Excellent topic — happy to be on this thread. Wonder how I missed the links? Must have spent too much time reading the papers!
Okay, a thumbnail sketch on my best (read: effective) commanders:
British: Richard O’Connor (underrated general, defeated the Italians in North Africa before being captured in a freak incident — later escaped and commanded a corps in France); Brian Horrocks (commander XXX Corps).
American: Omar Bradley, Chester Nimitz, George Patton. It has been said that the reason the Germans admired Patton so much was that he was the Allied commander who thought most like they did.
Russian: Georgi Zhukov, Ivan Koniev.
German: Erich von Manstein, Adolf Galland, Fedor von Bock
Japanese: Tomoyuki Yamashita.
Wasn't he in command of XXX Corps during their leisurely advance toward Arnheim?
There were no links to miss because the thread wasn't launched until around 8 PDT this morning. From now on a link will be built into every daily news thread.