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Wolfgang Lüth
Wolfgang Lüth was a leading U-boat commander, credited with 46 ships sunk, and the first naval officer to receive the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943): the Japanese admiral who planned Pearl Harbor, opposed war with America, and was killed in a US ambush over Bougainville in 1943.
Günther Rall
Günther Rall was the third-highest scoring ace in history, credited with 275 victories, and later became Inspector of the post-war German Air Force.
Fyodor Okhlopkov
Fyodor Okhlopkov was a Yakut sniper credited with 429 kills, one of the most effective snipers of the Second World War, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Pokryshkin
Alexander Pokryshkin was the Soviet Union's second-highest scoring ace, credited with 59 victories and three Hero of the Soviet Union awards.
Joachim Schepke
Joachim Schepke was a leading U-boat ace of the Battle of the Atlantic; post-war research credits him with 36 ships sunk, not the wartime claim of 37.
Erich Rudorffer
Erich Rudorffer was one of the Luftwaffe's highest-scoring aces, credited with 222 aerial victories on the Western and Eastern Fronts and in the Me 262.
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque led the Free French 2nd Armoured Division into Paris in August 1944 and on to Strasbourg.
Eileen Nearne
Eileen Nearne was a British SOE wireless operator in occupied France who was captured by the Gestapo, sent to Ravensbrück and escaped to freedom.
Nadezhda Popova
Nadezhda Popova flew 852 night bombing missions in a wooden Po-2 biplane with the Soviet "Night Witches" and became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester Nimitz (1885–1966): the admiral who rebuilt the Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor and won Midway, Leyte and Okinawa.
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