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Also Known As Yeh T’ing • Ye Weixun • Xiyi
Born September 10, 1896 • Shexian • China
Died April 8, 1946 (aged 49) • China
Political Affiliation Chinese Communist Party
Role In Second Sino-Japanese War • World War II
Zhu De
Chinese military leader
Chen Yi
Chen Yi
Chinese military leader
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese statesman
Albert Coady Wedemeyer
United States general and statesman
Wang Ching-wei, 1941
Wang Ching-wei
Chinese revolutionary
Claire L. Chennault.
Claire L. Chennault
United States general
Stilwell, Joseph W.
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States general
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
United States military officer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German minister
Harold K. Johnson
United States Army officer
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
United States general
Konoe Fumimaro.
Konoe Fumimaro
prime minister of Japan
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
United States general
John Clifford Hodges Lee
United States Army officer
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general

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