; the most successful fighter ace in history
Karl Hass (1912-2004) - mass murderer
Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), Hitler's deputy, Nuremburg defendant
Werner Heyde , involved in human experimentations
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942), a General in the Nazi German paramilitary corps and governor of occupied Czechoslovakia
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), head of Gestapo
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Führer of Germany
Erich Hoepner , (1886-1944), general
Rudolf Höß , first commandant of the extermination camps
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), general, Chief of Operation Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces, Nuremburg defendant
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946) chief of the German Security Service, Nuremburg defendant
Herbert Kappler (1907-1978) – Gestapo head in Rome
Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), Field Marshal, Nuremburg defendant
Albert Kesselring (1881-1960), Field Marshal, commander of German troops in Italy
Günther von Kluge , Field Marshal
Ilse Koch (1906-1967), the wife of Karl Otto Koch , Commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp
Karl Otto Koch (1897-1945) first commandant at Buchenwald Extermination camp
Josef Kramer (1906-1945), was the head of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Otto Kretschmer (1912-1998), U-boat commander
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870-1950), German industrialist and weapons manufacturer
Alfried Krupp (1907-1967), arms manufacturer
Hans Langsdroff , Commander of Graf Spee Arthur Liebehenschel (1901-1948), a Commandant of both the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps
Robert Ley (1890-1945), Nazi party chief who set up the German Labor Front(1890-1945), Nuremburg defendant (committed suicide before trial)
Maria Mandel (1912-1947), chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp
Maj Karl Plagge , German Army officer [1]
Erich von Manstein (1887-1973), Field Marshal
Dr. Josef Mengele , a doctor who performed experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz extermination camp
Walther Model (1891-1945), Field Marshal
Konrad Morgen (1910-1976), "bloodhound judge"
Werner Mölders , Luftwaffe fighter ace
Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956), Foreign Minister of Germany, Nuremburg defendant
Herta Oberheuser (1911-1978), a doctor
Josef Oberhauser , commander of the Belzec extermination camp
Friedrich Paulus , Field Marshal and commander of German troops in Stalingrad
Erich Priebke (1913-) - mass murderer
Erich Raeder (1876-1960) Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Nuremburg defendant
Walther von Reichenau , field marshal
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) Nazi foreign minister, Nuremburg defendant
Lothar Rendulic
Ernst Röhm (1887-1934), NSDAP party member, who organized Adolf Hitler 's "Brownshirts"
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944), Field Marshal, "Desert Fox"
Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), Nazi ideologist, Nuremburg defendant
Rudolf Rösseler , publisher and Soviet spy
Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953), Field Marshal
Walter Schellenberg , SS general and secret service officer
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), Nazi industrialist turned humanitarian
Baldur von Schirach (1907-1974), leader of the Hitler Youth movement, Nuremburg defendant
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946), a lawyer , and Commissioner of the Occupied Netherlands , Nuremburg defendant
Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975), Commando lieutenant colonel
Hans and Sophie Scholl (1917-1943), anti-nazis
Richard Sorge (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
Albert Speer (1905-1981), architect and coordinator of war production, Nuremburg defendant
Franz Stangl (1908-1971) a Commandant at Sobibór extermination camp in Poland
Claus von Stauffenberg (1907-1944), Colonel and member of the July Plot
Julius Streicher (1885-1946), founded and edited the anti-Semitic newspaper, "Der Sturmer", Nuremburg defendant
Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909-1944), member of the Kreisau Circle executed for his role in the July 20 Plot to kill Hitler
Ernst Udet , inspector general of the Luftwaffe
Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919-1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Christian Wirth , commander of the Belzec extermination camp
Eamon de Valera (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959), Taoiseach
Leopold Kerney , Minister to Madrid involved in conducting negotiations with Germany over Irish neutrality and possible assistance with recovery of the "lost counties" of Ulster
Vittorio Ambrosio , general
Amadeo of Aosta , Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956), field marshal
Italo Balbo , Governor of Libya
Annibale Bergonzoli , Lieutenant-General at Bardia
Junio Valerio Borghese , Naval lieutenant commander
