Sister thread to the one on WWI which recently got bumped. Obviously 99% of people will immediately name Hitler as a person associated with WWII, so Adolf’s off the table. What’s the next name that comes to mind?
I thought of Zhukov just because I’ve been reading a lot about the Eastern Front (or Great Patriotic War, tovarish), what’s the name that springs to mind for you?
Winston Churchill.
Mussolini.
Patton
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Churchill
Lord Mountbatten
Churchill, Stalin, FDR, Hirohito, Mussolini, Pétain, MacArthur, Goering, Goebbels. For some reason Yamamoto makes the cut as well.
From an Australian perspectlve, John Curtin.
Raoul Wallenberg
Time for the infamous tinfoil hat theory regarding the WWII leaders’ names:
Churchill
Hitler
Roosevelt
Il Duce
Stalin
Tojo
Spooky, no? :rolleyes:
Himmler had something similar.
The very first name that came to mind was Yamamoto.
That is spooky…
Stalin
Hitler
Il Duce
Tojo
Eisenhower
Quick off the top of my head… Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, FDR, Charles deGaul, Gen. Patton, Gen. Tojo, Emperor Hirohito, Vidkun Quisling, Irwin Rommel, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler…
Churchill (I’m English.)
“We shall fight on the beaches…”
You said “a” figure, and he was the first one that popped in my head, so I’m going with this.
Also, thanks for posting before me. I don’t know how to spell this and I’m lazy and didn’t want to look it up
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Tojo
My father (OK, you’ve never heard of him, but he was a big influence on me.)
Neville Chamberlain
I searched my brain hole and came up with FDR.
No love for the generals/admirals outside of the high commanders/flamboyant ones?
There’s:
Omar Bradley
Ernest King
Chester Nimitz
William Halsey
George Marshall
Hap Arnold
Marc Mitscher
Raymond Spruance
Husband Kimmel
Erwin Rommel
Gerd von Rundstedt
Friedrich Paulus
Andrei Yeremenko
Vasily Chuikov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Bertram Ramsay
William Slim
Red Mike Edson
Holland Smith
Alexander Vandegrift
Carl Spaatz
Ira Eaker
Curtis LeMay
Churchill was the one I instantly thought of. I’m American, I wonder if the responses differ by country.