WW2 Commanders Ultimate

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American General who fought in Burma and China	Joseph Stilwell
The French Army Commander-in-Chief from 10 February 1931 to 20 May 1940	Maurice Gamelin
Commanded the American II Corps in Operation Husky	Omar Bradley
The Desert Fox	Erwin Rommel
Was the youngest French General from May to June 1940	Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The Commander of ABDACOM	Archibald Wavell
Commander of the 62nd army at the Battle of Stalingrad	Vasily Chuikov
Led the Japanese attack on Singapore	Tomoyuki Yamashita
Was the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbour	Isoroku Yamamoto
The Commander of the US Pacific Fleet	Chester William Nimitz
American Field Marshall of the Philippine Army	Douglas MacArthur
The French General who led the Armistice between France and Germany in 1940	Charles Huntziger
The Russian General who famously said "Two breakthroughs, comrade Stalin, two breakthroughs"	Konstantin Rokossovsky
The Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command	Hugh Dowding
Italian General who fought at the Mareth Line	Giovanni Messe
Commander-in-Chief of the Greek army	Alexandros Papagos
Romanian General who led the Romanian 3rd Army into Russia	Petre Dumitrescu
Supreme Commander of the Kriegsmarine after 1943	Karl Donitz
Former Supreme Commander of the Kriegsmarine before being replaced by the above	Erich Johann Albert Raeder
Russian Commander of the Steppe Front during the Battle of Kursk	Ivan Konev
Commander-in-Chief of all Polish forces after 1 September 1929	Edward Rydz-Smigly
Inspector General of Armoured Troops of the German Army after March 1943	Heinz Guderian

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Commander of the Seventh United States Army in Operation Husky	George Smith Patton Jr
Japanese Commander during the Battle of Iwo Jima	Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Led the northern German attack at the Battle of Kursk	Walter Model
Led the Hundred Regiments Offensive	Peng De Huai
Resigned after Italy's poor performance in the Invasion of Greece	Pietro Badoglio
Soviet General who personally accepted the German Instrument of Surrender in Berlin	Georgy Zhukov
Finnish General who had a defensive line named after him	Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim
Smiling Albert	Albert Kesselring
Commander of German Army Group South during Operation Citadel	Erich von Manstein
Japanese Admiral who led the attack on Pearl Harbour	Chuichi Nagumo
Commander-in-Chief of USSR forces in the Far East and organised the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation against the Japanese	Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia on USS Missouri	Thomas Blamey
French Admiral who was assassinated in December 1942	Francois Darlan
Took control of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk	Nikolai Vatutin
Dutch General who was the commander of ABDACOM land forces	Hein ter Poorten
Commander-in-Chief of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia	Josip Broz Tito
The last British soldier to leave Dunkirk	Harold Alexander
American General who led the triumphal entry into Rome and ordered Monte Cassino destroyed.	Mark Wayne Clark
Commanded the Australian Navy at the Battle of the Coral Sea	John Gregory Crace
Commanded the airborne forces in the Invasion of Crete	Karl Student
Chief of the OKW (German High Command of the Armed Forces). Sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials	Wilhelm Keitel
British General who planned Operation Market Garden	Bernard Montgomery