World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
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Dmitry Yazov
Former Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
Carwood Lipton
Commissioned officer
Edward Heffron
Journalist
Ronald Speirs
Officer
Lynn Compton
American jurist
Richard Winters
Officer
Herbert Sobel
Commissioned officer
Lewis Nixon III
Officer
Gerry Fitt
Politician
Yang Kyoungjong
Soldier
Alvin York
Soldier
Hiroo Onoda
Japanese officer
Wilhelm Adam
German military officer
Karl Strecker
General
Raymond A. Spruance
Former United States Ambassador to the Philippines
William Halsey Jr.
American admiral
Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral
Chūichi Nagumo
Admiral
Robert Leckie
Author
Courtney Hodges
Senior officer
Roy Farran
Soldier
Edwin Bramall
Baron Bramall
Joe E. Mann
Soldier
Harrison C. Summers
Soldier
Leif J. Sverdrup
American civil engineer
Peter Danckwerts
Chemical engineer
Daniel Inouye
Former President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Prem Tinsulanonda
Former Regent of Thailand
Edwin A. Doss
American fighter pilot
John Henry Balch
Commanding officer
Heinz Kessler
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte
German general
Clay Shaw
Former United States Representative
Edwin Walker
General
Kanji Ishiwara
Military personnel
Seishirō Itagaki
Former Minister of War of the Japanese Empire
Hasso von Manteuffel
General
Ferdinand Schörner
German commander
Ludwig Crüwell
German general
Paul B. Johnson Jr.
American attorney
Maxime Weygand
Former Chief of Staff of the French Army
William Winter
Former Governor of Mississippi
Wilbur Bestwick
Military personnel
Vasily Zaytsev
Sniper
Giuseppe Bottai
Former Minister of National Education of Italy
Italo Balbo
Former Italian Minister of the Air Force
Emilio De Bono
Former Minister of the Colonies of Italy
