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Born January 23, 1921 • New Bedford • Massachusetts
Died October 12, 2008 (aged 87) • Montreal • Canada
Role In Korean War • Normandy Invasion • World War II
(Left) Henry Crerar, commander of the First Canadian Army, and (right) Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, World War II.
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar
Canadian general
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
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James Alward Van Fleet
United States military commander
Maxwell Taylor, 1962.
Maxwell Davenport Taylor
American military officer
Matthew B. Ridgway, 1951.
Matthew Bunker Ridgway
United States general
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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
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John Clifford Hodges Lee
United States Army officer
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg
German military officer
Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery
British military commander
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley
American military officer
World War II: liberation of Paris
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc
French general
Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.
Miles Christopher Dempsey
British general
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan
British officer
Salmuth, Hans von
Hans von Salmuth
German military officer
Dollmann, Friedrich
Friedrich Dollmann
German officer
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Richard Nelson Gale
British army officer
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British commander of Allied air forces used in the Normandy Invasion.
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
British air marshal
Forecasting D-Day
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Sperrle, Hugo
Hugo Sperrle
German military officer

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