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I vaguely recall reading somewhere that Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Georgy Zhukov, Erwin Rommel, and Isoroku Yamamoto were the best and most important (and of course, the most well-known) commanders in WWII for their respective states/nations.

However, my knowledge on WWII is rather limited, hence my questions:
1. If we compare them with each other, who was the best? Or the worst?
2. Were there any other commanders who either better or made bigger contributions than them?

Some other famous WWII commanders that I can think of:
United States - Henry H. Arnold, Chester W. Nimitz, George S. Patton
Great Britain - Louis Mountbatten, Archibald Wavell, Orde Wingate
Soviet Union - Vasily Chuikov, Ivan Konev, Konstantin Rokossovsky
Nazi Germany - Albert Kesselring, Erich von Manstein, Gerd von Rundstedt
Imperial Japan - Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Gunichi Mikawa, Chuichi Nagumo

EDIT: should be moved to Political Chat forum, I suppose...
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