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WW2 Commanders Ultimate

Let's test your knowledge of WW2 Commanders with this quiz! How much do you really know...
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Last updated: July 28, 2022
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American General who fought in Burma and China
Joseph Stilwell
The French Army Commander-in-Chief from 10 February 1931 to 20 May 1940
Maurice Gamelin
Commanded the American II Corps in Operation Husky
Omar Bradley
The Desert Fox
Erwin Rommel
Was the youngest French General from May to June 1940
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
The Commander of ABDACOM
Archibald Wavell
Commander of the 62nd army at the Battle of Stalingrad
Vasily Chuikov
Led the Japanese attack on Singapore
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Was the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbour
Isoroku Yamamoto
The Commander of the US Pacific Fleet
Chester William Nimitz
American Field Marshall of the Philippine Army
Douglas MacArthur
The French General who led the Armistice between France and Germany in 1940
Charles Huntziger
The Russian General who famously said "Two breakthroughs, comrade Stalin, two breakthroughs"
Konstantin Rokossovsky
The Commander-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command
Hugh Dowding
Italian General who fought at the Mareth Line
Giovanni Messe
Commander-in-Chief of the Greek army
Alexandros Papagos
Romanian General who led the Romanian 3rd Army into Russia
Petre Dumitrescu
Supreme Commander of the Kriegsmarine after 1943
Karl Donitz
Former Supreme Commander of the Kriegsmarine before being replaced by the above
Erich Johann Albert Raeder
Russian Commander of the Steppe Front during the Battle of Kursk
Ivan Konev
Commander-in-Chief of all Polish forces after 1 September 1929
Edward Rydz-Smigly
Inspector General of Armoured Troops of the German Army after March 1943
Heinz Guderian
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Commander of the Seventh United States Army in Operation Husky
George Smith Patton Jr
Japanese Commander during the Battle of Iwo Jima
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Led the northern German attack at the Battle of Kursk
Walter Model
Led the Hundred Regiments Offensive
Peng De Huai
Resigned after Italy's poor performance in the Invasion of Greece
Pietro Badoglio
Soviet General who personally accepted the German Instrument of Surrender in Berlin
Georgy Zhukov
Finnish General who had a defensive line named after him
Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim
Smiling Albert
Albert Kesselring
Commander of German Army Group South during Operation Citadel
Erich von Manstein
Japanese Admiral who led the attack on Pearl Harbour
Chuichi Nagumo
Commander-in-Chief of USSR forces in the Far East and organised the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation against the Japanese
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia on USS Missouri
Thomas Blamey
French Admiral who was assassinated in December 1942
Francois Darlan
Took control of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk
Nikolai Vatutin
Dutch General who was the commander of ABDACOM land forces
Hein ter Poorten
Commander-in-Chief of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
The last British soldier to leave Dunkirk
Harold Alexander
American General who led the triumphal entry into Rome and ordered Monte Cassino destroyed.
Mark Wayne Clark
Commanded the Australian Navy at the Battle of the Coral Sea
John Gregory Crace
Commanded the airborne forces in the Invasion of Crete
Karl Student
Chief of the OKW (German High Command of the Armed Forces). Sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials
Wilhelm Keitel
British General who planned Operation Market Garden
Bernard Montgomery
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