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Joseph Stilwell

1883 - 1946

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Joseph Warren "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (19 March 1883 – 12 October 1946) was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India theater during World War II. Stilwell was appointed as Chief of Staff for Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader, and spent the majority of his tenure striving for a 90-division army trained by American troops, using American lend-lease equipment, and fighting to reclaim Burma from the Japanese. His efforts led to friction with Chiang, who viewed troops not under his immediate control as a threat, and who saw the Chinese Communists as a greater rival than Japan. An early American popular hero of the war for leading a column walking out of Burma pursued by the victorious Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, Stilwell's implacable demands for units debilitated by disease to be sent into heavy combat resulted in Merrill's Marauders becoming disenchanted with him. The U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Stilwell is the 920th most popular military personnel (down from 848th in 2019), the 3,136th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,473rd in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph Stilwell ranks 920 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Fritzsch, Ludwig Crüwell, Alphonse Juin, Michael Lippert, Won Gyun, and Heinrich Eberbach. After him are Georg von der Marwitz, Peter Lacy, Sergey Biryuzov, Otto Wöhler, George B. McClellan, and Esmail Ghaani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Stilwell ranks 95. Before him are C. I. Lewis, Jean Metzinger, Katia Mann, Nora Stanton Barney, Sergey Belyavsky, and Eugen Leviné. After him are Dmitry Manuilsky, John Taylor, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Louis Massignon, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, and Nikolaos Plastiras. Among people deceased in 1946, Joseph Stilwell ranks 88. Before him are Teizo Takeuchi, Hans Loritz, Mihai Antonescu, István Bethlen, Benjamin I of Constantinople, and George Arliss. After him are Chen Gongbo, Jorge Ubico, Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Saint Alphonsa, Béla Imrédy, and Robert Heinrich Wagner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Stilwell ranks 3,136 out of 20,380. Before him are Olympia Dukakis (1931), Charles Grodin (1935), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), Paula Abdul (1962), Elihu Root (1845), and Tito Puente (1923). After him are Joseph W. Tobin (1952), Arnold Orville Beckman (1900), Coretta Scott King (1927), Shirley Knight (1936), Kamehameha III (1814), and Lindsay Wagner (1949).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Joseph Stilwell ranks 54. Before him are Doc Holliday (1851), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Joseph Dunford (1955), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), and Frank Jack Fletcher (1885). After him are George B. McClellan (1826), James Bowie (1796), Matthew Ridgway (1895), Frank Serpico (1936), Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (1924), and P. G. T. Beauregard (1818).

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