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Thomas Kinkaid commanded the U.S. Seventh Fleet under MacArthur and led the Allied naval force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.

Douglas MacArthur commanded the Southwest Pacific in WWII, accepted Japan’s surrender in 1945, and led UN forces in Korea until 1951.

J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the Los Alamos Laboratory of the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bombs in 1945.

Alan Turing led Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, designed the Bombe that attacked Enigma, and defined the theory of computing in 1936.

Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day and later became the 34th President of the United States.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955): physicist, author of relativity and E=mc², exile from Nazi Germany, and the 1939 letter that helped launch the atomic age.

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945): leader of Nazi Germany 1933–45, the road to power, the Second World War and the Holocaust, documented.

Joseph Stalin (1878–1955): Soviet leader from the 1920s to 1953, industrialisation, the purges, and the USSR’s war against Germany.

Winston Churchill (1874–1965): British prime minister 1940–45 and 1951–55, wartime leader, orator and Nobel Prize-winning writer.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945): 32nd US president, the New Deal, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor and the Allied conferences of WWII.