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Born July 25, 1896 • London • England
Died July 29, 1982 (aged 86) • London • Kingston upon Thames • England
Role In Normandy Invasion • World War II
Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.
Miles Christopher Dempsey
British general
Bernard Law Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery
British military commander
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan
British officer
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British commander of Allied air forces used in the Normandy Invasion.
Trafford Leigh-Mallory
British air marshal
Bertram Home Ramsay, naval commander in chief of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion.
Bertram Home Ramsay
British officer
Arthur William Tedder
Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
British air marshal
Percy Hobart
British military officer
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander
British general
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
British field marshal
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham
British army officer
John Harding, Baron Harding of Petherton
John Harding, Baron Harding of Petherton
British military officer
David Stirling
David Stirling
British officer
Dill
Sir John Greer Dill
British field marshal
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
British field marshal
Sir Claude Auchinleck
British general
William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
British field marshal
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
John Clifford Hodges Lee
United States Army officer

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