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William Pinckney

William Pinckney was born in South Carolina as the child of Renty and Jenny Pinckney on the 27th April 1915. ...

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Butch O'Hare

Edward "Butch" O'Hare was the Navy's first flying ace, a World War II hero whose name would have been commonly ...

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Doris Miller

On December 7, 1941, America was drawn into World War II when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. That morning ...

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Leonard Roy Harmon

Youth Roy Leonard Harmon was born on 21 January 1917 in Cuero, Texas. He was the son of Cornelius and ...

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Clarence Huebner

Introduction Mayor-General Clarence Huebner is predominantly famous for the fact he commanded the 1st Infantry Division during the Omaha Beach landings ...

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Benjamin Hayes Vandervoort

Colonel Benjamin Hayes 'Vandy' Vandervoort became known to the general public by John Wayne's portrayal in the film classic The ...

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Douglas MacArthur

Few American commanders evoke so much controversy as Douglas MacArthur. One person calls him ‘the greatest general of all time’, ...

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Semyon M. Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was born April 25 1883 in a small Cossack village in the vicinity of Kuban in the ...

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Mikhail P. Kirponos

Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos was born January 9, 1882, in Vertiyevka Chernigovskoi, a small village in the countryside in the Shumeikskogo ...

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Ivan S. Konev

Ivan Stepanovich Konev was born December 28, 1897 in Lodeino, the son of an agricultural worker who was also engaged ...

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin is undoubtedly one of the most spoken of statesmen of the 20th century. His successor Chrushev said after ...

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Semyon K. Timoshenko

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was born on February 18th, 1895 in Furmanka (Bessarabia, the present Moldavia). As a child he worked ...

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Kliment Y. Voroshilov,

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov was born February 4th, 1881 in Verhneye in what is now the Ukraine. His father was a ...

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Georgi K. Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was born December 1st, 1896 in Obinskoye in the vicinity of Kaluga. He grew up in bitter ...

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Aleksey I. Antonov

Introduction Aleksey Antonov is not among to the best known Soviet generals but experts consider him one of the most highly ...

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