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• "31-Knot Burke" — Arleigh Burke
  Arleigh Burke
  Admiral Arleigh Albert '31-knot' Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.-Early life and naval career:Burke was born in Boulder,...
  
  , U.S. Navy destroyer commander (for being unable to meet his habitual maximum speed)

A

• "ABC" — Andrew Browne Cunningham
  Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
  Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope KT, GCB, OM, DSO and two Bars , was a British admiral of the Second World War. Cunningham was widely known by his nickname, "ABC"....
  
  , British admiral
• "Acey" — Albert C. Burrows, World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander
• "Achmed" — Erich Bey
  Erich Bey
  Erich Bey was a German naval officer who most notably served as a commander of the Kriegsmarine's destroyer forces and commanded the battleship Scharnhorst in the Battle of North Cape on 26 December 1943, during which the German ship was sunk. He was killed during that action. Bey was also a...
  
  , German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   Kriegsmarine
  Kriegsmarine
  The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...
  
  admiral
• "Allegheny Johnson" or "Alleghany Johnson" — Edward Johnson
  Edward Johnson (general)
  Edward Johnson , also known as Allegheny Johnson , was a United States Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
  
  , Confederate Army general
• "Assi" — Hans Hahn, German fighter pilot during World War II
• "The Auk" — Claude Auchinleck
  Claude Auchinleck
  Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE , nicknamed "The Auk", was a British army commander during World War II. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he developed a love of the country and a lasting affinity for the soldiers...
  
  , British Indian Army Field Marshal
• "Autie" — George Custer
  George Armstrong Custer
  George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class...
  
  , American Army officer

B

• "Babe" —
  • John H. Brown
    John H. Brown
    John Brown is a Senior Fellow at USC Center on Public Diplomacy where he regularly publishes the .Brown is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he has taught courses about public diplomacy....
    
    , World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander
  • Edward Heffron
    Edward Heffron
    -External links:**...
    
    , World War II paratrooper
• "Bad Hand" — Ranald S. Mackenzie
  Ranald S. Mackenzie
  Ranald Slidell Mackenzie was a career United States Army officer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, described by General Ulysses S. Grant as its most promising young officer...
  
  , U.S. Army in U.S Civil War and Indian Wars
• "Bad Old Man" — Jubal Early, Confederate Army
  Confederate States Army
  The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War. On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the...
  
   general
• "Baldy" — Charles A. Pownall
  Charles Alan Pownall
  Charles Alan Pownall was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and Governor of Guam . He was the third military Governor and first naval Governor of Guam following the United States recapture of the island from the Japanese...
  
  , American Admiral in World War II
• "Barbara" – David G. M. Campbell
  David Campbell (British Army officer)
  General Sir David Graham Muschet "Soarer" Campbell GCB was a cavalry officer of the British Army, amateur sportsman, and later Governor of Malta....
  
  , British general
• "Barney" —
  • Clifton W. Flenniken, Jr., U.S. Navy submarine commander
  • William B. Sieglaff, U.S. Navy submarine commander
• "The Bart" — Philip Chetwode
  Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
  Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO was a British cavalry officer who became Commander in Chief in India.-Early life and education:...
  
  , British Field Marshal, Commander in Chief in India, and baronet (whence the nickname)
• "Batty Mac" — A.C. Macdonnell, Canadian Army World War I general
• "The Bear" — Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf KCB , also known as "Stormin' Norman" and "The Bear", is a retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.-Early life:Schwarzkopf was born in Trenton, New...
  
  , United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   general (the nickname he preferred, over "Stormin' Norman")
• "The Bearded Man" — Frank Messervy
  Frank Messervy
  General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, KCSI, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar, , was a British Indian Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars...
  
  , British Army general (because he tended not to shave in battle)
• "Beauty" — Harold M. Martin, U.S. Navy officer
• "Benny" — Raymond H. Bass, World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander
• "Beetle" — John P. Roach, U.S. Navy submarine commander
• "Betty" — Harold Stark
  Harold Rainsford Stark
  Harold Rainsford Stark served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. Stark was the US Navy's 8th Chief of Naval Operations, from August 1, 1939 to 26 March 1942....
  
  , U.S. Navy admiral (after a mistaken pledge)
• "Big Al, (The Sailor's Pal)" - Al Konetzni, American Admiral
• "The Big Fella" or "The Big Fellow" — Michael Collins
  Michael Collins (Irish leader)
  Michael "Mick" Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently, he was both Chairman of the...
  
  , Irish general
• "Big Minh" — Duong Van Minh
  Duong Van Minh
  Minh was born on 16 February 1916 in Mỹ Tho Province in the Mekong Delta, the son of a wealthy landowner who served in a prominent position in the Finance Ministry of the French colonial administration...
  
  , Vietnamese general (for his height and bulk)
• "Bing"— K. B. B. Cross
  Kenneth Cross
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Brian Boyd Cross KCB CBE DSO DFC RAF , was a senior Royal Air Force commander. He was commonly known as Bing.-RAF career:...
  
  , British World War II RAF pilot
• "Birdy" – William Birdwood
  William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
  Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, CIE, DSO was a First World War British general who is best known as the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.- Youth and early career :Birdwood was born...
  
  , British Field Marshal
• "Black Baron" – Michael Wittmann
  Michael Wittmann
  Michael Wittmann was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. Wittmann would rise to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer and was a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross holder....
  
  , German tank ace
• "Black Bob" — Robert Craufurd
  Robert Craufurd
  Major-General Robert Craufurd was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament . After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, he was given command of the Light Division in the Napoleonic Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington...
  
  , British Army general
• "The Black Eagle" — Hubert Julian
  Hubert Julian
  Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was a Trinidad-born African American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed "The Black Eagle".-Biography:...
  
  , African-American Colonel in the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force
  Ethiopian Air Force
  The Ethiopian Air Force is the air arm of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and is tasked with protecting the air space, providing support to the ground forces as well as assisting during national emergencies.- Early years :...
  
  .
• "Black Jack" — John J. Pershing
  John J. Pershing
  John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB , was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I...
  
  , U.S. Army World War I general
• "Black Knight of the Confederacy
  Confederate States of America
  The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
  
  " — Turner Ashby
  Turner Ashby
  Turner Ashby, Jr. was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War. He had achieved prominence as Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's cavalry commander, in the grade of colonel, in the Shenandoah Valley before he was killed in battle in 1862...
  
  , Confederate Army
  Confederate States Army
  The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War. On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the...
  
   general
• "Black Knight" — Gerd von Rundstedt
  Gerd von Rundstedt
  Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt was a Generalfeldmarschall of the German Army during World War II. He held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war....
  
  , German Army field marshal
• "Black Swallow of Death" — Eugene Bullard
  Eugene Bullard
  Eugene Jacques Bullard was the first black military pilot and the only black pilot in World War I along with Ahmet Ali .-Early life:...
  
  , African-American World War I fighter pilot
• "Blackie" — David John Williams, Canadian fighter ace
• "Blinker"— W. R. Hall
  William Reginald Hall
  Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall, KCMG, CB, RN was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to 1919...
  
  , British Admiral, head of Room 40
  Room 40
  In the history of Cryptanalysis, Room 40 was the section in the Admiralty most identified with the British cryptoanalysis effort during the First World War.Room 40 was formed in October 1914, shortly after the start of the war...
  
   during World War One
• "Blondie" —
  • Arnold Walker
    Arnold Walker (RAF officer)
    Arnold Edgar 'Blondie' Walker DFC & Bar was a British fighter pilot during World War II who flew 169 sorties, was shot down three times, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross twice.- Early life :...
    
    , RAF pilot
  • Herbert Hasler
    Herbert Hasler
    Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert George "Blondie" Hasler, DSO, OBE was a distinguished Royal Marines officer in World War II, responsible for many of the concepts which ultimately led to the post-war formation of the Special Boat Service...
    
    , World War II Royal Marines
    Royal Marines
    The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines , are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service...
    
     officer
• "Blood" — J. A. L. Caunter, British general
• "Bloody Bill" — William T. Anderson
  William T. Anderson
  William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson was a pro-Confederate guerrilla leader in the American Civil War.Anderson was known for his brutality towards Union soldiers, and pro Union partisans, who were called Jayhawkers. Anderson participated in Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863...
  
  , Confederate
  Confederate States of America
  The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
  
   guerrilla leader
• "Bluey" - Keith Truscott
  Keith Truscott
  Keith William "Bluey" Truscott DFC & Bar was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club...
  
