| Michail Katukov (1900–1976), served as a commander of armoured troops in the Red Army during World War II. One of the most talented Soviet armour commanders. Commaneded 1st Guards Tank Army during the Battle of Kursk, Operation Bagration, the Vistula Oder Operation, and the Battle of Berlin.
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George Smith Patton (1885–1945), leading U.S. Army general in World War II. Advocate of armored warfare and commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. Many have viewed Patton as a pure and ferocious warrior, known by the nickname "Old Blood and Guts" |
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| Josef "Sepp" Dietrich also known as Ujac (1892–1966), German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Hitler, commanded the I.SS-Panzerkorps in the battle of Normandy and commanded the 6.SS-Panzer-Armee in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 |
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Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), field marshal of the German Army during World War II. One of Germany's more competent generals. Commander of Army Group South, where he led 52 infantry divisions and five panzer divisions into the Soviet Union |
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| Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French military leader and statesman. Leader of Free French government-in-exile and an anti-Nazi guerrilla leader |
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Josef Stalin (1878–1953), Leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953; General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| Vasily Chuikov (1900-1982), lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. In May 1942 he was recalled to take up command of the 62nd Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, for its actions there 62nd Army promoted into the Soviet 8th Guards Army |
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Omar Bradley (1893–1981), one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during the World War II and a General of the Army of the United States Army. He was the last surviving five star officer of the United States |
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| Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957), German general, later promoted to field marshal, during World War II. He became commander of the German Sixth Army in January 1942 and led the drive on Stalingrad.
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Mark Clark (1896–1984), American general. the Deputy Commander for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, the youngest officer to become Lt. General in 1943, and was given command of the US 5th Army |
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| Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower (1890–1969), Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45 |
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