Francisco Cavalera
Ugo Cavallero , Chief of General Staff
Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944), diplomat
Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947)
Roberto Farinacci , Fascist leader of Cremona
Umberto (1904-1983), Prince of Piedmont - Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom (de facto monarch) from 1943
Maria José , Princess of Piedmont - tried to negotiate separate peace with the United States
Carlo Favagrossa
Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Il Duce
Vittorio Revetra
Achille Starace , Secretary of the Fascist Party
Hatazo Adachi , Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in New Guinea
Korechika Anami , General and Minister of War in the end of the war
Mitsuo Fuchida , commander of Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor
Minory Genda , fighter commander
Haryoshi Hyakutake , lieutenant general in Guadalcanal
Masaharu Homma , general in invasion of the Philippines
Masaki Honda , Lieutenant general in Burma
Koichi Kido , Lord Privy Seal
Mineschi Koga , admiral, successor of Yamamoto
Kuniaki Koiso (1880-1950), lieutenant general
Nabutake Kondo , admiral in Guadalcanal
Fumimaro Konoye (1891-1945), statesman
Tadamichi Kuribayashi , general in the Battle of Iwo Jima
Takeo Kurita , admiral in the Battle of Midway
Hirohito (1901-1989), emperor
Yosuke Matsuoka , Foreign minister
Guinichi Mikawa , Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island
Osami Nagano , Fleet admiral, Chief of the Naval General Staff
Chuichi Nagumo (1886-1944), Admiral
Kichisaburo Nomura , Admiral
Takijiro Onishi , admiral
Hiroo Onoda , (born 1922), post-war straggler
Jisaburo Ozawa , Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile Fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Saburo Sakai , Zero fighter ace
Kazuo Sakamaki , first POW to the Americans
Yoshitsugu Saito , general in Saipan
Mamoru Shigemitsu , Foreign minister
Shigetaro Shimada , Admiral, Minister of the Navy
Hajime Sugiyama , general and Army Chief of Staff
Kantaro Suzuki (1867-1948), prime minister
Raizo Tanaka , Rear Admiral and destroyer commander
Hisaichi Terauchi (1879-1945), Field Marshal and supreme commander of the Japanese Southern Army
Shigenori Togo , Foreign minister
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948), general and military prime minister
Tokyo Rose
Soemu Toyoda , admiral
Yoshijiro Umezu , general
Mitsuru Ushijima , general in the defense of Okinawa
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943), admiral
Tomoyuki Yamashita , lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
Leslie Andrew (1897-1969), Commander the 22nd Battalion of the Second NZEF
Roderick Carr (1891-1971), Air Marshal and Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force
Arthur Coningham (1895-1948), Air Marshal and commander of UK Western Desert Air Force
Peter Fraser (1884-1950), Prime Minister from March 1940
Bernard Freyberg (1889-1963), general and commander of NZ corps
Alfred Hulme (1911-1982), Sergeant awarded Victoria Cross
F. H. Maynard
Sir Keith Park , RAF sector commander during the Battle of Britain
Michael Joseph Savage , (1872-1940), Prime Minister until his death in March 1940
Lloyd Allan Trigg , awarded Victoria Cross on recommendation of German submarine commander
Charles Upham , Army Captain awarded Victoria Cross and bar
Nancy Wake , (born 1912), fought alongside Maquis
Carl Gustav Fleischer , (1883-1942), General, Norwegian commander in Northern Norway 1940
Jens Christian Hauge , head of Milorg
Haakon VII , (1872-1957)
C.J. Hambro , politician
Leif Larsen , (1901-1991), Shetland's Larsen , Naval officer
Martin Linge , commander of SOE Norwegian Independent Company 1
Max Manus , resistance fighter
Vidkun Quisling , (1887-1945), Nazi collaborator
Henry Oliver Rinnan , (1915-1947), double agent for Gestapo
Arvid Storsveen , leader of XU
Gunnar Sřnsteby , resistance fighter
Wladyslaw Anders , lieutenant general and leader of Free Polish army
Mordechaj Anielewicz , (1919-1943), commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization during the Warsaw ghetto uprising
Józef Beck , minister of foreign affairs
Wojciech Jaruzelski , (born 1923), was drafted into Soviet Polish Army
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski , general and leader of Warsaw Uprising
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk , leader of Polish government-in-exile
Edward Rydz-Śmigly , marshal and army commander
Wladyslaw Sikorski , General and head of the Polish government-in-exile
Henryk Sławik , nicknamed "Polish Wallenberg", Polish diplomat who saved 5.000 Jews.
Krystyna Skarbek (1915-1952), highly decorated SOE agent
Karol Józef Wojtyła , Pope John Paul II
Alexei Antonov , Chief of General Staff at the end of the war
I.Kh.Bagramian , (1897-1982)
Lavrenty Beria , (1899-1953), chief of NKVD , head of Soviet atomic bomb project
Semion Mikhailovich Budennyi , (1883-1973)
Nikolay Bulganin , political marshal
Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906- 1945) Youngest Russian Front Commander and Marshal.