  , World War II Australian fighter ace
• "Boo" — Elwyn King
  Elwyn King
  Elwyn Roy King DSO, DFC was a fighter pilot and ace in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I. He scored twenty-six victories in aerial combat, making him the fourth highest-scoring Australian aviator of the war. King entered service as a Lighthorseman in 1915, before transferring to the...
  
  , World War I Australian fighter ace
• "Bobbie" — George W. E. J. Erskine, British general during World War II
• "Bobo" — Sigmund A. Bobczynski, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Bobs" — Frederick S. Roberts
  Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
  Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Bt, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, PC was a distinguished Indian born British soldier who regarded himself as Anglo-Irish and one of the most successful British commanders of the 19th century.-Early life:Born at Cawnpore, India, on...
  
  , British field marshal
• "Bohemian Private" (German: Böhmischer Gefreiter) - Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler
  Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
  
  
• "Bomber" — Arthur T. Harris
  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB OBE AFC , commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of World War...
  
  , British Air Chief Marshal during World War II
• "Boney" — Robert H. Close, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Boom" — Hugh Trenchard, World War I British Royal Flying Corps general (for his loud voice)
• "Boots" — Frederick C. Blesse, American fighter ace
• "Boy" — Frederick A. M. Browning
  Frederick Browning
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He is best known as the commander of the I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation...
  
  , World War II British airborne general
• "Brad" — Omar Bradley
  Omar Bradley
  Omar Nelson Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Brute" — Victor H. Krulak
  Victor H. Krulak
  Victor H. Krulak was a decorated United States Marine Corps officer who saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was born in Denver, Colorado to Jewish parents...
  
  , U.S. Marine Corps general
• "Bub" — Norvell G. Ward, U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Bubi" (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  , "young boy", "kid") —
  • Erich Hartmann
    Erich Hartmann
    Erich Alfred Hartmann , nicknamed "Bubi" by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare...
    
    , German fighter ace
  • Alfred Schreiber
    Alfred Schreiber
    Alfred Schreiber , nicknamed "Bubi", was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace. He is noted for claiming the first aerial victory by a jet fighter in aviation history. He was born in Keplachowitz....
    
    , first jet
    Fighter aircraft
    A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...
    
     ace
• "Buck"
  • Robert McNair, Canadian fighter ace
  • Lynn Compton
    Lynn Compton
    Lynn D. "Buck" Compton is a retired California Court of Appeals judge who served as the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. From 1946-1951, Compton served with the Los Angeles Police Department...
    
    , WWII Paratrooper Officer
• "Bud" —
  • Harold W. Bowker, Canadian fighter ace
  • William P. Gruner, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
• "Bull" —
  • Denver Randleman
    Denver Randleman
    -External links:* on Peter van de Wal's website**...
    
    , WWII Paratrooper
  • William Halsey, U.S. Navy admiral (a nickname he never used or answered to)
  • William Nelson, U.S. Navy admiral and Army general
  • Joseph M. Reeves
    Joseph M. Reeves
    Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves was an admiral in the United States Navy, who was an early and important supporter of U.S. Naval Aviation...
    
    , U.S. Navy admiral
  • William L. Wright, U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Bull of Scapa Flow
  Scapa Flow
  right|thumb|Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern endScapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about...
  
  " — Günther Prien
  Günther Prien
  Lieutenant Commander Günther Prien was one of the outstanding German U-boat aces of the first part of the Second World War, and the first U-boat commander to win the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Under Prien's command, the submarine sank over 30 Allied ships totaling about...
  
  , German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
   submarine
  Submarine
  A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
  
   ace (for his daring penetration of the British base)
• "Bungo" — Julian Byng, British World War I general
• "Buster" — Lionel Crabb
  Lionel Crabb
  Lionel "Buster" Crabb OBE, GM was a British Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission around a Soviet cruiser in 1956.-Early life:...
  
  , British frogman
  Frogman
  A frogman is someone who is trained to scuba diving or swim underwater in a military capacity which can include combat. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver or combatant diver or combat swimmer....
  
   (after the swimmer
  Buster Crabbe
  Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s.-Birth:...
  
  )
• "Butch" —
  • Robert A. Barton, Canadian fighter ace
  • Orme C. Robbins, U.S. submarine commander
  • (from "butcher") Arthur T. Harris
    Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB OBE AFC , commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of World War...
    
    , British air force general (affectionately given by his men)
  • Edward O'Hare
    Edward O'Hare
    Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare was an Irish-American naval aviator of the United States Navy who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Butch O’Hare’s final action took place on the night of November 26, 1943,...
    
    , U.S. WWII fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient
• "Butcher" — Arthur T. Harris
  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB OBE AFC , commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press, and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of World War...
  
  , British Air Chief Marshal during World War II
• "The Butcher of Ethiopia" — Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli , was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II.-Rise to prominence:...
  
  , Italian Army General
• "The Butcher of Fezzan" — Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli , was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II.-Rise to prominence:...
  
  , Italian Army General
• "Butcher of the Somme" — Douglas Haig
  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
  Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...
  
  , British field-marshal
• "Buzz" — George Beurling
  George Beurling
  George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF , was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War....
  
  , Canadian RAF fighter ace (a nickname he never acknowledged)

C

• "Caddy" — James A. Adkins
  James A. Adkins
  Major General James A. Adkins was appointed as the 28th adjutant general of Maryland effective June 1, 2008. The adjutant general is responsible for the daily operations of the Maryland Military Department which includes the Maryland Army National Guard, Maryland Air National Guard, Maryland...
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Chappie" — Daniel James, Jr., U.S. Air Force general^{http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=529&page=214}
• "Chargin' Charlie" — Charles Alvin Beckwith, U.S. Army colonel
• "Chesty" — Lewis B. Puller
  Chesty Puller
  Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Puller is the most decorated U.S...
  
  , U.S. Marine general
• "Chick" — Bernard A. Clarey
  Bernard A. Clarey
  Bernard Ambrose Clarey , nicknamed "Chick", was an admiral of the United States Navy. A submarine commander during World War II, he served during the late 1960s as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and in the early 1970s and Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet.-Early life and career:Clarey was...
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Chief" — Leon N. Blair, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Ching" — Willis A. Lee
  Willis A. Lee
  Willis Augustus "Ching" Lee, Jr. was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. Lee commanded the American ships during the second night of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and turned back a Japanese invasion force headed for the island...
  
  , World War II U.S. admiral
• "Chips" — Arthur S. Carpender
  Arthur S. Carpender
  Arthur Schuyler Carpender , nicknamed "Chips", was an American vice admiral during World War II commanding US naval forces in the Southwest Pacific.-Family:...
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine force commander
• "Cobber" — Edgar J. Kain
  Cobber Kain
  Edgar James Kain DFC was a New Zealand fighter pilot. Nicknamed "Cobber", Flying Officer Kain was the first RAF air ace of the Second World War, and also the first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Second World War. During the Battle of France in 1940, he scored 17 confirmed kills...
  
  , World War II RAF fighter ace
  Fighter Ace
  Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
  
  
• "Crack" — Walter Hanna, U.S. Army general
• "Crow" — Palmer H. Dunbar, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
• "Cump" — William Tecumseh Sherman
  William Tecumseh Sherman
  William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War , for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Curry" — August Thiele
  August Thiele
  August Adolf Karl Hermann Thiele was a Vizeadmiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of the heavy cruiser "Lützow". He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...
  
  , German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   Kriegsmarine
  Kriegsmarine
  The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...
  
  admiral
• "Cy" — Marshall H. Austin, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Cyclone" — Emmett S. Davis, World War II U.S. colonel

D

• "Dan" — Lawrence R. Daspit, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Debby" — Desmond Piers
  Desmond Piers
  Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, CM, DSC was a rear-admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and long-time resident of Chester, Nova Scotia, Piers served in the RCN from 1932 to 1967. In 1930, he was the first graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada to join the RCN...
  
  , Canadian admiral
• "Deke" (or "Deak") — William Parsons
  William Sterling Parsons
  Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons was a naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II...
  
  , American naval officer (armed Little Boy
  Little Boy
  "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon...
  
   aboard Enola Gay
  Enola Gay
  Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel Paul Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war...
  
  on first nuclear bombing mission)
• "Dennis" — Eugene Wilkinson, U.S. submarine officer
• "The Desert Fox" (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  : "Wüstenfuchs") — Erwin Rommel
  Erwin Rommel
  Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel , popularly known as the Desert Fox , was a German Field Marshal of World War II. He won the respect of both his own troops and the enemies he fought....
  
