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Born March 2, 1886 • Potsdam • Germany
Died January 27, 1974 (aged 87) • West Germany
Role In Normandy Invasion • World War II

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Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
Salmuth, Hans von
Hans von Salmuth
German military officer
Dollmann, Friedrich
Friedrich Dollmann
German officer
Sperrle, Hugo
Hugo Sperrle
German military officer
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Gerd von Rundstedt.
Gerd von Rundstedt
German field marshal
Heinz Guderian
Heinz Guderian
German general
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Keitel
German military officer
Eberbach, Heinrich
Heinrich Eberbach
German military officer
Brauchitsch, Walther von
Walther von Brauchitsch
German military officer
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
John Clifford Hodges Lee
United States Army officer
Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery
British military commander
Léo Major
Canadian soldier
James Alward Van Fleet
United States military commander
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley
United States general
World War II: liberation of Paris
Jacques-Philippe Leclerc
French general
Maxwell Taylor, 1962.
Maxwell Davenport Taylor
United States army officer
Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.
Miles Christopher Dempsey
British general

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