The second commander of the Military Assistance Command - Vietnam (MACV) was also its most famous, serving in the position during the Tet Offensive of 1968 before being promoted to Army Chief of Staff, although his legacy in Vietnam remains controversial.

One of the most famous figures in the history of American aviation, and the leader of the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan in 1942, Jimmy Doolittle was a pioneer of various flight techniques as well as a skilled and daring pilot.

The commander of the US 9th Army in the Second World War, William Hood Simpson was very popular with his men, fellow officers and allies, gaining accolades from such men as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery.

Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War as well as the leader of the punitive expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa, “Black Jack” Pershing famously refused to allow American troops to be used as replacements in Allied armies, insisting that they remained as their own force.