The National World War II Monument 

World War II Generals, Military, POWs & the USO

Updated April 14, 2007

THE GENERALS
Omar Bradley (US)
General Omar Bradley
Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley

Dwight D. Eisenhower (US)
1944 Man of the Year: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower
For info on Ike, the president, check out my Presidents page.

Charles DeGaulle (French)
The World at War: Charles de Gaulle

Douglas MacArthur (US)
The American Experience | MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur, U.S.A., Ribbon Array
The MacArthur Memorial

George Marshall (US)
1943 Man of the Year: George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
George Marshall from the National Gallery of Art

Bernard Law Montgomery (UK)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

Admiral Chester Nimitz (US)
Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

George S. Patton (US)
Patton, George S. (1885-1945)
Patton's GHQ Home
"General George Smith Patton Jr. - Old Blood & Guts"
General George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
General George S. Patton, Jr.
General Patton
Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor

Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (USSR)
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov and mirror site

General (and Prime Minister) Hideki Tojo (Japan)
HIDEKI TOJO

MILITARY RANK INSIGNIA
British and US Military Ranks Compared
History of U.S. Army Officer Rank - General of the Army
Equivalent German/Waffen SS/British Army Ranks
Rank Insignia
Officer Rank Insignia and Enlisted Rank Insignia
U.S. Military Ranks
More info on my main Military History site.

UNIFORMS
World War Two Impressions, USA, Quality replica uniforms

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS
WORLD WAR II MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS (A-F) - (G-L) - (M-S) - (T-Z)
World War II Black Medal of Honor Recipients
Asian-Pacific Americans - Newly Presented Medals of Honor
Native American Medal of Honor Winners
Phaleristic Encyclopedia - study of orders, decorations, and medals

PRISONERS OF WAR AND THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH
Decision To Withdraw to Bataan 
Prisoner Of War: Pacific Theater 
Barbed Wire and Rice
Battling Bastards of Bataan
DEATH MARCH
POW book/Bataan
Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March
  Japanese Interrogation of Prisoners of War - U.S. Prisoners of War and Civilian American Citizens Captured and Interned by the Japanese
  Prisoners of War: World War II
  The Story of Stalag Luft III 
   The Great Escape: Stalag (Luft) III
  World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I 
     Lost Battalion of Texas in WWII Burma 
   World War II: American POWs and MIAs
   maurice a christie unit 731 mukden japan prisoner of war
World War II Prisoner of War book - POW-83
Military History - Prisoners of Nazis by Harry Spiller 
    Germ war and human experimentation on POWs by Japanese Army
ISLAND FARM: German POWs attempt escape from English Prison Camp
  McLean(TX) Prisoner of War (WWII) Camp 
For more first person accounts, check out my WWII Diaries/Journals page.
For more, please visit the POW/MIA section on my Military History, Info, Stats page.

VETERANS
Links to WW2 Veterans Websites
The Second World War - Veterans Affairs Canada
For more, check out the veteran sites on my Military History, Info, Stats page.

PERSONAL DIARIES, JOURNALS, & ORAL HISTORIES
Dad's War: Finding and Telling Your Father's World War II Story
  Rutgers Oral History Archives - Oral History Interviews: Conflict Index
For many personal accounts of the war, check out my WWII Diaries/Journals page. You can also find more personal accounts in the specific topic areas listed on my Main WWII page.

WOMEN AND MINORITIES WHO SERVED
African American Military Service WWI-WWII, Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 
  African American World War II Medal of Honor Recipients
  World War II: New Roles for Minorities 
  A People at War: Women Who Served
  Imperial War Museum Education Services - No Job for a Woman
  Employment of Negro Troops in WWII 
  Minority Groups in World War II 
  Afro-Americans and the Military, 1939-45
  "The Negro Soldier" - propaganda film by Frank Capra,  "The Negro Soldier", part 2 
  AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN MILITARY HISTORY/World War II  
  The Tuskegee Airmen - more info on my WWII in the Air & at Sea page.
  The Women's Army Corps
  A People at War: Women Who Served 
   The Army Nurse Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service - more info on women's contribution to the war effort at home and overseas on my WWII Women & the Homefront page.

THE USO - BOB HOPE - MARLENE DIETRICH
USO - United Service Organizations
USO (United Service Organizations)
About the USO
Historical Overview: USO
USO Nostalgia
USO: Spirit of Hope Award
On the Road: USO Shows: Bob Hope and American Variety (Library of Congress)
FRA's Naval Affairs - Bob Hope Named 'Honorary Veteran' by Congress
Entertainment Tonight-Bob Hope
Hope Enterprises, Inc. - Home Page
Biography for Bob Hope
A Tribute to Bob Hope
Entertainment Tonite-Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich home page at Arkadia Records
Marlene Dietrich Lili Marlene -Liner Notes
Marlene Dietrich: LILI MARLENE
Memories of the 1940's: Re: WWII songs - Lili Marlene

KILROY WAS HERE!
WW II Encyclopedia -- Kilroy Was Here
Kilroy Was Here
Who Was Kilroy?
Kilroy info
What's the origin of "Kilroy was here?"
Kilroy

MISC.
Mobilization in WWII 
  A Brief History of the U.S. Army in World War II 
  HyperWar: Reader's Guide to the U.S. Army in World War II Series
  HyperWar: U.S. Army in World War II 
   World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle 
  World War Two Ration Technologies Ration History Page 
  World War Two Ration Technologies Links Page 
  The World War II Combat Medic
  Soviet Union Factbook - Great Patriotic War (World War II) - Red Air Force  - Red Army - Red Navy  
  Second World War [Australian War Memorial] 
  German Fallschirmjäger 1936-1945 
  Feldgrau.com - The German Armed Forces 1919-1945 
  Arsenal of Dictatorship: Online Encyclopedia of German WWII Weapons
  German Naval History 
  The Luftwaffe, 1933-45
  Imperial Japanese Navy Page 
  The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps In WWII 
  Maple Leaf Up Presents the Canadian Army Overseas in WW2 - the History, Weapons 
   U.S. Army in World War II Series
Second World War Online Databse of Orders of Battle and Unit Histories 
Books Go To War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II
  Military Bases in San Diego - World War I 1914-1920 - 1921-1945 
  WAR DOGS - THE UNTOLD STORY OF DOGS IN COMBAT 
  National World War II Memorial

More info can be found on the following pages from my WWII site: WWII in Europe, Pearl Harbor & the Pacific War, & War in the Air & at Sea. For German officers and military: Hitler and the Holocaust.