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RE: RE:
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:34 am
by Robert J. Smead
Sir Alanbrooke and Alexander: Well balanced in most areas
Sir John Dill: He made the US-UK Alliance work; no battlefield glorie, yet an incredible strategic impact.
RE: RE:
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:38 am
by Robert J. Smead
I forgot to mention :
Orde Wingate: Special Ops en mass.
Creighton Abrams; We did not name that tank after General MacArthur!!!
RE: RE:
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:06 pm
by Svennemir
Ehrm, Vlasov fought for the Germans!
(Just thought this piece of information was missing.)
RE: RE:
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:31 pm
by JJKettunen
ORIGINAL: Svennemir
Ehrm, Vlasov fought for the Germans!
(Just thought this piece of information was missing.)
Well, Maciste pointed out that he was captured...
RE: RE:
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 4:55 pm
by New York Jets
Ernest J King.
Master of Strategic Ops. Land, Sea, and Air.
RE: RE:
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:43 pm
by Maciste
ORIGINAL: Svennemir
Ehrm, Vlasov fought for the Germans!
(Just thought this piece of information was missing.)
And he was captured because he was not allowed by the STAVKA to retreat, but he was one of the few Soviet commanders who counterstroke with effectiveness the german attack (nos as Budionny, for example)
RE: RE:
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:30 pm
by hellcat
for sheer achievement Guderain
RE: RE:
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:10 pm
by vahauser
It's really pretty easy to pick the great military minds of WW2. Basically, who did their nation turn to most often when the going got really tough?
Soviets: Zhukov, hands down. The only man who could stand up to Stalin and live, and was always sent to where the fighting was toughest. His plans stymied the Axis time and time again. He might have been the greatest of all nations' military minds.
Germans: Manstein and Guderian, with honorable mention to Kesselring and Rommel. All were superb military minds.
Americans: Patton and Nimitz and Le May. All were very formidable military minds.
Japanese: Yamamoto. By far the best the Japanese had.
Other Nations: Nobody on the level of the men listed above.
RE: RE:
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:44 pm
by John David
Patton.
Rommel.
Guderain .
Nimitz.
Alexander.
Patton![&o]
What again?
Yeah! So sue me!!
JD
RE: RE:
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 8:36 am
by Marek Tucan
ORIGINAL: Chris Trog
Ernest J King.
Master of Strategic Ops. Land, Sea, and Air.
And what about US anti-sub warfare in the outbreak of the war? I won't call it good and King had a strong role in that AFAIK
RE: RE:
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:58 pm
by Wuotan
Great names in high ranks. So i vote for Jochen Peiper. In my opinion he was the personalized soldier.
Greetings!
RE: RE:
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:28 pm
by plloyd
Hermann Balck, commander of the 11th Panzer (Ghost division during Stalingrad)
Hugh Dowding, air marshall for fighter command during the Battle of Britain.
Archibald Wavell, commander of the Med Theatre in 1940 to early '41. Gave Britain her only successes dispite almost no support, impossible commitments and Churchill's meddling.
And about 5-10 others you probably never heard of.
RE: Greatest Military Mind(s) of WWII?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:07 pm
by terje439
Rommel - also a strategist as his India plans show
Guderian - what would armored warfair be without him??
Mannstein - possibly THE best
Zhukov - Stalin's firefighter
Kesselring - did a great job in the late years
Model - twarted Montgomerys Market Garden
Montgomery - not sure if he belongs here, but worth mentioning
Patton - a good general, probably the best allied general of the war
Hoth - in Hitler's own word, a lion in defense
Mannerheim - holding out against the russian bear for that long is worth something
MacArthur - not the best, but not too shabby
well I could go on forever, but will stop now. Rommel and Mannstein are my favorites, but a hard call.
RE: Greatest Military Mind(s) of WWII?
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:54 pm
by Tequila
Mannstein
Rommel
Zhukov
Chuikov
Koniev
Vatutin