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MILITARY COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II

MILITARY COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II. ALLIED AND AXIS. LAST BRITISH SOLDIER TO LEAVE THE SHORES OF DUNKIRK Commander in Chief Middle East. Was the overseer of the allied victory at El Alamein Eisenhower wanted him to command D-Day. Major General Harold Alexander British Expeditionary Force.

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MILITARY COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II

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  1. MILITARY COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II ALLIED AND AXIS

  2. LAST BRITISH SOLDIER TO LEAVE THE SHORES OF DUNKIRK Commander in Chief Middle East Was the overseer of the allied victory at El Alamein Eisenhower wanted him to command D-Day. Major General Harold AlexanderBritish Expeditionary Force

  3. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr (US) • His father was Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, SR. • He had surrendered to Grant in the Civil war • He was a HUGE RACIST • Alaskan Campaign • Commanded10th Army • Okinawa • Highest ranking American to have been killed during the War

  4. Hermann Goering • Top Nazi, a political mass-murderer • Hitler's deputy • Goering the highest military rank of Reichsmarshal • Signed the Nazi plan for "The final solution of the Jewish problem

  5. Studied English in Harvard University Planned Pearl Harbor Yamamoto lost in the Battle of Midway Dies in plane crash Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

  6. "The most dangerous man in Europe" Hitler's commando leader SS Special Unit Friedenthal Operation Greif (Griffin) Otto Skorzeny

  7. Deputy Commander for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa Clark was the youngest officer to become Lt. General in 1943 December 1944 he assumed command of the 15th and British and US Armies, putting him in command of all ground troops in Italy General Mark Wayne Clark

  8. Supreme Commander of Allied Forces In Europe Given Rank General of the Army Although he had never seen action himself, he won the respect of front-line commanders General Dwight D. Eisenhower

  9. XIX Army Corps Panzergruppe Guderian during Barbarossa Chief of OKH Hitler dismissed him on 28 March 1945 Heinz Guderian“Hurrying Heinz”

  10. Pioneered the “Blitzkrieg” concept • Took Poland 1940 • Very successful in France • Captured 600,000 Soviet Troops • Abilities crushed by Hilter

  11. Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific “I shall Return” Oversaw Invasion forces of Philippines “Island Hopping” Not a good Politician. Accepted Japanese Surrender Douglas MacArthur

  12. British Expeditionary Force Commanded 8th Army in North Africa against Rommell Victory at El Alamein Butted heads with American Commanders during Invasion of Sicily and Italy Commander at D-Day Bernard Law “Monty” Montgomery

  13. Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces Carried out the Island Hopping campaign that leads through Iwo and Saipan and eventually on to Japan Drank A LOT Chester Nimitz

  14. Commaned Admiral William “Bull” Halsey and the Marine known as “Howlin Mad” Holland Smith • Started as a Submariner • Won nearly every engagements he was involved in

  15. Hard Core and Cruel Lucky and Skilled Great Leader and teacher Defeated Japanese in only Real attempt on USSR Saved Leningrad, Stalingrad Drafted women and children to save Moscow Was 1st to reach Berlin Georgi Zhukov

  16. Humorless, Cold , and Formal He transformed the US Army from and force of 200,000 to 2 million Formulated assault on France Finest Soldier I have ever known Stimson, SOW George C. Marshall

  17. Konstantin RokossovskyUSSR • He was the Hero of Stalingrad • Crushed the 6th German Army • Commander at KURSK • Finest General in the Red Army

  18. Most Repsected of the German Officers Clear and Calculating Altered Hilter’s plans for invasion of France by going through the Ardennes Frederich Erich Von Manstien

  19. Most successful as a tank commander • Only German to achieve a major victory against the Soviets • Taking the Black Sea Peninsula • Credited with Last German victory of the war at Kharkov Rail station

  20. Flamboyant and charismatic Believer in Destiny Unloved but respected Took Casablanca in 42’ North Africa with 3rd Armored Sicily Trouble A TRUE WARRIOR Headed 3rd in Ardennes at Battle of Bulge Most successful in territory 1000 miles in less than a year George S. Patton

  21. Bertram Ramsay • Evacuated Dunkirk • Transports of US troops to the war • In charge of naval Operations for OVERLORD (Operation Neptune) • 4000 ships • Delivered 5 divisions to the shores of Normandy

  22. “Desert Fox” Faster than any before in France Afrika Corps Captured Tobruk Defeated at 2nd El Alamein Great????? Failed at Normandy Suicided for Plot against Hitler Irwin Rommel

  23. Wilhelm Keitel • Appointed Chief of Staff of German High Command & in charge of all military strategy • Nazi PYSCHO • “ANY ACT OF MERCY IS A CRAIME AGAINST GERMANY”

  24. Friedrich Paulus • Commander of the German Sixth Army in January 1942 and led the drive on Stalingrad. • Russian-sponsored National Committee for a Free Germany

  25. Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff. Almost defeated British at BOB Commanded German Forces in all of Italy “Soft Underbelly” 20 months Germany as Commander in Chief West in March 1945 Albert Kesselring

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