DBAHC: Obscure figures for use in ATLs?

There's this one US Army staff officer from the 1930's and 1940's I've seen mentioned in a few bios of generals like MacArthur and Marshall. Guy by the name of Eisenhower. By all accounts a very intelligent and brilliant master of organization, but somehow never broke into a command or field position during WW2. Retired after the war in 1946, and wrote a well regarded history of the Civil War battle of Gettysburg which was published in the early 1950's, though.

WI we make Eisenhower President instead of Dewey?
 
I have a better one. That academic turned journalist Hf Verwoerd. Have him come to power in south africa in 58, instead of Dorges, in coalition with Div graaf.
HF wanted to create independent african reserves. How much better we had the Sharpeville agreement which ended separate development over fifteen years
 
There was this Russian aircraft designer Igor Sikorski. Built the world's first large passenger plane, a whopping four engined monster, back in 1910, transformed the design into a strategic bomber in 1914 and ended up building almost a 100 of them by 1917. After the Russian REvolution, he emigrated to the US and started all over with a factory on New York that specialized in seaplanes. Had a string of interesting designs in the 1930's including another four-engined passenger flying boat that really pushed the boundaries of transatlantic air travel. However he never got the hang of building military planes and spent all of WWII making spare parts for C-47's before retiring in 1945. Okay, he was in his 60's by that time, but many other designers stayed on until far into their 70's, so if he wanted, he could have another fruitful decade. Imagine what he could have invented in the 1950's? The first jet airliner? Would make for an interesting AH-timeline.
 
Sort of outside the scope of this, but the Indologist and comparative mythologist J. Robert Oppenheimer had a background in theoretical physics before leaving the field over some strange incident with Linus Pauling's wife. He was an interesting character - one wonders what he'd have ended up working on.
 
I got a old beat up record by a fellow named Jimi Hendrix looked him up I cant find a thing!!

Did he do anything that wasn't with the King Kasuals? Excellent if obscure session musician, if I recall correctly...

Say, have you heard about that incredibly successful South African barrister and author Mohandas Gandhi? Rathe obscure, perhaps it’s be interesting to research the man’s life

Very intriguing choice. Pity he never returned to India: someone who was able to talk the South African government into getting Indians officially categorised as "white" might have had a rather successful political career.
 
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