| Yamashita, for his efforts against the odds in Malaya and Singapore with the Japanese 25th Army [just 3 divisions] that routed a force twice its size and seized the "impregnable" fortress of Singapore in about 70 days. Plus, he was still unbeaten and fighting in the Philippines until the end of the war.
Wonder if he deserved to be executed as a war criminal?
It's amazing that the Japanese Blitzkrieg of South East Asia was done with just 11 of it's 50+ divisions, the rest were lined up against the Chinese and guarding Manchuria against a possible Soviet attack.
Amongst the Germans, Manstein was a great strategist, Guderian and Rommel great with Panzers.
Kesselring did well in Italy, although he had ideal country to fight a defensive campaign.
Wondering why have some of you seem to have it in for Rommel?
I know he was made a Legend, partly by the British themselves, but he proved in France and North Africa how good he was, I think he may have been deadly on the Eastern front.
Hauser was probably the best of a fairly average bunch of Waffen SS commanders.
Doppleganger gave his reasons for not including Mannerheim, although not part of the tripartite pact, he fought on the side of the axis powers, and would probably fit into this thread more then the Allied thread.
Where would you rate him amongst the Axis Commanders? |