Best ground force General of WW II (SD Vote)

and the list we have assembled thus far is all Ground generals no air generals. I threw in a Marine general Smith, We could expand this really widely. And we have to ask are selves are we looking to over all commanders like Ike. Or field commanders like Rommel Monty and Patton or Commanders who laid critical ground work like Smith who fathered modern Amphibious assaults which proved critical in the Pacific war on Japan and the Normandy landings.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

and the list we have assembled thus far is all Ground generals no air generals. I threw in a Marine general we could expand this really widely.

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Maybe we need three threads?

Best Ground Force General of world War II

Best Air Force General of World War II

Best Admiral of World War II

All right, We now have three threads. Let's get the lists of generals.

Some of the leading Japanese generals who I do not believe were tried for war crimes:

- IJA
- IJA
- IJA
- IJA

Let's not forget the Chinese generals:

...or the other Russian Generals:

So, I suggest we go ahead and let people vote on the following 26 names. It gives a very broad coverage and will allow the top gground force generals overall, and from each nation to come through:

Zhukov - Soviet Union
Patton - United States
Rommel - Germany
Montgomery - Great Britian
Shunroku Hata - Imperial Japan
Mao Zedong - China
Ivan Bagramyan - Soviet Union
McArthur - United States
Jodl - Germany
Harold Alexander - Great Britian
Prince Kotohito Kan'in - Imperial Japan
Chiang Kai-shek - China
Nikolai Vatutin - Soviet Union
Eisenhower - United States
Model - Germany
Viscount Gort - Great Britian
Hisaichi Terauchi - Imperial Japan
Zhu De - China
Ivan Konev - Soviet Union
Bradley - United states
Claude Auchinleck - Great Britian
Shunroku Hata - Imperial Japan
Chen Cheng - China
Semyon Timoshenko - Soviet Union
Smith - United States
Yan Xishan - China

What do you think?

1. Erich von Manstein
2. Georgy Zhukov
3. Albert Kesselring
4. Walther Model
5. Heinz Guderian
6. George Patton
7. Bernard Montgomery
8. Ivan Konev
9. Vasily Chuikov
10. Fedor von Bock

Well, if we replace doubles, and keep the numbers fair, that leaves us with:

Zhukov - Soviet Union
Patton - United States
Rommel - Germany
Montgomery - Great Britain
Shunroku Hata - Imperial Japan
Mao Zedong - China
Ivan Bagramyan - Soviet Union
McArthur - United States
Jodl - Germany
Harold Alexander - Great Britain
Prince Kotohito Kan'in - Imperial Japan
Chiang Kai-shek - China
Nikolai Vatutin - Soviet Union
Eisenhower - United States
Model - Germany
Viscount Gort - Great Britain
Hisaichi Terauchi - Imperial Japan
Zhu De - China
Ivan Konev - Soviet Union
Bradley - United States
Fedor von Bock - Germany
Claude Auchinleck - Great Britain
Shunroku Hata - Imperial Japan
Chen Cheng - China
Vasily Chuikov - Soviet Union
Smith - United States
Albert Kesselring - Germany
Yan Xishan - China

Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Free French forces