General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- He was the Allies Supreme Commander.
- He joined MacArthur in the Philippines where the Americans were trying to organize a Philippines defense force in preparation of the region being given its independence.
- He planned to use Normandy to land Allied troops.
General Omar Bradley
- General of the Army and first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- He considered himself a professional failure because he had spent the war in the United States while his contemporaries had distinguished themselves on the battlefields of France.
- He created the development of an officer candidate school model that would serve as a prototype for similar schools across the Army.
Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey
- He was promoted to head of the 13th Corps in the 8th Army.
- He was known for being an expert in combined operations.
- He and his men crossed the River Rhine and in May, and captured Hamburg.
Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory
- He served with the Territorial Battalion of the King's Regiment in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I and later received a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers.
- He took command of 11 Group which covered the airspace over London and southeast England.
- He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Air Forces in South-East Asia in November 1944.
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
- He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
- He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1931.
- He was ordered to Britain to take command of the 21st Army Group which comprised all of the ground forces assigned to the invasion of Normandy.
Admiral Bertram H. Ramsay
- He received orders to join the revolutionary new battleship HMS Dreadnought.
- He received admission to the new Royal Naval War College in 1913.
- He was approached by Churchill to begin planning an evacuation.
General Carl Spaatz
- Was the first chief of staff of the US air force in Washington DC
- Graduated from the US Military Academy on June 12, 1914
- Commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry