2007-10-26 13:30:18 · 15 answers · asked by Air-Jordan 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Vinegar Joe." American General Joseph Warren Stilwell.
Stilwell received two demerit points at West Point - for laughing during drill. He served as an intelligence officer in France during World War I. Between the wars he served three tours in China and became fluent in Chinese.
Stilwell called the Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek "Peanut" and witnessed first-hand the corruption and incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Generals and reported it to his superiors. His mission in Burma (training the Chinese army to fight the Japanese) during the Second World War was acknowleged by George Marshall as "the toughest assignment of any theater commander."
In the end, Stilwell "was sacrificed as a political expedient due to his inability to get along with his allies in his theatre." After he was relieved of his command and returned to the U.S. - he was met at the airport by two army generals "who told him not to answer any media questions about China whatsoever."
2007-10-26 15:22:57 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow did you run into some drop cases tonight. General Kruschev?, General FDR. General Churchill, And Lee, in WWII. I knew they weren't learning too much in school but these people are way out in left field.
I would like to talk to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. He was a one star and his knowledge of American History was phenomenal.
2007-10-26 13:54:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
General Lee
2007-10-26 13:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by Lee P 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
General Patton or Eisenhower
2007-10-26 14:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usual (Vinegar) Joe Stillwell who commanded American and chinese language troops in China and Burma. additionally, considerable usual Orde Wingate of the British military. the two fought alongside their troops each and every of the time. container Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery became an outstanding usual who became continually very close to to the combating. Patton became a forthright no-nonsense usual and became continually close to to the front traces, yet like like maximum generals observed no front-line try against in the time of WW-2. in actuality, Eisenhower by no skill observed any try against in WW-a million or WW-2, he became an administrator.
2016-12-30 07:10:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MacArthur I think
very unusual man, I just read "An American Ceaser" about him and it was totally fascinating.
He made a lot of mistakes personally and politically but militarily he was brilliant and his strategy for restructuring Japan was absolutely marvelous.
2007-10-26 13:43:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ......I mean they were struggle with the freaking Germans.....you know the soviets had trouble with the weapons supply and betrayed by the Germans......and they were able to turn it over and also how they defended Stalingrad
2007-10-26 13:38:58 · answer #7 · answered by daalmelo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rommel, Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, Guderian or James Gavin..... I would've said Patton, but he'd probably slap me or something....jk
2007-10-26 20:40:39 · answer #8 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
McAuliff, the gent whose response to the German inquiry as to his wish to surrender at Bastogne in December 1944 was
"nuts" then "go to hell".
2007-10-26 14:57:43 · answer #9 · answered by william_byrnes2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winston Churchhill or Douglas McArther, there the only people I really remember about that time other than Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2007-10-26 13:45:47 · answer #10 · answered by Buffy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