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Favorite Commander of WWII?

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  1. Friedrich

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    Good to have this old thread livened-up again! ;)

    Welcome aboard, Fenrir! Hope you like it in here! ;)
     
    Friedrich, Dec 15, 2003
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  2. KnightMove

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    And Hausser is definitely a good choice. There were not many SS officers to definitely counteract a stupid Führerbefehl.
     
    KnightMove, Dec 15, 2003
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  3. Colin

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    My favorite will always be Eisenhower. He was a hell of a leader and will always be the best.
     
    Colin, Dec 19, 2003
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  4. Feldmarschall GAG

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    GOD DAM, there are lots, von Kluge, von Bock, von Manstein, Guderian. But oubviosly, ROMMEL is the greatest of all
     
    Feldmarschall GAG, Dec 22, 2003
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  5. Colin

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    You're right. Rommel was a very good commander.
     
    Colin, Dec 22, 2003
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  6. Friedrich

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    A VERY good field commander at divisional and corps level, an awesome tactician but nothing more! He cannot be considered the greatest at all.

    But, it's favourite commanders thread, so it's OK. :D ;)
     
    Friedrich, Dec 23, 2003
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  7. cristi

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    The best commanders of german army :
    Brauchitsch
    Rundstedt
    Kluge

    Great victories with this commanders!
     
    cristi, Jan 11, 2004
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  8. AndyW

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    And even greater defeats.

    Cheers,
     
    AndyW, Jan 12, 2004
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  9. cristi

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    yes andyw you are right
    Tell me a commander that in his career it was never defeat ?
     
    cristi, Jan 13, 2004
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  10. T. A. Gardner

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    My personal favorite is Rear Admiral (then Captain) Edward Ellsburg. Of course, you probably never heard of him. He was an expert in naval engineering and salvage. Inventor of the underwater cutting torch and underwater welding among other things.
    During the war he was the salvage expert called in to restore Massawa Harbor in Eritrea after the Italians surrendered in Eithopia. Later, he recognized that the British Royal Engineers plans for moving the Mulberry harbors to Normandy wouldn't work and helped resolve the problem (this one went as high as King George and Churchill to get fixed).
    His books like "Under the Red Sea Sun" and "The Far Shore" are good reads too.
     
    T. A. Gardner, Jan 13, 2004
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  11. Gaucho

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    Heinz Guderian.
    I'm reading "Berlim: The Final Battle" and found one thing that I didn't know: how 'crazy' - let me say this - was Guderian when he faced, screamed at Hitler! And he was 99% of the times right...
    So, not only the fact of being a master in conducting the Pazers, but the way he litteraly challenged Hitler's orders. And Hitler did respect him a lot...
     
    Gaucho, Jan 15, 2004
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  12. cristi

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    More than that
    Hitler took Guderian ideas an said that he came with the ideas.
    After Moscow failure, Guderian was release from command large troups, after he retreat his panzers.
    Sorry about my english
     
    cristi, Jan 16, 2004
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  13. R Leonard

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    Oh, let’s see . . . not necessarily in order of favor . . . and at highest rank held during the war

    Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
    Admiral William Halsey
    Admiral Raymond Spruance
    Admiral John S. McCain
    Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood
    Vice Admiral Frank Fletcher
    Commodore Arleigh Burke
    Captain John Thach
    Captain James Flatley
    Lieutenant Commander John Waldron


    What? there was a war in Europe, too? Well, if that don’t beat all … who won? :D
     
    R Leonard, Jan 17, 2004
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  14. cristi

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    I study for personal reasons your list. Very carefull men they.
     
    cristi, Jan 18, 2004
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  15. TheRedBaron

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    John Frost
    Terence Ottway
    John Howard [​IMG]

    Kurt Meyer
    Walter Koch
    Hans Von Luck [​IMG]

    James T Gavin
     
    TheRedBaron, Jan 19, 2004
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  16. TheRedBaron

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    And Kurt Student!!! [​IMG]
     
    TheRedBaron, Jan 19, 2004
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  17. Friedrich

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    Didn't he reach the rank of Admiral of the fleet too?

    By the way, Leonard, since I see you're a PTO fan. I don't see names like Mountbatten, Alexander, Wingate or Slim... Nor I see names like Stilwell, MacArthur, Smith, Bruckner, Vandergriff, Krueger...

    :confused: :rolleyes:
     
    Friedrich, Jan 22, 2004
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  18. Paul_9686

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    Didn't he reach the rank of Admiral of the fleet too?</font>[/QUOTE]Yes, he did, shortly before he died in the late 1950s, I think.

    Yours,
    Paul
     
    Paul_9686, Jan 23, 2004
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  19. R Leonard

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    Truth be known, I have a very, very narrow field of interest … obviously from my list. So, while I’m certainly aware of all those other gents and generally, but not detailed, conversant in their activities, any interest I’d have in them would only be as it would relate to my, oh, so narrow field. There is, IMHO, X amount of information and Y amount of time … kind of a “so much history and so little time” so I have a very small specialty, US naval aviation/carrier operations. I could get even narrower … specifically such operations in the first 6 months of the war and the last 6 months of the war. Love the contrast.

    Halsey wasn’t promoted to Fleet Admiral until December 1945, after the war was over.
     
    R Leonard, Jan 23, 2004
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  20. Daniel Jones

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    Jochen Peiper
    von Paulus
    Manstein
    Chuikov
    Kirponos
    Paulus particularly for his final "slap in the face" and direct disobeyment of Hitler.
     
    Daniel Jones, Jan 25, 2004
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