  , World War II German field marshal (Afrika Korps
  Afrika Korps
  The German Africa Corps , or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign of World War II...
  
  )
• "Dickie" —
  • Michael O'Moore Creagh
    Michael O'Moore Creagh
    Major-General Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh KBE MC, was a British soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 7th Armoured Division, the Desert Rats, between 1939 and 1941.-Early life:...
    
    , British general
  • Louis, Earl Mountbatten
    Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
    Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
    
    , British admiral and statesman
• "Dinty" — John R. Moore
  John R. Moore
  John Robert Moore was an American biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe.-Life:He was the son of an Episcopalian minister, and was born in Colorado. After a degree at the University of Missouri, he took a Ph.D. at Harvard University with a dissertation on ballads...
  
  , U.S. submarine commander
• "Dixie" — Richard M. Farrell, U.S. submarine commander
• "Dizzy" —
  • H. R. Allen, British Air Force fighter ace
  • Gordon B. Rainer, U.S. submarine commander
• "Donc" — Glynn R. Donaho
  Glynn R. Donaho
  Glynn Robert "Donc" Donaho was a U.S. Navy officer known principally for his exploits as a submarine commander during World War II, for which he received the Navy Cross four times, the Silver Star twice, and the Bronze Star twice. Donaho was born in George, Texas...
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Drug Stari" (Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  : Old Friend) - Josip Broz Tito
  Josip Broz Tito
  Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
  
  , Yugoslav general, later president-for-life of Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia
  Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
  
  
• "Dugout Doug" — Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
  , U.S. general (for living in tunnels during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines)
• "Dusty" — Robert E. Dornin, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Dutch" — John M. Will, U.S. submarine officer

E

• "Eagle" - Pyotr Bagration
  Pyotr Bagration
  Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...
  
  , Georgian
  Georgians
  The Georgians are an ethnic group that have originated in Georgia, where they constitute a majority of the population. Large Georgian communities are also present throughout Russia, European Union, United States, and South America....
  
   general in the Russian army in the Napoleonic Wars
• "Electric Brain" — Raymond A. Spruance
  Raymond A. Spruance
  Raymond Ames Spruance was a United States Navy admiral in World War II.Spruance commanded US naval forces during two of the most significant naval battles in the Pacific theater, the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea...
  
  , U.S. admiral
• "Electric Whiskers" — Annibale Bergonzoli
  Annibale Bergonzoli
  Annibale Bergonzoli , nicknamed "barba elettrica", "Electric Whiskers", was an Italian Lieutenant General during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. He commanded the defences of Bardia, Libya, after the short offensive into Egypt made by Rodolfo Graziani...
  
  , Italian general
• "Elphy Bey" — William G. K. Elphinstone, General, British commander in the First Anglo-Afghan War
  First Anglo-Afghan War
  The First Anglo-Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia, and also marked one of the worst...
  
  
• "Ensign" — Roy S. Benson
  Roy S. Benson
  Roy Stanley Benson is a veteran submarine commander from World War II who later served as the Commander Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet during the Cold War.-Naval career:...
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Extra Billy" — William Smith, U.S. Congressman, Confederate general

F

• "Schnelle Heinz" — Heinz Guderian
  Heinz Guderian
  Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German general during World War II. He was a pioneer in the development of armored warfare, and was the leading proponent of tanks and mechanization in the Wehrmacht . Germany's panzer forces were raised and organized under his direction as Chief of Mobile Forces...
  
  , World War II German general
• "Fearless Freddy" — Frederick W. Warder, U.S. ace submarine commander (a nickname he detested)
• "The Fighting Bishop" — Leonidas Polk
  Leonidas Polk
  Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk...
  
  , Episcopal bishop and Confederate general
• "Fighting Bob" - Robley Dunglison Evans
  Robley Dunglison Evans
  Robley Dunglison Evans was born in Floyd County, Virginia served in the United States Navy from the American Civil War to the Spanish-American War, attaining the rank of rear admiral...
  
  , US Navy admiral
• "Fighting Dick" —
  • Richard H. Anderson
    Richard H. Anderson
    Richard Heron Anderson was a career U.S. Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican-American War. He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War, fighting in the Eastern Theater of the conflict and most notably during the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...
    
    , Confederate general
  • Israel B. Richardson
    Israel B. Richardson
    Israel Bush Richardson was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was a major general in the Union Army...
    
    , Union General
• "Fighting Joe" —
  • Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although he served throughout the war, usually with distinction, Hooker is best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E...
    
    , U.S. general
  • Joseph Wheeler
    Joseph Wheeler
    Joseph Wheeler was an American military commander and politician. He has the rare distinction of serving as a general during war time for two opposing forces: first as a noted cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and later as a general in the...
    
    , Confederate general
• "The Fighting Quaker" — Smedley Butler
  Smedley Butler
  Smedley Darlington Butler was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Foul Weather Jack" – Vice-Admiral John Byron
  John Byron
  Vice Admiral The Hon. John Byron, RN was a Royal Navy officer. He was known as Foul-weather Jack because of his frequent bad luck with weather.-Early career:...
  
   RN, British admiral of the 18th century
• "Fritz" — Frederick J. Harlfinger II, U.S. submarine commander
• "Frog" — Francis S. Low, U.S. Navy intelligence officer
• "Fuel Oil" — Franklin O. Johnsonn, U.S. submarine commander
• "Fuzzy" — Robert A. Theobald
  Robert Alfred Theobald
  Robert Alfred Theobald , nicknamed "Fuzzy", was a United States rear admiral who served in World War I and World War II, and was the author of the 1954 book The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Background of the Pearl Harbor Attack.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, Theobald...
  
  , U.S. admiral

G

• "Gabby" — Francis Gabreski, U.S. Army Air Force fighter ace
  Fighter Ace
  Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
  
  
• "Gee" — Leonard Gerow, U.S. general
• "Gentleman Johnny" — John Burgoyne
  John Burgoyne
  General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....
  
  , British general
• "The G.I. General" — Omar Bradley
  Omar Bradley
  Omar Nelson Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Gin" —
  • Charles W. Styer, U.S. ace submarine commander
  • William Stovall, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
• "Ginger" —
  • W. H. D. Boyle
    William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork
    Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, 12th Earl of Orrery GCB GCVO RN was a career Royal Navy officer who had achieved the rank of full Admiral before succeeding a cousin in 1934 to the family titles, chief of which is Earl of Cork...
    
    , British admiral
  • James Lacey
    James Harry Lacey
    Squadron Leader James Harry "Ginger" Lacey DFM & Bar was one of the top scoring Royal Air Force fighter pilots of the Second World War and was the second highest scoring British RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain, behind P/O Eric Lock of No. 41 Squadron RAF...
    
    , British fighter ace
• "Gnu" — Andrew D. Mayer, U.S. Navy officer
• "Granny" —
  • Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee
    Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
    
    , Confederate general
  • Elwell Stephen Otis
    Elwell Stephen Otis
    Elwell Stephen Otis was a United States of America General who served in the Philippines late in the Spanish-American War and during the Philippine-American War.-Biography:...
    
    , U.S. general
• "Gravedigger" — Sir Henry Havelock
  Henry Havelock
  Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, KCB was a British general who is particularly associated with India. He was noted for his recapture of Cawnpore from rebels during Indian Rebellion of 1857.-Early life:...
  
  , British general, recaptured Cawnpore during The Indian Mutiny.
• "Grey Fox" — George Crook
  George Crook
  George R. Crook was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.-Early life:...
  
   US Army General
• "Grumble" — William E. Jones
  William E. Jones
  William Edmondson Jones, known as Grumble Jones, was a planter, a career United States Army officer, and a Confederate cavalry general, killed in the Battle of Piedmont in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Guts and Gaiters" – Sir Arthur Currie
  Arthur Currie
  Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB , was a Canadian general during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the...
  
  , Canadian general in World War I

H

• "Ham" — Wesley A. Wright, U.S. intelligence officer
• The "Hammer" —
  • Judah the Hammer
    Judas Maccabeus
    Judah Maccabee was a Kohen and a son of the Jewish priest Mattathias...
    
