Famous World War II Figures

• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy'

  The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep

• Bradley, Omar

  American general during World War II

• Braun, Eva

  Mistress and last-minute wife of Adolf Hitler

• Chiang Kai-shek

  Leader of The Republic of China (Taiwan), 1949-75

• Churchill, Winston

  Indefatigable prime minister of Britain during World War II

• De Gaulle, Charles

  President of France, 1958-69

• Doolittle, James Harold

  Leader of the bomber attack on Tokyo in 1942

• Eisenhower, Dwight

  Supreme commander of Allied forces in WWII

• Goebbels, Joseph

   Adolf Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, 1933-45

• Göring, Hermann

  Commander of the Nazi Luftwaffe in World War II

• Himmler, Heinrich

  Hitler's head of the Gestapo during World War II

• Hitler, Adolf

  The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II

• Lim Bo Seng

  Patriotic WWII hero of Singapore

• MacArthur, Douglas

  The American general who said "I shall return"

• Marshall, George C.

  World War II-era U.S. General and Secretary of State

• Miller, Doris "Dorie"

  African-American naval hero of Pearl Harbor

• Montgomery, Bernard Law

  The Brit who beat Rommel in North Africa

• Murphy, Audie

  The most-decorated American soldier of World War II

• Mussolini, Benito

  Italy's dictator during World War II

• Nimitz, Chester W.

  Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II

• Patton, George S.

  Commander of the U.S. Third Army in World War II

• Pétain, Henri Philippe

  He sold out France to the Nazis

• Riefenstahl, Leni

  Filmmaker who documented Hitler's Germany

• Rommel, Erwin

  "The Desert Fox" of World War II

• Roosevelt, Franklin

  The president who led the U.S. through World War II

• Russell, Harold

  The disabled vet in The Best Years of Our Lives

• Stalin, Joseph

  The dictatorial leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1928 to 1953

• Stauffenberg, Claus von

  The German colonel who almost killed Hitler

• Tojo, Hideki

  Japanese Prime Minister during World War II

• Yamamoto, Isoroku

  Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

• Zhukov, Georgi K.

  World War II Russian Army commander

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