What American WW2 Generals Think Of Allied and Enemy Generals ?

So what did American World War Two generals think of Allied and Enemy Generals?

0:00 - Intro
0:12 - Dwight D. Eisenhower about Douglas MacArthur
1:26 - Eisenhower about George C. Marshall
3:37 - Eisenhower about Omar Bradley
3:55 - Eisenhower about George S. Patton
4:58 - Eisenhower about Bernard Montgomery
5:15 - Eisenhower about Georgy Zhukov
6:53 - Eisenhower about Chester W. Nimitz
7:27 - Eisenhower about Erwin Rommel
7:39 - Eisenhower about Adolf Hitler
8:17 - Eisenhower about Pietro Badoglio
8:50 - Eisenhower about Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud
10:24 - Douglas MacArthur about Dwight D. Eisenhower
10:30 - MacArthur about Hirohito
10:55 - Omar Bradley about Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton
12:23 - George C. Marshall about Dwight D. Eisenhower
12:43 - Marshall about Omar Bradley
12:54 - Marshall about George S. Patton
13:37 - George S. Patton about Douglas MacArthur
14:07 - Patton about Bernard Montgomery
14:12 - Patton about Georgy Zhukov

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[tomdolan]

Eisenhower served on McArthur’s staff in the PI prewar. McArthur famously said he was the best clerk he ever had. Eisenhower retorted that he studied drama for four years under McArthur

[Nicksonian]

Eisenhower and Marshall were largely selfless, while MacArthur was all about himself.

[keithdevine]

Macarthur didn't like the Australians, and I think the feeling was mutual.

[Gary-zqpz]

Eisenhower was the greatest cat herder of all time. Organizing the allied war effort was a task that was beyond impossible, but Ike managed it somehow.

[dr.kangaroo]

My grandpa was a navy WWII veteran and had a huge admiration for Chester Nimitz and absolutely HATED Douglas MacArthur

[Samlind]

Out of all these guys, Eisenhower was a president, Bradley eventually got his 5th star, and the name of the US operation that saved and fed Europe after WWII was the Marshall plan. Marshall also ended up as Secretary of State.

[kkaw]

MacArthur was a legend in his own mind. He took credit for everything. He even tried to upstage Truman. When Truman went out to talk to him, both were flying in separate Aircraft. MacArthur was delaying his landing trying to Get Truman to land first so it would look like Truman was waiting for MacArthur instead of the proper protocol of MacArthur waiting to greet Truman. Truman had his pilot call MacArthurs plane and ordered the pilot to get that plane on the ground now. Truman eventually fired that AssHat.

[jusdafax]

It is an absolute disgrace that MacArthur was given a Medal of Honor for completely mishandling the Philippines campaign in 1941/42, losing his Air Force without a shot being fired, abandoning his men to the Bataan death march, and then orchestrating a totally useless campaign to retake the Philippines to hide the massive black mark on his record. How many hundred thousand allied soldiers died to feed his ego?

[terryrussel]

MacArthur. Well, let's just say that according to my WW2 Veteran sources, his picture can be found in the dictionary under 'ego' and leave it at that.
Patton: Remember this. NEVER bad mouth Georgie in front of troops who "Served With Patton". ESPECIALLY if you are a member of 'The Press'.

[adamstrange]

Ike showed leadership and diplomacy, MacArthur wouldn't give you a red cent unless you gave him a press releases or an Xrated a$$ kissing!

[charlesharper]

Eisenhower was always a class act...the only allied commander who could have kept the competing General's egos under control.

[jamesricker]

Nobody who served with or under MacArthur had anything good to say about him

[stevehicks]

Leave it to Patton to not mince words about his opinion of Soviet troops!

[tupperlake]

I think the general who did most for the U.S. was Marshall. Respected by all parties. He was also an excellent statesman. Marshall recognized Eisenhowers talent and helped advance his career. Like many people who accomplish the most are those who are brought into jobs they don't even want. My brother served in the U.S. army in the Pacific during WW2. He had an intense dislike for MacArthur. The U.S. navy had a better plan for winning the Pacific War, but the president chose MacArthur's "Island Hopping" proposal. A smart politician/military leader would not have sent the cavalry to attack U.S. Army veterans peaceful demonstration. Doing that got him removed from the army and sent to the Phillipines. Roosevelt sent his wife to discuss the problem with veterans. She accomplished much more than MacArthur.

[ConnMtenor]

George C. Marshall would have made an outstanding POTUS. A fully formed human being.

[LittleMacscorner]

Macarthur was a HORRIBLE General. One of the single most overrated military figures in military history. He IGNORED the ACTUAL plan to defend the Phillipines trying to fight on the beaches and defend the whole island. His 'heroic' withdrawal from the beaches to Bataan line NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED....because they never should have been on the beaches in the first place.

And the military was never supposed to be divided across all the islands....it was supposed to be concentrated in a defensive in depth INLAND.



Never-mind his attempts to appease the Philippine president and not launch air strikes at the start of the conflict according TO PLAN and over micromanagement of his fighter force got his entire air force destroyed ON THE GROUND.


Let's later his arrogance in the Korean war GOT CHINA created a problem we are STILL DEALING WITH TO THIS DAY.

His solution? Nuke China.

Worst. General. Ever.

[johnharris]

Eisenhower and Nimitz were excellent judges of talent and not above sacking incompetent commanders and replacing them with better commanders. Ike did this when he Replaced Lloyd Fredendall with Patton and Nimitz replaced Ghormley with Halsey.

[spudskie]

MacArthur is overrated and should have been fired for the Philippines debacle in 41-42.

[pfrstreetgang]

MacArthur showed what a lunatic he was long before the Philippines during the attempted court marshall of Billy Mitchell.

[margaretjackson]

Bradley was very wrong about the Polish and Canadian soldiersMy Father fought with them them from Belgium to Northern Germany, he said if you ever needed a Brothers in Arms it was them.I never heard him say a bad word about them and had great respect