    , Jewish Rebel commander in the Maccabean Revolt.
  • Charles Martel
    Charles Martel
    Charles Martel , also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks. In 739 he was offered the...
    
    , Frankish
    Franks
    The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
    
     commander at the Battle of Tours
    Battle of Tours
    The Battle of Tours , also called the Battle of Poitiers and in Battle of the Court of the Martyrs, was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, located in north-central France, near the village of Moussais-la-Bataille, about northeast of Poitiers...
    
    .
• "Hammerhead" — John C. Martin
  John C. Martin
  John Charles Martin is an American judge, currently Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.Born in Durham, North Carolina, Martin earned an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in 1965 and his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1967...
  
  , U.S. submarine commander
• "Hap" —
  • Henry H. Arnold
    Henry H. Arnold
    Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold was an American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and later General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps , Commanding General of the U.S...
    
    , USAAF/USAF General of the Air Force.
  • Hobart R. Gay
    Hobart R. Gay
    Lieutenant General Hobart Raymond Gay , nicknamed "Hap", was a United States Army general.-Early military career:...
    
    , U.S. Army officer, Patton
    George S. Patton
    George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...
    
    's Chief of Staff
  • Hyland B. Lyon, U.S. submarine commander
• "le Hardi" (French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  , the bold) — William Douglas, Scottish
  Scotland
  Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
  
   freedom fighter
• "Harry Hotspur" — Sir Henry Percy
  Henry Percy
  Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur KG was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick. His mother was Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice de Audley. His nickname, 'Hotspur', is suggestive of his impulsive...
  
  , English soldier and rebel
• "Hell Roaring Jake" — Jacob H. Smith
  Jacob H. Smith
  General Jacob Hurd Smith was a United States Army officer best known for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during Philippine-American War after more than forty American soldiers were massacred in a surprise attack on the Island of Samar...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Hell Roaring Mike" — Michael Healy, U.S. Revenue Cutter Service Captain
• "The Hero of Gallipoli" — Wehib Pasha
  Mehmet Vehib Kaçi
  Vehib Pasha also known as Wehib Pasha, Vehip Pasha, Mehmed Wehib Pasha, Mehmet Vehip Pasha , was a general in the Ottoman Army. He fought in the Balkan Wars and in several theatres of World War I...
  
  , Turkish General
• "Hero of the Nile" — Horatio, Viscount Nelson, British admiral
• "He-who-sees-in-the-dark" — Frederick Russell Burnham
  Frederick Russell Burnham
  Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.Burnham...
  
  , U.S. scout; British major, Chief of Scouts; father of international scouting movement.
• "Hobo" — Percy Hobart
  Percy Hobart
  Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart KBE CB DSO MC , also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer, noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II...
  
  , British general and tank warfare proponent
• "Honest John" — John Leitweiler, U.S. intelligence officer
• "Horny" — Roza Shanina
  Roza Shanina
  Roza Yegorovna Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 54 confirmed kills, including 12 snipers during the Battle of Vilnius. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of firing precise semi-automatic shots on moving enemy manpower...
  
  , Soviet sniper
• "Howling Jake" — Jacob H. Smith
  Jacob H. Smith
  General Jacob Hurd Smith was a United States Army officer best known for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during Philippine-American War after more than forty American soldiers were massacred in a surprise attack on the Island of Samar...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Howling Mad" — Holland M. Smith, U.S. Marine Corps general
• "Hunter-Bunter" — Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ was a British Army general who served in World War I at Gallipoli and the Somme Offensive...
  
  , British General
• "Hutch" — Damon W. Cooper, US Navy Vice Admiral
  Vice admiral (United States)
  In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, and the United States Maritime Service, vice admiral is a three-star flag officer, with the pay grade of...
  
  , Aviator
  United States Naval Aviator
  A United States Naval Aviator is a qualified pilot in the United States Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard.-Naming Conventions:Most Naval Aviators are Unrestricted Line Officers; however, a small number of Limited Duty Officers and Chief Warrant Officers are also trained as Naval Aviators.Until 1981...
  
  , and first Chief of Naval Reserve

I

• "Ike" —
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
    
    , U.S. general
  • Arnold H. Holz, U.S. submarine commander
  • William R. Wilson, U.S. submarine officer
• "Irish" — Edward R. Hannon, U.S. submarine commander
• "Ishkhan"— Nikoghayos Poghos Mikaelian
  Nikoghayos Poghos Mikaelian
  Nikoghayos Poghos Mikaelian , also known as "Ishkhan" was an active leader of the Armenian self-defensive movement. He has defended the interests of the Armenians of Van, has given an impetus to education. He was killed during the Siege of Van....
  
  , Armenia
  Armenia
  Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
  
  n freedom fighter

J

• "Jack" — Leif J. Sverdrup
  Leif J. Sverdrup
  Leif Johan Sverdrup was a Norwegian born, American civil engineer and general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the first half of the 20th century...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Jackie" — J. A. Fisher, British admiral
• "Jake" — John K. Fyfe, U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Jasper" — Wilfrid J. Holmes, U.S. Navy intelligence officer
• "Jimmy" — John S. Thach
  John Thach
  John Smith "Jimmy" Thach was a World War II naval aviator, air combat tactician, and United States Navy admiral. Thach developed the Thach Weave, a combat flight formation that could counter enemy fighters of superior performance, and later the big blue blanket, an aerial defense against Kamikaze...
  
  , U.S. Navy fighter ace
  Fighter Ace
  Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
  
  
• "Jock" — J. C. Campbell
  John Charles Campbell
  Major-General John Charles "Jock" Campbell VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a Scottish officer in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross.-History:Campbell was born in Thurso...
  
  , British Army general
• "Joe" — Elton W. Grenfell, U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Johnnie" — James E. Johnson
  Johnnie Johnson
  Johnnie Johnson may refer to:*Johnnie Johnson *Johnnie Johnson *Johnnie Johnson See also:*Johnny Johnson *John Johnson...
  
  , British Royal Air Force fighter ace
• "Johnny" —
  • W. E. P. Johnson
    Johnny Johnson
    Johnny Johnson may refer to:* Johnnie Johnson , RAF pilot* Johnny Johnson , Major League pitcher* Johnny Johnson , American football player* Johnny Johnson , a musical by Kurt Weill...
    
    , British Royal Air Force flight instructor
  • Frederick J. Walker, World War II British ace ASW destroyer task force commander
• "Judge" — Ernest M. Eller
  Ernest M. Eller
  Ernest McNeill Eller was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1956 to 1970.-Early Life and education:...
  
  , U.S. Navy admiral
• "Jumbo" — H. M. Wilson
  Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
  Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO , also known as "Jumbo" Wilson, saw active service in the Second Boer War and First World War, and became a senior British general in the Middle East and Mediterranean during the Second World War...
  
  , World War II British Army general.
• "Jumpin' Jim" – James M. Gavin
  James M. Gavin
  James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin was a prominent Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II...
  
  , U.S. paratroop
  Paratrooper
  Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force.Paratroopers are used for tactical advantage as they can be inserted into the battlefield from the air, thereby allowing them to be positioned in areas not accessible by land...
  
   general
• "The Jumping General" – James M. Gavin
  James M. Gavin
  James Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin was a prominent Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II...
  
  , U.S. paratroop
  Paratrooper
  Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force.Paratroopers are used for tactical advantage as they can be inserted into the battlefield from the air, thereby allowing them to be positioned in areas not accessible by land...
  
   general
• "Junior" — John S. McCain, Jr.
  John S. McCain, Jr.
  John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. was a United States Navy admiral, who served in conflicts from the 1940s through the 1970s, including as the Commander, United States Pacific Command....
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander (son of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr.
  John S. McCain, Sr.
  John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II....
  
  ; father of Vietnam POW & U.S. Senator John S. McCain III
  John McCain
  John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
  
  ; a nickname he disliked)

K

• "Kalfie" — Henry J. Martin, South African Air Force officer
• "Killer" — Clive Caldwell
  Clive Caldwell
  Group Captain Clive Robertson Caldwell DSO, DFC & Bar was the leading Australian air ace of World War II. He is officially credited with shooting down 28.5 enemy aircraft in over 300 operational sorties. In addition to his official score, he has been ascribed six probables and 15 damaged...
  
  , Australian fighter ace
• "Kipper" — Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
  Kodandera Madappa Cariappa
  Field Marshal Kodandera "Kipper" Madappa Cariappa OBE was the first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army and led the Indian forces on the Western Front during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947.He is among only two Indian Army officers to hold the highest rank of Field Marshal Field Marshal...
  
