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George Catlett Marshall. One of the greatest Americans ever. He took over as Chief of Staff on September 3, 1939, two days after Nazi tanks rolled into Poland. He inherited an army equipped and mentally prepared to re-fight WWI. He was the true architect of victory, growing the US Army from a strength of about 200,000 (21st largest in the world) to more than eight million. Additionally, at that time the air force was the US Army Air Corp, also under Marshall's command, which grew to over three million strong, with thousands of aircraft.
Postwar, he was retired for six days, when Truman called on him as a special envoy to China. After this he became Secretary of State, and laid the foundation for the miraculous recovery of Europe with the Marshall Plan.
Marshall had always planned to lead the invasion of Europe personally when the time came, but Roosevelt would not allow this, saying he could not sleep at night if Marshall was away from Washington. Instead the command went to his protege, Eisenhower. Had Marshall been allowed to take the field, its likely he would have been president instead of Ike, and it would take a real historian to know who Eisenhower was.
Marshall was not a West Pointer. He graduated from VMI (the Virginia Military Institute) in 1915.
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∙ 13y agoMcArthur was in charge of US operations in Japan after WWII until the outbreak of the Korean War.
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∙ 14y agoMacArthur, because he was the Commanding General of the US Army in the Pacific at the time
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∙ 13y agoGeneral MacArthur.
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