Who was the most significant American in WWII?

Question:Which General or Military Leader, etc. I was told it was Eisenhower, but I couln't find any solid research to prove that he was THE most important.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Which General or Military Leader, etc. I was told it was Eisenhower, but I couln't find any solid research to prove that he was THE most important.

Politically the most important was our President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who led this nation before and during the war . The most militarily significant would be General George C. Marshall who oversaw as Chief of Staff all military campaigns in both theaters of war - the Pacific war under Chester Nimitz,CinC-Pac, who was overall commander in the Pacific just as under General Dwight D. Eisenhower was overall commander in the European theater of the war .
Marshal was instrumental in both war and peace for it was the Marshal Plan(ERC)(for which he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize) that helped rebuild the war-torn economies of nations . He was both Roosevelt's and Truman's right-hand man .
Truman need be mentioned because it was with his approval the atomic bombs were employed .
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haha it was, i just had a test about it today, small world

the most important was STALIN :DDDD

my father, had he not survived the war, i would not be here.

my grandfather

Ike was the overall commander of the entire allied force. for that reason alone he was the most important.

Every American in WWII was significant, but one of the most popular has to be General Patton. He has a tons of stories from during the war, some good, some bad.

none.

Lincon

Johnny Blackfoot. He singly handedly kill 722 Germans, including Hitler. He also freed 12,000 Jews from a concentration camp.

Roosevelt, without him the whole thing could not have gone down, history scholars are suggesting that Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor and let it happen so the American people could have a reason to go to war. Without him the world would be entirely different, he supported Britain while most of the nation did not care and appointed the people who made things happen in the war.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/p...

Dewight Eisenhower... He is the one who thought up the plan to invade Europe June 6th 1944 D-Day

George Marshal told Roosevelt what to do and Eisenhower was the supreme commander in Europe. Check it out !

I think the question is flawed.

Here's why:

Eisenhower made plans and decisions, but there where many many many others who also had the lives of soldiers in there hands as well.

Example, General MacArthur, Admiral "Bull" Halsey, Gen. Patton, Gen Bradley

All of these men saw men that they led die in battle, each had to have the grit needed to overcome all the challenges that the Axis powers dished out.

Added to that list is the tremendous stress that both FDR and Truman had to deal with.

Significant?????? All who had to serve, but if you going to single a group, try the one's who did not come home alive.

President Franklin Roosevelt.

Roosevelt tried to counter the Republican Party conspiracy to back industry into selling military goods to the countries we were going to fight during the 1930s, and when Roosevelt saw that the "Axis" was expanding too fast and too potently, he knew we would be in a war. The Republicans tried to stop Roosevelt from building up our military because they did not want the Soviet/Nazi/Imperial Japanese "market" that business had exploited to turn against our industry and stop being customers of US industry, so Roosevelt did so secretly and he re-started the draft in 1936.

When General MacArthur asked the Navy to have its Marines teach the Army how to do combat beach landings for the upcoming assault on the Japanese-held islands above Australia, the Marines obliged. But on their first attack with the Marines in support, MacArthur realized that the US Marine tactics of charging the machineguns on the beach was not feasable. MacArthur ordered a retreat and told the Navy to come pick them up and take them back to Australia. Admiral Nitwit (Nimitz) had a fit, but since the Army disengaged, Nitwit had no choice but to very reluctantly order an evacuation, since his Marines also had to retreat.

MacArthur then assembled his staff officers and they went back over the strategy the Marines had taught the Army, while Nitwit had a rage and refused to transport the Army. This led Roosevelt to call a highly secret meeting where Roosevelt met with MacArthur and Nitwit in Hawaii, and the three had it out. Roosevelt realized that MacArthur was right, and accepted MacArthur's plan of landing where the enemy is not or is at least at the weakest, split the island in half to cut communication and supply, clear the weakest end and then split the remaining enemy territory and conquer the enemey sector by sector until an island was completely liberated. Roosevelt then placed MacArthur in charge of the Pacific Theater and over the Navy, but Roosevelt specified that the Marines would take their orders from the Navy, not from the Army.

During the entire war, from 1942 to 1945, the US Army performed two-thirds of all of the combat island beach landings in the Pacific and the Marines performed one-third, but the Army's casualty rate for the war in the Pacific was 15%, whereas the Marines' casualty rate for the war in the Pacific was 45% ! ! ! Roosevelt clearly made all of the right choices all along!

FDR all da way

I would say Roosevelt. Not just because he was great, helping to end the war and the like, but also because of his bad qualities. At the end of WWII, he agreed to let Stalin take over large parts of Eastern Europe, because he was about to die and he wanted the war over with. This later was a major cause of the Cold War.

I would have to say John Wayne

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Douglas MacCarther

i would say eisenhower or maybe patton.

the one and only mac arthur