  , Field Marshal, Indian Army
• "King Billy" - King William III of England
• "King Kong" — Hara Chuichi
  Chuichi Hara
  -External links:*...
  
  , Japanese Navy admiral
• "King of Scouts" — Frederick Russell Burnham
  Frederick Russell Burnham
  Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.Burnham...
  
  , British major, Chief of Scouts & father of international scouting movement.

L

• "Lakeitel (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  , "lackey") - Wilhelm Keitel
  Wilhelm Keitel
  Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal . As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II...
  
  , German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   World War II general staff officer
• "Lighthorse Harry" — Henry Lee III, U.S. general
• "Lightning Joe" — J. Lawton Collins
  J. Lawton Collins
  Joseph "Lightning Joe" Lawton Collins was a General in the United States Army. During World War II, he served in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. His elder brother, James Lawton Collins, was also in the army as a Major General...
  
  , American general
• "The Lion" - Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of , the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner...
  
  , German
  Germans
  The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
  
   admiral
• "The Lionheart" - King Richard I of England, Christian commander in the Third Crusade
  Third Crusade
  The Third Crusade , also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin...
  
  
• "The Lion of Panjshir" - Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan
  Afghanistan
  Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
  
   guerilla leader
• "Lion of the West" - Koos de la Rey
  Koos de la Rey
  General Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey , known as Koos de la Rey, was a Boer general during the Second Boer War and is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders during that conflict....
  
  , Boer
  Boer
  Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...
  
   general
• "Lion of West Transvaal" - Koos de la Rey
  Koos de la Rey
  General Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey , known as Koos de la Rey, was a Boer general during the Second Boer War and is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders during that conflict....
  
  , Boer
  Boer
  Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...
  
   general
• "Little Billy" —
  • William Mahone
    William Mahone
    William Mahone was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Small of stature, he was nicknamed "Little Billy"....
    
    , Confederate general
  • James, Earl Cardigan, British general
• "The Little Corporal" — Napoleon Bonaparte, 19th-century French field marshal and emperor
• "Little Texas" - Audie Murphy
  Audie Murphy
  Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
  
  , World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, used only by his close friends.
• "Little Mac" - George B. McClellan
  George B. McClellan
  George Brinton McClellan was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union...
  
  , commander of the Union Army
  Union Army
  The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
  
  
• "Lucky" - Eugene B. Fluckey
  Eugene B. Fluckey
  Rear Admiral Eugene Bennett Fluckey , nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", was a United States Navy submarine commander who received the Medal of Honor during World War II.-Early life and career:...
  
  , U.S. WWII submarine commander and Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   recipient

M

• "Mad Anthony" — Anthony Wayne
  Anthony Wayne
  Anthony Wayne was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony.-Early...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Mad Jack" - Jack Churchill
  Jack Churchill
  Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Jack" Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar , nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", was a British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows and a claymore...
  
  , British Colonel in World War II
• "Mad Mike" —
  • Mike Calvert
    Mike Calvert
    James Michael Calvert DSO and Bar was a British soldier involved in special operations in World War II. The degree to which he led very risky attacks in person led to his becoming widely known as "Mad Mike". Calvert was court-martialled and dismissed from the Army in 1952...
    
    , British brigadier
  • Mike Hoare
    Mike Hoare
    Thomas Michael Hoare is an Irish mercenary leader known for military activities in Africa and his failed attempt to conduct a coup d'état in the Seychelles.-Early life and military career:...
    
    , British officer and mercenary leader
• "Majoren" (Norwegian
  Norwegian language
  Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
  
  , "The Major") - Hans Reidar Holtermann
  Hans Reidar Holtermann
  Hans Reidar Holtermann was a Norwegian military officer. Holtermann is best known as the commander of Hegra Fortress during the Battle of Hegra Fortress in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940....
  
  , Norwegian World War II military leader
• "Manila John" - John Basilone
  John Basilone
  John Basilone was a United States Marine Gunnery Sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II...
  
  , United States Marine, World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
• "The Marble Man" — Robert E. Lee
  Robert E. Lee
  Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
  
  , Confederate general (for his perfection at West Point)
• "The Marble Model" — Robert E. Lee
  Robert E. Lee
  Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
  
  , Confederate general (for his perfection at West Point)
• "Maryland Stuart" — George H. Stewart, Confederate general
• ``Meagher of the Sword-Thomas Francis Meagher,Commander of the Irish Brigade during the American Civil War
• "Mick" — Edward Mannock
  Edward Mannock
  Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC, DSO and Two Bars, MC & Bar was a British First World War flying ace. Mannock was probably born in Ireland, though of English and Scottish parentage....
  
  , World War I British fighter ace
• "Mickey" — David Marcus, American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   colonel who trained the nascent Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  i Army
• "Mike" — Frank W. Fenno, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
• "Mokka"—Mordechi Limon, Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  i Admiral
  Admiral
  Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...
  
  
• "Moke" — William J. Millican, U.S. submarine commander
• "Monk" — Benjamin Dickson, U.S. intelligence officer
• "The Monster" — Jacob H. Smith
  Jacob H. Smith
  General Jacob Hurd Smith was a United States Army officer best known for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during Philippine-American War after more than forty American soldiers were massacred in a surprise attack on the Island of Samar...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Monty" — Bernard Montgomery, World War II British field marshal
• "Moon" — Wreford G. Chapple, World War II U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Mush" (from "Mushmouth") — Dudley W. Morton
  Dudley W. Morton
  Dudley Walker Morton was a submarine commander of the United States Navy during World War II. He was commander of during its third through seventh patrols. Wahoo was one of the most-celebrated submarines of World War II, sinking at least 19 Japanese ships, more than any other submarine of the time...
  
  , World War II U.S. ace submarine commander (for his Tennessee drawl)
• "Mushmouth" — Dudley W. Morton
  Dudley W. Morton
  Dudley Walker Morton was a submarine commander of the United States Navy during World War II. He was commander of during its third through seventh patrols. Wahoo was one of the most-celebrated submarines of World War II, sinking at least 19 Japanese ships, more than any other submarine of the time...
  
  , World War II U.S. ace submarine commander (for his Tennessee drawl)
• "Mustapha" — Husband E. Kimmel
  Husband E. Kimmel
  Husband Edward Kimmel was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy. He served as Commander-in-chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Because of the attack, he was removed from office and was reduced to his permanent two-star rank of rear admiral...
  
  , CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor
  Attack on Pearl Harbor
  The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...
  
   7 December 1941

N

• "Ned" — Edward L. Beach, Jr.
  Edward L. Beach, Jr.
  Edward Latimer Beach, Jr. was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author....
  
  , World War II U.S. submarine commander & writer
• "Nick" — George D. Wallace
  George D. Wallace
  George Dewey Wallace was an American stage and screen actor.Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical Jennie and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in New Girl in Town opposite Gwen Verdon...
  
  , U.S. cavalry officer
• "Nigger Jack" — John J. Pershing
  John J. Pershing
  John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB , was a general officer in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I...
  
  , U.S. general (pejorative, for his command of black troops; now considered offensive)

O

• "Oklahoma Pete" – Marc Mitscher
  Marc Mitscher
  Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific in the latter half of World War II.-Early life and career:...
  
  , American World War Two Admiral
• "Ol' Blood and Guts" — George S. Patton
  George S. Patton
  George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from...
  
  , World War II U.S. general (a nickname he rejected)
• "Ol' Fuss and Feathers" - Winfield Scott
  Winfield Scott
  Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852....
  
  , U.S. Army general
• "Old Dutch" — Edward C. Kalbfus
  Edward C. Kalbfus
  Admiral Edward Clifford Kalbfus , nicknamed "Old Dutch", was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who was commander of the Battle Force of the United States Fleet from 1938 to 1939 and President of the Naval War College from 1934 to 1936 and 1939 to 1942.-Early career:He was born in Mauch...
  
  , American Admiral
• "Old Flintlock" — Roger Hanson
  Roger Hanson
  Roger Weightman Hanson was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The commander of the famed "Orphan Brigade," he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro. He was nicknamed "Old Flintlock."-Early life:Hanson was born in Clark County, Kentucky...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Old Gimlet Eye" — Smedley Butler
  Smedley Butler
  Smedley Darlington Butler was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, an outspoken critic of U.S. military adventurism, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S...
  
