List of military figures by nickname

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This is a list of military figures by nickname.

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  • "31-Knot Burke" — Arleigh Burke, U.S. Navy destroyer commander (for being unable to meet his habitual maximum speed)[1]

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  1. ^ a b Jones, Ken (1959). Destroyer Squadron 23 : combat exploits of Arleigh Burke's gallant force. Philadelphia: Chilton Co., Book Division. OCLC 1262893. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck Blair, Clay, Jr. (1975). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN 9780397007530. OCLC 821363. 
  3. ^ Bekker, Cajus. Hitler's Naval War (New York City: Kensington Publishing Corp. {Zebra Books}, 1974; reprints Gerhard Stalling Verlag's 1971 Verdammte See), p.178.
  4. ^ Carver, Michael (1976). The War lords : military commanders of the twentieth century. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 9780297770848. OCLC 2410407. 
  5. ^ a b "No.3: 'Soarer' Campbell". Generals' Nicknames. Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham. January 2009. http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/nicknames/campbell.htm. Retrieved 10 February 2009. 
  6. ^ a b Granatstein, J. L. (2002). Canada's army : waging war and keeping the peace. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802046918. OCLC 48941226. 
  7. ^ Prange, Gordon W.; Donald M Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon (1988). December 7, 1941 : the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 23. ISBN 9780070506824. OCLC 15793660. 
  8. ^ Maclear, Michael. The Ten Thousand Day War (London: Thames/Methuen, 1982), p.94.
  9. ^ Regan, Geoffrey (1993). The Guinness Book of More Military Blunders. Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 9780851127286. OCLC 59946018. 
  10. ^ Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (New York: NEL Mentor, 1967), p.78.
  11. ^ a b Barnett, Correlli (1960). Desert Generals. New York: Ballantine. OCLC 1027319. 
  12. ^ Dupuy, Trevor N., Colonel, United States Army (rtd), editor. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1992), p.633.
  13. ^ Saward, Dudley (1984). "Bomber" Harris : the story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur Harris, Bt, GCB, OBE, AFC, LLD, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Bomber Command, 1942-1945. London: Buchan & Enright. OCLC 11082290. 
  14. ^ a b Johnson, Johnny E. (1964). Full Circle: The Story of Air Fighting. London: Chatto and Windus. OCLC 2486377. 
  15. ^ Erich Hartmann
  16. ^ Alfred Schreiber
  17. ^ Bekker, p.130.
  18. ^ Wikipedia, Lionel Crabb
  19. ^ Hastings, Max (1979). Bomber Command. New York: Dial Press/James Wade. OCLC 5170758. 
  20. ^ "Col. Charlie Beckwith, 65, Dies; Led Failed Rescue Effort in Iran". The New York Times. June 13, 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/14/obituaries/col-charlie-beckwith-65-dies-led-failed-rescue-effort-in-iran.html. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 
  21. ^ Wikipedia, Willis A. Lee
  22. ^ Grady, Alan.When Good Men Do Nothing: The Assassination of Albert Patterson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003).
  23. ^ Bekker, Cajus. Hitler's Naval War (New York City: Kensington Publishing Corp. {Zebra Books}, 1974; reprints Gerhard Stalling Verlag's 1971 Verdammte See), pp.104-5.
  24. ^ Molesworth, Carl (2003). P-40 Warhawk Aces of the Pacific. Oxford: Osprey. pp. 50–54. ISBN 9781841765365. OCLC 51992611. 
  25. ^ 7th Armoured Division Site
  26. ^ Allen, Hubert Raymond "Dizzy" (1974). Who Won the Battle of Britain?. London: Barker. ISBN 9780213164898. OCLC 1092232. 
  27. ^ a b Manchester, William Raymond (1978). American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316544986. OCLC 3844481. 
  28. ^ a b c Beach, Edward L. "Ned", (1952). Submarine!. New York: H. Holt. OCLC 396382. 
  29. ^ Garrison, Webb B. (1992). Civil War trivia and fact book. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN 9781558531604. OCLC 25410905. 
  30. ^ Farago, Ladislas (1962). The Tenth Fleet. New York: Paperback Library. OCLC 11651418. 
  31. ^ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.597
  32. ^ Blair, Clay, Jr. (1975). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott. p. 73. ISBN 9780397007530. OCLC 821363. 
  33. ^ a b c Ken Burns, director (1990). The Civil War. ISBN 9780780638877. OCLC 52791424. 