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 -1982 ), commanded the 62nd Russian army to victory at the Battle of Stalingrad .
Leonid Govorov , (1897-1955), marshal, liberator of Leningrad
Filipp Golikov , (1900-1980), Commander of the Front
V.N. Gordov , (1896-1950), Commander of the Front
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Kuznetsov , admiral
M.P. Kirponos , (1891-1941), Commander of the Front
D.T. Kozlov , (1903-1970), Commander of the Front
I.S. Konev , (1897-1973), marshal, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front which took Berlin
F.Ya. Kostenko , (1896-1942), Commander of the Front
P.A. Kurochkin , (1900-1989), Commander of the front
F.I. Kuznetsov , (1896-1961), Commander of the Front
Vasili Kuznetsov , general
Maxim Litvinov , People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs before Molotov
Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov
R.Ya. Malinovskiy , (1898-1967), marshal, Commander of the Front
I.I. Maslennikiv , (1900-1954), Commander of the Front
K.S. Melnik , (1900-1971), Commander of the Front
Kirill Meretskov , (1897-1968), marshal, chief commander in Winter War
Vyacheslav Molotov , (1890-1986), People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs
D.K. Pavlov , (1897-1941), Commander of the Western Front, court-martialled on Stalin 's orders, accused of the German army's break through the Soviet front lines, sentenced to death
Ye.I. Petrov , (1896-1958), general of the army, Commander of the Front
Konstantin Rokossovsky , marshal
M.M. Popov , (1902-1969), Commander of the Front
M.A. Purkayev , (1894-1953), Commander of the Front
M.Ya. Reiter , (1896-1950), Commander of the Front
K.K. Rokossovskiy , (1896-1968), Commander of the Front
D.I. Ryabishev , (1894-1985), Commander of the Front
Richard Sorge , (1895-1944), German-born Soviet spy in Japan
Joseph Stalin , (1879-1953)
Semyon Timoshenko , (1895-1970), marshal, Commander of the Front
Andrey Tupolev , (1888-1972), aircraft designer
A.M. Vasilevskiy , (1895-1977), Commander of the Front
Nikolay Vatutin , (1901-1944), general in the relief of Stalingrad
Andrey Vlasov , Lieutenant general in the Red Army , and the commander of the German-backed Russian Liberation Army
Kliment Voroshilov , (1881-1969), Marshal
Andrey Yeremenko , (1892-1970), marshal and front line general in Stalingrad
M.G. Yefremov , (1897-1942), Commander of the Front
Vasily Zaitsev , sniper
G.F. Zakharov , (1897-1957), Commander of the Front
Georgy Zhukov , (1896-1974), marshal and chief of the Red Army
A. V. Alexander , (1885-1965), First Lord of the Admiralty 1940-1045, 1945-1946
Harold Alexander , (1891-1969), Field Marshal
Geoffrey Appleyard , commando major
Clement Attlee , (1883-1967), Deputy Prime Minister
Claude Auchinleck , (1884-1981), Field Marshal
Douglas Bader , (1910-1982), Royal Air Force pilot with no legs
Ralph A. Bagnold , (1896-1990)
Stanley Baldwin , politician and ex-prime minister
Eric Arthur Blair , (George Orwell), (1903-1950) author, journalist, propagandist
Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), (1879-1964), politician and press tycoon
Donald Bennett , Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labor and National Service
Tom Bird , Lieutenant at Tobruk
William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork , Commander of Narvik Expedition
Alan Brooke , (1883-1963), Field Marshal
Frederick Browning , lieutenant general of airborne troops
Maurice Buckmaster , colonel of Special Operations Executive
Adrian Carton De Wiart , General, Norweigan Campaign
Neville Chamberlain , (1869-1940), Prime Minister at the start of the war
Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (1873-1967), Minister for Coordination of Defence 1939-1940
Peter Churchill , SOE agent
Winston Churchill , (1874-1965), First Lord of the Admiralty 1939-1940, Prime Minister 1940-1945
Dudley Clarke , creator of the British Commandos
Victor Crutchley , (1893-1986), admiral
John Cunningham , RAF group captain and night-fighter ace
William Dobbie , governor of Malta
Eric Dorman-Smith
Anthony Eden , (1897-1977), Secretary of State for War 1940, Foreign Secretary 1940-1945
Duke of Windsor , (1894-1972), (formerly Edward VIII)
Princess Elizabeth , (born 1926), (later Queen Elizabeth II)
Queen Elizabeth , (1900-2002), (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), consort of King George VI
Ian Fleming , instigator of the scheme to capture Rudolf Hess
George VI , (1895-1952)
William Gott
Sir P.J. Grigg , (1890-1964), Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office 1939-1942, Secretary of State for War 1942-1945
Rex King-Clark
Arthur Harris , "Bomber", Air Chief Marshall of Bomber Command
B.H. Liddell Hart , (1895-1970), Masterminded modern tank warfare, copied by Germans as Blitzkrieg
Leslie Hore-Belisha , Secretary of State for War 1937-1940
James Johnson , RAF fighter ace
Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes First head of Commandoes
Miles Lampson
John Lapsley
Robert Laycock , General of the "Layforce " of Commandos
Rea Leakey
Christopher Lee , (born 1922), volunteered to fight in the Winter war
Trafford Leigh-Mallory , Air Marshal and fighter commander
Fitzroy Maclean
David Margesson (1890-1965), Secretary of State for War 1940-1942
Leo Marks , (1920-2001)
Eric Maschwitz (1901-1969), patriotic lyricist (A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Frank Merrill , Brigadier general and leader of "Merrill's Marauders "
Spike Milligan , Royal Artillery gunner, musician and comedian
Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), Field Marshal
Oswald Mosley (1896-1980), British fascist leader
Louis Mountbatten , (1900-1979), Vice-admiral
Airey Neave (1916-1979)
Richard O'Connor
Charles Portal , Chief of Air Staff
Dudley Pound , Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
Dan Ranfurly
Odette Sansom (1912-1995), SOE agent
Sir Archibald Sinclair , (1890-1970), Liberal leader, Secretary of State for Air 1940-1945
William Slim , general in Burmese front
Oliver Stanley , (1896-1950), Secretary of State for War 1940
David Stirling , (1915-1990), commando colonel and founder of Special Air Service
Alan Turing , (1912-1954), cryptographer
Susan Travers , (born 1909), French Foreign Legion member
Barnes Wallis , (1887-1979)
Archibald Wavell , field marshal
Henry Maitland Wilson , (1881-1964), field marshal
Orde Wingate , major general and founder of Chindits
Edward Yeo-Thomas , (1901-1964), SOE agent
Henry Arnold , (1886-1950), USAAF general
Donald Blakeslee , fighter ace
Richard Bong , (1920-1945), USAAF fighter ace
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington , (1912-1988), USMC aviator
Omar Bradley , (1893-1981), general
Lewis Hyde Brereton , Major general
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. , infantry general in the Aleutian Islands
Arleigh Burke , (1901-1996), US Navy commander
George H. W. Bush , (born 1924), US Navy pilot
Prescott Bush , (1895-1972), financier
Claire Chennault , (1893-1958), USAAF major general and organizer of Flying Tigers
Mark W. Clark , (1896-1984) US Army general
Clarence Craft
William O. Darby
William Joseph Donovan , head of Office of Strategic Services
James Doolittle , (1896-1993), lieutenant general
Albert Einstein , (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
Dwight D. Eisenhower , (1890-1969)
Bonner Fellers
James Forrestal , (1892-1949), secretary of the Navy
William Frederick Friedman , (1891-1969), US cryptographer
Varian Fry (1907-1967) ran escape scheme in wartime France that helped approximately 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to flee
George H. Gay , (1917-1994), US Navy pilot
Roy Geiger , marine commando general
Leslie Groves , (1896-1970), general and supervisor of Manhattan Project
William Halsey , (1882-1959), vice-admiral in Pacific
William Averell Harriman , US ambassador to Moscow
Ira Hayes , (1923-1955)
Courtney Hodges
William Joyce , (1906-1946), "lord Haw-Haw"
George Kenney , Army Air Force General
Frank Knox , (1874-1944), Secretary of the Navy 1940-1944
Lyman Lemnitzer , (1899-1988), General
Douglas MacArthur , (1880-1964), General
George Marshall , (1880-1959)
Bill Mauldin , (1921-2003)
Audie Murphy , America's most decorated soldier
Chester Nimitz , (1885-1966), Admiral
Robert Oppenheimer , (1904-1967), physicist in Manhattan Project
Matthew Bunker Ridgway , (1895-1993), general
George Patton , (1885-1945), tank general
Ernest Pyle , (1900-1945), war correspondent
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , (1882-1945), President of the United States until his death in April 1945
Charles Ryder
Carl Spaatz (1891-1974), Army Air Force General
Joseph Stilwell , General and Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff
John S. Thach (1905-1981), naval aviator and ace, inventor of Thach Weave aerial combat tactic
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President of the United States from April 1945
Lucian Truscott
Jonathan Wainwright (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
Fred Walker
Walton Walker , commander
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