  , U.S. general
• "Old Hickory" - Andrew Jackson
  Andrew Jackson
  Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...
  
  , U.S. general and President
• "Old Jube" — Jubal Early, Confederate general
• "Old Jubilee" — Jubal Early, Confederate general
• "Old Mac" - James McCudden
  James McCudden
  James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  , British World War I fighter ace
• "Old Pap" — Sterling Price
  Sterling Price
  Sterling Price was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Old Reliable" — George H. Thomas
  George Henry Thomas
  George Henry Thomas was a career United States Army officer and a Union General during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater....
  
  , Union general
• "Old Rock" — Henry L. Benning
  Henry L. Benning
  Henry Lewis Benning was a lawyer, legislator, judge on the Georgia Supreme Court, and a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is also noted for the U.S...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Old Stars"-- Ormsby M. Mitchel
  Ormsby M. Mitchel
  Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel was an American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War....
  
  , Union general
• "Old Wooden Head" — John Bell Hood
  John Bell Hood
  John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Hood had a reputation for bravery and aggressiveness that sometimes bordered on recklessness...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Ozzie" — Richard B. Lynch, U.S. submarine officer

P

• "Pa" — Edwin M. Watson, American General
• "Pacifier of Libya" (Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  , Pacificatore della Libia) — Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani
  Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli , was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II.-Rise to prominence:...
  
  , Italian Army General
• "Paddy" —
  • Brendan Finucane, World War II Irish RAF fighter ace
  • Hugh Gough
    Hugh Gough
    Hugh Gough may refer to:*Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough *Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough*Hugh Gough, 4th Viscount Gough*Hugh Henry Gough , British general*Hugh Gough , 7th Archbishop of Sydney, 1959–1966...
    
    , 19th Century British Army general
  • W. H. Harbison
    William Harbison
    -Post-Korean War:After completing his tour in Korea, Harbison was once again flying the F-86 as commander of No. 67 Squadron of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force at RAF Wildenrath in West Germany. In 1956, he returned home to attend the Army Staff College at Camberley, Surrey...
    
    , British RAF officer
• "The Panther Man" (Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  , L'uomo pantera) — Achille Starace
  Achille Starace
  Achille Starace was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy prior to and during World War II.-Early life and career:Starace was born in Gallipoli in southern Italy near Lecce. He was son of a wine and oil merchant....
  
  , Italian Army Major General
  Major General
  Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
  
  , Blackshirt, and Fascist party leader
• "Papa" — Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Joffre
  Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM was a French general during World War I. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. His popularity led to his nickname Papa Joffre.-Biography:Joffre was born in...
  
  , World War I French marechal
• "Pappy" —
  • Greg Boyington, World War II U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace
  • Paul Gunn
    Paul Gunn
    Colonel Paul I. "Pappy" Gunn was a former U.S.naval aviator known most for his actions in the Second World War as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces...
    
    , World War II U.S. Army Air Force bomber pilot
• "Pappa Dönitz" - Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz
  Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of , the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner...
  
  , German
  Germans
  The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
  
   admiral
• "Pat" — J. Loy Maloney, U.S. submarine commander
• "Peaches" — David Petraeus
  David Petraeus
  David Howell Petraeus is the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, sworn in on September 6, 2011. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus was a four-star general serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander...
  
   General, United States Army
• "Pete" —
  • Lloyd M. Bucher
    Lloyd M. Bucher
    Commander Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher was an officer in the United States Navy, who is best remembered as the Captain of the USS Pueblo , which was captured on January 23, 1968 by North Korea....
    
    , U.S. submariner and commanding officer of Pueblo
    USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
    USS Pueblo is an American ELINT and SIGINT Banner-class technical research ship which was boarded and captured by North Korean forces on January 23, 1968, in what is known as the Pueblo incident or alternatively as the Pueblo crisis or the Pueblo affair. Occurring less than a week after President...
    
    
  • William E. Ferrall, U.S. submarine commander
  • Ignatius J. Galantin
    Ignatius J. Galantin
    Ignatius Joseph "Pete" Galantin was a four star United States Navy admiral, World War II Navy Cross recipient, and the first commander of the Naval Material Command.-Early career:...
    
    , U.S. submarine commander
  • Marc Mitscher
    Marc Mitscher
    Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific in the latter half of World War II.-Early life and career:...
    
    , World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
    
     U.S. carrier
    Aircraft carrier
    An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
    
      admiral
• "Petit Rouge" — Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...
  
  , German fighter ace
• "Pi" — Herman A. Piczentkowski, U.S. submarine commander
• "Pied Piper of Saipan" - Guy Gabaldon
  Guy Gabaldon
  PFC Guy Louis Gabaldon was a United States Marine who was credited with capturing about 1,500 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the Battle of Saipan in World War II...
  
  , U.S. Marine PFC
  Private First Class
  Private First Class is a military rank held by junior enlisted persons.- Singapore :The rank of Private First Class in the Singapore Armed Forces lies between the ranks of Private and Lance-Corporal . It is usually held by conscript soldiers midway through their national service term...
  
  , single-handedly talked an entire battalion of Japanese troops to surrender.
• "Pilly" — Willis A. Lent, U.S. submarine commander
• "Ping" — Theodore S. Wilkinson
  Theodore S. Wilkinson
  Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson was a Vice-Admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. He also received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Veracruz, Mexico.-Early life and career:...
  
  , U.S. Navy Admiral and commander of ONI
  Office of Naval Intelligence
  The Office of Naval Intelligence was established in the United States Navy in 1882. ONI was established to "seek out and report" on the advancements in other nations' navies. Its headquarters are at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, Maryland...
  
  
• "Pinky" — Marvin G. Kennedy, U.S. Navy submarine and destroyer commander
• "Pip" — G. P. B. Roberts
  George Philip Bradley Roberts
  Major-General George Philip Bradley Roberts CB, DSO, MC, , better known as "Pip", was a British commander of an armoured division during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
  , British general
• "Poco" — William W. Smith, U.S. Navy officer (Kimmel's Chief of Staff)
• "Poet General" — Masaharu Homma
  Masaharu Homma
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...
  
  , Imperial Japanese Army general known for his invasion of the Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  .
• "Pompey" — Harold Edward Elliott
  Harold Edward Elliott
  Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD was a senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War. Elliot also served as a Senator in the Australian parliament.-Early life:...
  
  , World War I Australian general
• "Popski" — Vladimir Peniakoff
  Vladimir Peniakoff
  Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC , nicknamed "Popski", was the founder and commanding officer of "Popski's Private Army".- Early life :Vladimir Peniakoff was born in Belgium to Russian parents...
  
  , Belgian-born commando in British service in World War II
• "Prince John" — John B. Magruder
  John B. Magruder
  John Bankhead Magruder was a career military officer who served in the armies of three nations. He was a U.S. Army officer in the Mexican-American War, a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and a postbellum general in the Imperial Mexican Army...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Pritzl" — Heinz Bär, German fighter ace

Q

• "Quex" — H. F. P. Sinclair
  Hugh Sinclair
  Admiral Sir Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair KCB , nicknamed "Quex", was a British intelligence officer. Between 1919 and 1921, he was Director of British Naval Intelligence, and helped to set up the Secret Intelligence Service before the Second World War.-Career:Sinclair joined the Royal Navy in the...
  
  , British admiral and head of SIS
  Secret Intelligence Service
  The Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...
  
  

R

• "Rebel" — Vernon L. Lowrance, U.S. ace submarine commander
• "Red" —
  • James W. Coe, World War II U.S. ace submarine commander
  • Walter E. Doyle, U.S. submarine commander
  • Ralph C. Lynch, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
  • William F. Raborn, U.S. Admiral and Director of the CIA
  • Lawson P. Ramage
    Lawson P. Ramage
    Lawson Paterson "Red" Ramage was a vice admiral in the United States Navy and a noted submarine commander. During his career, Ramage was decorated with the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, two Distinguished Service Medals, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star.-Early life and career:Taking his...
    
    , U.S. ace submarine commander
  • Douglas N. Syverson, U.S. submarine officer
• "The Red Baron" (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  , der Rote Baron) — Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...
  
  , German fighter ace
  Fighter Ace
  Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
  
  
• "The Red Battle-flyer" (German: "der rote Kampfflieger") — Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...
  
  , German fighter ace
  Fighter Ace
  Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
  
  
• "The Red Knight" — Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred von Richthofen
  Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...
  
