Some well known ww2 generals are listed here:
American:General MacArthur,Patton,Eisenhower,Marshall,and Bradley.
British:General Montgomery,Alexander,and Brooke.
French:General De Gaulle,and De Tassingy.
Soviet Union:General Zhukov,and Rokossovsky.
Australia:General Blamey,and White.
Canada:General Simonds,and Crerar.
Germany:General Himmler,Keitel,Rommel,Manstein,and Jodl.
Italy:General Badogilo,Cavallero,and Messe.
Japan:General Tojo,Hata,Yamashita,and Sugiyama.
Actually there were twelve Presidents of the United States who were generals...
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme allied commander in World War II and deserves much of the credit for winning the war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, who later became the 34th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961, was a 5-Star General of the Army during World War II.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the US President who was first a supreme commander of allied forces in WW II.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the supreme Allied commander in Europe at the end of WW II. His fame and success as a war hero led to his election as President.
I think it may have been Jimmy Doolittle. It was General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold.
The Union forces are considered to have won the Battle of Shiloh, although it was not the type of victory any army wants. General Grant and his army were surprised by the Confederate army under General Albert Sydney Johnston and after the first day the Union army was pushed back over a mile to the river when fighting was over for the day. General Johnston had been killed in battle that first day. During the night another Union army Under General Don Carlos Buell arrived at the scene. The combined armies then attacked the regrouping Confederate army and was able to force it to retreat. Th Union army had been totally surprised by the attack and had about 14,000 casualties but it held the ground. The Confederate army managed almost total surprise, but did not achieve its objective of driving the Union army out of the area and lost about 10,000 casualties.
General Ulysses S. Grant was in command of the Union troops that formally accepted the surrender of the Confederate army. General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Omar Bradley, Five star general; General of the Army, which is the highest Army rank in the US Army. George W. Bush, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces George Washington and General John "Blackjack" Pershing were named as the only Six star generals in U.S. History. This title is "General of the Armies of the United States." There are only a small number of five stars (General of War). The only person to ever receive this rank twice was Air Force General Henry "Hap" Arnold. Omar Bradley was the last living individual to hold the five star rank until his death in 1981. Overall the rank of 5 Star has been held by Four Army Generals, Four Navy Admirals, and the aforementioned Hap Arnold.
Through a lucky chance - the Confederate General Beauregard decided to call a halt on the first evening. If he had pressed on, Grant's army would have been pushed into the Tennessee River.
Dwight D. Eisenhower had been a five-star general, a rank that did not exist in the US army until midway in WW2. No general has been elected since his time.
I think it may have been Jimmy Doolittle. It was General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold.
The current commander of the Third United States Army is Lieutenant General James L. Terry. He's been on the military service since 1978.
General George B. McClellan was a superb organizer, transformed inexperienced recruits into an army of trained soldiers prepared for battle. He has been criticized as a poor field general, by many historians and during the war, President Lincoln also believed the same thing.
No. George Washington was, as the first US president in 1789. Washington had previously been the "commander" and "general-in-chief" of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783 during the American Revolution.
Confederate General Joseph Johnston had been the Army's Quartermaster General before the US Civil War. When Johnston joined the Confederacy, he was replaced by Montgomery Meigs.Both men were West Point graduates.
Following the Battle of Buena Vista, President Polk wanted General Zachary Taylor to move south and conquer Mexico City. However, it was almost impossible to supply General Taylor's army in such an endeavor. The supply lines would have been too long.
In late June of 1863, President Lincoln became dissatisfied with General Hooker's plans to challenge General Robert E. Lee's advance into Pennsylvania. He relieved Hooker and took the advice of General in Chief Halleck's advice to replace Hooker with Major General George G. Meade. Meade had been a corps commander with the Army of the Potomac.
Three, Major General James Franklin Bell, Major General Leonard Wood and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
After Antietam (Sept 17, 1862) when McClellan once again believed he needed time for his troops to rest. President Lincoln replaced him (on Nov 7) with General Ambrose Burnside. That was the end of McClellan's service as a Union military leader. As an aside, General Burnside felt uncomfortable replacing George B. McClellan. He had been loyal to him, also, he was not sure the command of the Army of the Potomac would be a fit for his abilities.
What President Lincoln failed to properly understand about modern day warfare in his time was the ability of even a badly defeated army to maneuver its way into a retreat that prevented the enemy to destroy the opposing army. Having never been a general, he was consistently badgering McClellan and Meade for not conducting a vigorous follow up and destroying Lee's army. If Lincoln had been a general, he would have experienced at first hand the condition of his troops and what were the odds of a successful pursuit.
The Confederates did not have anyone in the job of General-in-Chief until they created that post, in some desperation, in January 1865. By then, the only choice was Lee himself. Before that, Lee had been reporting to his President, Jefferson Davis, an ex-Army man who had hoped for senor command in the war, but had been 'kicked upstairs' to President. For most of the war, he tried to fulfil the role of General-in-Chief, but was badly out of his depth.