WW2 - Important People

James Doolittle

A Reserve officer in the United States Army Air Corps, awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid

Bernard Montgomery

British field marshal and one of the outstanding Allied commanders in World War II.

Albert Einstein

Helped to make an atomic bomb with Roosevelt for the war

Enola Gay

a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber

Yamamoto Isoroku

a Japanese Marshal Admiral and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet

Douglas MacArthur

an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army

George Marshall

an American statesman and soldier, famous for his leadership roles during World War II

Adolf Hitler

an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was effectively dictator of Nazi Germany, and was at the centre of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust.

Hideki Tojo

approved the attack on Pearl Harbor and was responsible for all aspects of the war effort

Erwin Rommel

as the Desert Fox was a German Generalfeldmarschall of World War II.

George S. Patton

commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

Enrico Fermi

created the world's first nuclear reactor

Omar N. Bradley

distinguished service in North Africa and Western Europe during World War II

J. Robert Oppenheimer

the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the Manhattan Project

Dwight D. Eisenhower

the 34th President of the United States, was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.

Benito Mussolini

the fascist prime minister of Italy