  , German fighter ace
• "Red Mike" — Merritt A. Edson
  Merritt A. Edson
  Major General Merritt Austin Edson , known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received was the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions of Merit...
  
  , World War II U.S. commando officer (commanding 2nd Marine Raider Battalion)
• "Reeste" — Heinz Bär, German fighter ace
• "Reggie" — Harry George Smart
  Harry George Smart
  Harry George Smart, CBE, DFC, AFC, is best known as the commander of RAF Habbaniya during the first part of the Anglo-Iraqi War. Smart was a British officer in the British Army, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the Royal Air Force...
  
  , British Vice Air Marshal
• "Rooney" — William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
  William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
  William Henry Fitzhugh Lee , known as Rooney Lee or W.H.F. Lee, was the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. He was a planter, a Confederate cavalry General in the American Civil War, and later a member of the U.S. Congress.-Early life:Lee was born at Arlington House in...
  
  , Confederate general and U.S. Congressman
• "Rosey" — Redfield Mason, U.S. cryptanalyst
• "Rough and Ready" - Zachary Taylor
  Zachary Taylor
  Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor nonetheless ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass...
  
  , U.S. Army general
• "Rum" — John M. Jones
  John M. Jones
  John Marshall Jones was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and was killed in action at the Battle of the Wilderness.-Early life:...
  
  , Confederate general

S

• "Sergeant J" - Unknown US Army Sniper, (1983-2007 had 88 confirmed kills during O.I.F. and O.E.F)
• "The Saint" — Augustus R. St. Angelo, U.S. submarine officer
• "Sailor" — Adolph G. Malan, British fighter ace
• "Sailor King" — King William IV of Great Britain
  Great Britain
  Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
  
   (due to service in the Royal Navy)
• "Sally" — James J. Archer
  James J. Archer
  James Jay Archer was a lawyer and an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and he later served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
  
  , Confederate general
• "Sam Bahadur" — Sam Manekshaw
  Sam Manekshaw
  Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC "Sam Bahadur" was a Field Marshal of the Indian Army. His distinguished military career spanned four decades and five wars...
  
  , RTD. Field Marshal of Indian Army
• "Sandy" — Louis D. McGregor, U.S. submarine commander
• "Savvy" —
  • Charles M. Cooke, Jr.
    Charles M. Cooke, Jr.
    Admiral Charles Maynard Cooke, Jr., USN, was a United States Navy four star admiral who served as Commander, United States Seventh Fleet from 1946 to 1947; and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Western Pacific from 1947 to 1948....
    
    , World War II U.S. sailor
  • Leon J. Huffman, U.S. submarine commander
  • Charles W. Read, U.S. Federal and Confederate naval officer
• "Schneller Heinz" (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  , '"Hurrying Heinz") — Heinz Guderian
  Heinz Guderian
  Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German general during World War II. He was a pioneer in the development of armored warfare, and was the leading proponent of tanks and mechanization in the Wehrmacht . Germany's panzer forces were raised and organized under his direction as Chief of Mobile Forces...
  
  , World War II German panzer
  Tank
  A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility, tactical offensive, and defensive capabilities...
  
   general
• "Seminole" — Edmund Kirby Smith
  Edmund Kirby Smith
  Edmund Kirby Smith was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederacy after the fall of Vicksburg.After the conflict ended Smith...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Shagger" — Johnny Johnstone, World War II British pilot
• "Shorty" —
  • Charles D. Edmunds, U.S. submarine commander
  • Robert H. Soule, U.S. 3rd Infantry Division Commander Aug 1950 – Oct 1951
• "Shy" — Edward C. Meyer
  Edward C. Meyer
  Edward Charles "Shy" Meyer was a United States Army general and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.-Early Life and Career:...
  
  , Retired United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   general
  General
  A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
  
   and former Chief of Staff
  Chief of Staff
  The title, chief of staff, identifies the leader of a complex organization, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a Principal Staff Officer , who is the coordinator of the supporting staff or a primary aide to an important individual, such as a president.In general, a chief of...
  
   of the U.S. Army.
• "Silent Otto" — Otto Kretschmer
  Otto Kretschmer
  Flotilla Admiral Otto Kretschmer was a German U-boat commander in the Second World War and later an admiral in the Bundesmarine. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships, a total of 274,333 tons. For this he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak...
  
  , World War II German ace submarine commander
• "Skinny" — Francis W. Rockwell
  Francis W. Rockwell (admiral)
  Francis Warren Rockwell was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy who served from 1908 to 1948.-Early life and career:...
  
  , U.S. Navy admiral
• "Slew" — John S. McCain, Sr.
  John S. McCain, Sr.
  John Sidney "Slew" McCain Sr. was a U.S. Navy admiral. He held several command assignments during the Pacific campaign of World War II....
  
  , World War II U.S. admiral and aviator
• "Smiling Albert" — Albert Kesselring
  Albert Kesselring
  Albert Kesselring was a German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. In a military career that spanned both World Wars, Kesselring became one of Nazi Germany's most skilful commanders, being one of 27 soldiers awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords...
  
  , World War II German Luftwaffe
  Luftwaffe
  Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
  
  Field Marshal.
• "Smitty" — John S. McCain, Jr.
  John S. McCain, Jr.
  John Sidney "Jack" McCain Jr. was a United States Navy admiral, who served in conflicts from the 1940s through the 1970s, including as the Commander, United States Pacific Command....
  
  , Vietnam War U.S. admiral
• "Soarer" – David G. M. Campbell
  David Campbell (British Army officer)
  General Sir David Graham Muschet "Soarer" Campbell GCB was a cavalry officer of the British Army, amateur sportsman, and later Governor of Malta....
  
   (after winning the 1896 Grand National on a horse called "Soarer")
• "Soupy" — James H. Campbell, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Spanky" — George Roberts
  George Roberts
  George Roberts may refer to:*George Roberts , American trombonist*George Brooke Roberts , civil engineer*George E. Roberts , Director of the U.S. Mint*George Henry Roberts , British Labour MP, Minister of Labour...
  
  , commander of the 99th Fighter Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen
  Tuskegee Airmen
  The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps....
  
  )
• "Speed" — John P. Currie, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Spig" — Frank W. Wead
  Frank Wead
  Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.-Military service:A 1916 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Wead began to promote Naval Aviation after World War...
  
  , U.S. Navy aviator and screenwriter
• "Spike" —
  • Martin P. Hottel, U.S. submarine commander
  • William H. P. Blandy
    William H. P. Blandy
    William Henry Purnell Blandy , known to friends as "Spike", was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II.-Biography:...
    
    , U.S. Navy admiral
• "Splash" – Edward Ashmore
  Edward Ashmore
  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore GCB, DSC is a former senior Royal Navy officer. He served as the Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom and thus the professional head of the British Armed Forces....
  
  , British air force general
• "Spoons" – Benjamin Butler
  Benjamin Butler
  Benjamin Butler may refer to:*Benjamin Franklin Butler , U.S. lawyer who served as Attorney General, 1833–1838*Benjamin Franklin Butler , U.S. political figure; general in American Civil War; Governor of Massachusetts*Benjamin Butler Painter...
  
  , Union general
• "Spud" — Elbert C. Lindon, U.S. submarine commander
• "Spuds" -Theodore G. Ellyson, U.S. Naval Aviator
• "Stan" — Roderic Dallas
  Roderic Dallas
  Roderic Stanley Dallas DSO, DSC & Bar was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. His score of aerial victories is generally regarded as the second-highest by an Australian, after Robert Little; however there is considerable dispute over Dallas's exact total...
  
  , World War I Australian fighter ace
• "Steam" — Elliott E. Marshall, U.S. submarine commander
• "Stonewall" — Thomas J. Jackson
  Stonewall Jackson
  ຄຽשת״ׇׂׂׂׂ֣|birth_place= Clarksburg, Virginia |death_place=Guinea Station, Virginia|placeofburial=Stonewall Jackson Memorial CemeteryLexington, Virginia|placeofburial_label= Place of burial|image=...
  
  , Confederate general
• "Stoney" — Clifford H. Roper, U.S. submarine commander
• "Stormin' Norman" — Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
  General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf KCB , also known as "Stormin' Norman" and "The Bear", is a retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.-Early life:Schwarzkopf was born in Trenton, New...
  
  , U.S. general (a nickname he disliked)
• "Strafer" — W. H. E. Gott
  William Gott
  Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott CB, CBE, DSO and bar, MC , nicknamed "Strafer", was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general when serving in the British Eighth Army.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School he was...
  