  34. ^ a b c Holmes, Wilfrid J. (1979). Double-edged secrets : U.S. naval intelligence operations in the Pacific during World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9780870211621. OCLC 5195347. 
  35. ^ Mahan, Alfred T. (1890). The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783. London: Sampson, Low, Marston. OCLC 12225848. 
  36. ^ West, James E.; Peter O. Lamb; illustrated by Lord Baden-Powell (1932). He-who-sees-in-the-dark; the boys' story of Frederick Burnham, the American scout. Brewer, Warren and Putnam. OCLC 1710834. 
  37. ^ Prange. December 7h, 1941?
  38. ^ Brayley, Martin; Ramiro Bujeiro (2001). World War II Allied Women's Services. Osprey Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 1841760536. 
  39. ^ Baumgardner, Randy W.; Tailhook Association. Tailhook Association: Eagles in Flight. Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 1563114038. 
  40. ^ Stockdale, James B.; Sybil Stockdale. In love and war: the story of a family's ordeal and sacrifice during the Vietnam years. Harper & Row. ISBN 0060153180. 
  41. ^ Wikipedia, John Thach
  42. ^ a b Robertson, Terence (1955). The Golden Horseshoe: The Wartime Career of Otto Kretschmer, U-Boat Ace. London: Evans Bros.. OCLC 2162924. 
  43. ^ Holwitt, Joel I. "Execute Against Japan", Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005, p.327.
  44. ^ Keegan, John (2000). Churchill's generals. London: Abacus. ISBN 9780349113173. OCLC 43501320. 
  45. ^ Prange, Gordon W.; Donald M Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon (1988). December 7, 1941 : the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 78. ISBN 9780070506824. OCLC 15793660. 
  46. ^ Davis, Richard Harding (1906). Real Soldiers of Fortune. London: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 853901. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3029. 
  47. ^ a b Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt; Curt Johnson; David L. Bongard (1992). Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062700155. OCLC 25026255. 
  48. ^ Flint Whitlock, Ron Smith, Albert Konetzni. The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945. Penguin Group. p. 355. 
  49. ^ Treneman, Ann (May 5, 1999). "The shaming of a hero". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-shaming-of-a-hero-1091460.html. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 
  50. ^ "1982: Seychelles coup leader guilty of hijack". BBC. July 27, 1982. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/27/newsid_2499000/2499153.stm. Retrieved 2010-06-28. 
  51. ^ "Cast a Giant Shadow" review in VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Guide 2007, ed. by Jim Craddock (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2006), p.168.
  52. ^ Rabinowitch, Abe. The Boats of Cherbourg.
  53. ^ Helfers, John. "Caught Napping, or Hitler's Greatest Gamble", in Fawcett, Bill, ed. How to Lose World War II (New York: Harper 2010), p.216.
  54. ^ Order of Battle - Pearl Harbor - 7 December 1941
  55. ^ Farago, Ladislas (1963). Patton: ordeal and triumph. New York: I. Obolensky. OCLC 405969. 
  56. ^ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.621
  57. ^ Boyington, Gregory (1958). Baa baa, black sheep. New York: Putnam. OCLC 2124961. 
  58. ^ David Petraeus#Personal life
  59. ^ Wikipedia, Lloyd M. Bucher
  60. ^ Wikipedia, Marc Mitscher
  61. ^ Prange, Gordon W.; Donald M Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon (1988). December 7, 1941 : the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 20. ISBN 9780070506824. OCLC 15793660. 
  62. ^ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/peopleevents/p_homma.html
  63. ^ Peniakoff, Vladimir. Popski's Private Army (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1980)
  64. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raborn
  65. ^ a b Deighton, Len (1977). Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Cape. ISBN 9780224014229. OCLC 3388095. 
  66. ^ Newsweek's history of our times, Volume 2 p36
  67. ^ Tuskegee Airmen
  68. ^ Willmott, Hedley Paul (1983). The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific strategies, February to June 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9780870210921. OCLC 9828511. 
  69. ^ Obituary in The Times (London), Tuesday, Nov 15, 1960
  70. ^ James Brian Tait
  71. ^ Prange, Gordon W.; Donald M Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon (1988). December 7, 1941 : the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 22. ISBN 9780070506824. OCLC 15793660. 
  72. ^ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.279

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