  , British general (from a German propaganda poster, Gott strafe England)
• "Stuffy" — Hugh C. T. Dowding
  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
  Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding GCB, GCVO, CMG was a British officer in the Royal Air Force...
  
  , commander of Fighter Command
  RAF Fighter Command
  RAF Fighter Command was one of three functional commands of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of fighter aircraft. It served throughout the Second World War, gaining recognition in the Battle of Britain. The Command continued until 17 November 1943, when...
  
   during the Battle of Britain
  Battle of Britain
  The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
  
  
• "Sunshine" — Stuart S. Murray
  Stuart S. Murray
  Stuart Shadrick Murray was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy who served during World War II. Born in Delia, Texas he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1919...
  
  , U.S. submarine commander
• "Swanky Syd" – S. T. B. Lawford
  Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford
  Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, KCB was a British Army officer, and the father of movie star Peter Lawford.-Biography:...
  
  , British general (from his penchant for appearing full dress uniform and in the company of beautiful women)
• "The Swamp Fox" — Francis Marion
  Francis Marion
  Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven...
  
  , U.S. general
• "The Swamp Fox of the Confederacy" — M. Jeff Thompson
  M. Jeff Thompson
  Meriwether Jeff Thompson was a brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War. He served the Confederate Army as a cavalry commander, and had the unusual distinction of having a ship in the Confederate Navy named for him.-Early life:*Father: Meriwether Thompson b....
  
  , Confederate general
• "Swede" —
  • Eliot H. Bryant, World War II U.S. submarine commander
  • Charles B. Momsen, World War II U.S. submarine force commander, inventor of the Momsen lung
    Momsen lung
    The Momsen lung was a primitive underwater rebreather used before and during World War II by American submariners as emergency escape gear. The Momsen lung was invented by Charles B. Momsen . Submariners would train in a 100-foot deep escape training tower using this apparatus...
    
    

T

• "Tenacious" — Tanaka Raizo
  Raizo Tanaka
  was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during most of World War II. A specialist in the heavy torpedoes that were carried by all the destroyers and cruisers of the IJN, Tanaka mainly commanded destroyer squadrons, with a cruiser or two attached, and he was the primary leader of the...
  
   World War II Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  ese destroyer admiral (for action in the Solomon Islands
  Solomon Islands
  Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
  
  )
• "Terrible Turner" — R. Kelly Turner
  Richmond K. Turner
  -Footnotes:...
  
  , Admiral USN in World War II
• "The Terror" — Edward Quinan
  Edward Quinan
  General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan KCB, KCIE, DSO, OBE was a British army commander during the Second World War. In the early part of his career, he was involved in Indian Army campaigns in Afghanistan and Waziristan on the North West Frontier of the Indian Empire, also known as the British Raj...
  
  , Indian Army General in World War II
• "The Terror of Morocco" - Aarne Juutilainen
  Aarne Juutilainen
  Aarne Edward Juutilainen , nicknamed "The Terror of Morocco", was a Finnish army captain who served in the French Foreign Legion in Morocco between 1930 and 1935. After returning to Finland, he served in the Finnish army and became a national hero in the Battle of Kollaa during the Winter War with...
  
  , Finnish army captain, who served from 1930 until 1935 in the French Foreign Legion.
• "Tex" —
  • Forrest R. Biard, World War II U.S. submarine commander
  • David Hill, Flying Tigers
    Flying Tigers
    The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The ground crew and headquarters...
    
     fighter ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
    
    
  • Heber H. McLean, U.S. submarine commander
  • Leonard S. Mewhinney, U.S. submarine commander
• "Tiger of Malaya" — Yamashita Tomoyuki
  Tomoyuki Yamashita
  General was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
  
  , World War II Japanese general
• "Tin Legs" - Sir Douglas Bader - WWII RAF Ace
• "Tiny" —
  • Edmund Ironside
    Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
    Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB, CMG, CBE, DSO, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War....
    
    , British Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff
  • Frank C. Lynch, Jr., U.S. submarine commander
• "Tooey" — Carl A. Spaatz, American General, first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• "Tubby" — Arthur Allen
  Arthur Samuel Allen
  Major General Arthur Samuel "Tubby" Allen CB CBE DSO VD was an Australian soldier. During World War II he reached the rank of Major General and commanded Allied forces in the Syria-Lebanon and New Guinea campaigns...
  
  , World War II Australian general
• "Turkey Neck" — George C. Crawford, World War II U.S. submarine commander

U

• "Uncle Bill" — William Slim, British WW II General in Burma
• "Uncle Billy" — William T. Sherman, U.S. Civil War general
• "Uncle Charlie" — Charles A. Lockwood, Jr., World War II U.S. Pacific Fleet Submarine Force commander
• "Uncle Wiggly Wings" — Gail S. Halvorsen
  Gail Halvorsen
  Colonel Gail Halvorsen is a retired career officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force known as the original Candy Bomber or the "Rosinenbomber" in Germany. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah...
  
  , U.S. Air Force officer ^{http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=529&page=209}

V

• "Vati (German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  , "Pappy" or "Daddy") -Werner Mölders
  Werner Mölders
  Werner Mölders was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War. Mölders became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 100 aerial victories—that is, 100 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft, and was...
  
  , German fighter ace
• "Vinegar Joe" — Joseph Stillwell, U.S. general
• "Valkoinen Kuolema" (Finnish
  Finnish language
  Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
  
  , white death) - Simo Häyhä
  Simo Häyhä
  Simo Häyhä , nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish sniper. Using a modified Mosin–Nagant in the Winter War, he has the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills - 505 - in any major war....
  
  , Finish sniper
  Sniper
  A sniper is a marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. Snipers typically have specialized training and distinct high-precision rifles....
  
   in Winter War
  Winter War
  The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...
  
  

W

• "Weary" — Charles W. Wilkins, U.S. submarine commander
• "Weegee" — William G. Brown, World War II U.S. submarine commander
• "Westy" - William Westmoreland
  William Westmoreland
  William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak , during the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army. He later served as...
  
  , Commander of U.S forces during the Vietnam War
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
  .
• "Whiskey" - Andrew Jackson Smith
  Andrew Jackson Smith
  Andrew Jackson Smith was a United States Army general during the American Civil War, rising to the command of a corps. He was most noted for his victory over Confederate General S.D...
  
  , Union Army general
• "The White Tornado" — Adrian Cummins, Royal Australian Navy
  Royal Australian Navy
  The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
  
   Commodore
  Commodore (rank)
  Commodore is a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. Non-English-speaking nations often use the rank of flotilla admiral or counter admiral as an equivalent .It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6, but is not always...
  
  , for his 'whirling' manner
• "Willie" — J. B. Tait
  James Brian Tait
  Group Captain James Brian Tait DSO and three bars, DFC and bar was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II. He conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including those which finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944...
  
  , British aviator
• "Wingy" — James M. L. Renton, British general (for having lost an arm in battle)
• "Wizard of the Saddle" — Nathan Bedford Forrest
  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a self-educated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years...
  
  , Confederate cavalry general
• "Wooch" — Kendall J. Fielder, U.S. Army intelligence officer (Walter Short
  Walter Short
  Walter Campbell Short was a Major General in the United States Army and the U.S. military Commander responsible for the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.-Early life:He was born in 1880 in Fillmore, Illinois...
  
  's G2
  G2
  G2, G02, G.II, G II, or G-2 may refer to:-Media:* G2, The Guardian weekday supplement* Gladiators 2000, 1994 spinoff of American Gladiators-Fiction:...
  
  )
• "Wop" — W. R. May
  Wop May
  Captain Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, OBE, DFC , was a First World War flying ace and a pioneering aviator who created the role of the bush pilot while working the Canadian west....
  
  , Canadian aviator
  Aviator
  An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...
  
  

Y

• "Yurufun" (Japanese
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
  , roughly "droopy drawers") – Shimada Shigetaro
  Shigetaro Shimada
  was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...
  
  , Japanese Admiral in World War II

See also

• Nickname
  Nickname
  A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
  
  

• List of aviators by nickname
• List of basketball nicknames
• List of hockey nicknames
• List of nicknames of European Royalty and Nobility
• List of nicknames of historical personages
• List of monarchs by nickname
• List of sportspeople by nickname
• List of nicknames of United States presidents