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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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  • "Ned" — Edward L. Beach, Jr., World War II U.S. submarine commander & writer[2][33]
  • "Nick" — George D. Wallace, U.S. cavalry officer

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  • "Yurufun" (Japanese, roughly "droopy drawers") – Shimada Shigetaro, Japanese Admiral in World War II[79]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jones, Ken (1959). Destroyer Squadron 23 : combat exploits of Arleigh Burke's gallant force. Philadelphia: Chilton Co., Book Division. OCLC 1262893. 
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 2.57 2.58 2.59 2.60 2.61 2.62 2.63 2.64 2.65 2.66 2.67 2.68 2.69 2.70 2.71 2.72 2.73 2.74 2.75 2.76 2.77 2.78 2.79 2.80 2.81 2.82 2.83 2.84 2.85 2.86 2.87 2.88 Blair, Clay, Jr. (1975). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott. ISBN 978-0-397-00753-0. 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 978-0-297-77084-8. OCLC 2410407. 
  5. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary--wing-cdr-roderick-learoyd-vc-1316870.html
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "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. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Granatstein, J. L. (2002). Canada's army : waging war and keeping the peace. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-4691-8. OCLC 48941226. 
  8. ↑ 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 978-0-07-050682-4. OCLC 15793660. 
  9. ↑ Maclear, Michael. The Ten Thousand Day War (London: Thames/Methuen, 1982), p.94.
  10. ↑ Carroll, Rory (25 June 2001). "Italy's bloody secret". http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2001/jun/25/artsandhumanities.highereducation. 
  11. ↑ Regan, Geoffrey (1993). The Guinness Book of More Military Blunders. Enfield: Guinness Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85112-728-6. OCLC 59946018. 
  12. ↑ Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (New York: NEL Mentor, 1967), p.78.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Barnett, Correlli (1960). Desert Generals. New York: Ballantine. OCLC 1027319. 
  14. ↑ Farago, Patton
  15. ↑ Dupuy, Trevor N., Colonel, United States Army (rtd), editor. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1992), p.633.
  16. ↑ 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. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Johnson, Johnny E. (1964). Full Circle: The Story of Air Fighting. London: Chatto and Windus. pp. 26. OCLC 2486377. 
  18. ↑ Erich Hartmann
  19. ↑ Alfred Schreiber
  20. ↑ Bekker, p.130.
  21. ↑ Wikipedia, Lionel Crabb
  22. ↑ Hastings, Max (1979). Bomber Command. New York: Dial Press/James Wade. OCLC 5170758. 
  23. ↑ "'Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic goes on trial over slaughter at Srebrenica". 16 May 2012. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/16/11727515-butcher-of-bosnia-ratko-mladic-goes-on-trial-over-slaughter-at-srebrenica?lite. 
  24. ↑ "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. 
  25. ↑ Wikipedia, Willis A. Lee
  26. ↑ Grady, Alan.When Good Men Do Nothing: The Assassination of Albert Patterson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003).
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ Molesworth, Carl (2003). P-40 Warhawk Aces of the Pacific. Oxford: Osprey. pp. 50–54. ISBN 978-1-84176-536-5. OCLC 51992611. 
  29. ↑ "7th Armoured Division Site". Archived from the original on 2 Aug 2012. http://archive.is/lk1W. [dead link]
  30. ↑ Allen, Hubert Raymond "Dizzy" (1974). Who Won the Battle of Britain?. London: Barker. ISBN 978-0-213-16489-8. OCLC 1092232. 
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Manchester, William Raymond (1978). American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-54498-6. OCLC 3844481. 
  32. ↑ BBC - Hereford and Worcestershire Features - William Tennant - hero of Dunkirk
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Beach, Edward L. "Ned", (1952). Submarine!. New York: H. Holt. OCLC 396382. 
  34. ↑ Garrison, Webb B. (1992). Civil War trivia and fact book. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-55853-160-4. OCLC 25410905. 
  35. ↑ Farago, Ladislas (1962). The Tenth Fleet. New York: Paperback Library. OCLC 11651418. 
  36. ↑ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.597
  37. ↑ Blair, Clay, Jr. (1975). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-397-00753-0. OCLC 821363. 
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 "The Civil War". 1990. ISBN 978-0-7806-3887-7. OCLC 52791424. 
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Holmes, Wilfrid J. (1979). Double-edged secrets : U.S. naval intelligence operations in the Pacific during World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-162-1. OCLC 5195347. 
  40. ↑ Mahan, Alfred T. (1890). The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783. London: Sampson, Low, Marston. OCLC 12225848. 
  41. ↑ 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. 
  42. ↑ Prange. December 7h, 1941?
  43. ↑ Brayley, Martin; Ramiro Bujeiro (2001). World War II Allied Women's Services. Osprey Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 1-84176-053-6. 
  44. ↑ Baumgardner, Randy W.; Tailhook Association. Tailhook Association: Eagles in Flight. Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 1-56311-403-8. 
  45. ↑ 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 0-06-015318-0. 
  46. ↑ Wikipedia, John Thach
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 Robertson, Terence (1955). The Golden Horseshoe: The Wartime Career of Otto Kretschmer, U-Boat Ace. London: Evans Bros.. OCLC 2162924. 
  48. ↑ Holwitt, Joel I. "Execute Against Japan", Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005, p.327.
  49. ↑ Keegan, John (2000). Churchill's generals. London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-11317-3. OCLC 43501320. 
  50. ↑ 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 978-0-07-050682-4. OCLC 15793660. 
  51. ↑ Davis, Richard Harding (1906). Real Soldiers of Fortune. London: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 853901. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3029. 
  52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt; Curt Johnson; David L. Bongard (1992). Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-270015-5. OCLC 25026255. 
  53. ↑ Flint Whitlock, Ron Smith, Albert Konetzni. The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945. Penguin Group. p. 355. 
  54. ↑ 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. 
  55. ↑ "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. 
  56. ↑ "Cast a Giant Shadow" review in VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever Guide 2007, ed. by Jim Craddock (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2006), p.168.
  57. ↑ Rabinowitch, Abe. The Boats of Cherbourg.
  58. ↑ 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.
  59. ↑ Order of Battle - Pearl Harbor - 7 December 1941
  60. ↑ Farago, Ladislas (1963). Patton: ordeal and triumph. New York: I. Obolensky. OCLC 405969. 
  61. ↑ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.621
  62. ↑ Mason, Pablo; Pablo's War - Bloomsbury Publishing, 12 Aug 1992, ISBN 0-7475-1234-5
  63. ↑ Boyington, Gregory (1958). Baa baa, black sheep. New York: Putnam. OCLC 2124961. 
  64. ↑ David Petraeus#Personal life
  65. ↑ Wikipedia, Lloyd M. Bucher
  66. ↑ Wikipedia, Marc Mitscher
  67. ↑ 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 978-0-07-050682-4. OCLC 15793660. 
  68. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/peopleevents/p_homma.html
  69. ↑ Peniakoff, Vladimir. Popski's Private Army (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1980)
  70. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raborn
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Deighton, Len (1977). Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01422-9. OCLC 3388095. 
  72. ↑ Commander Sharkey Ward (1992). Sea Harrier Over the Falklands: A Maverick at War. Leo Cooper. ISBN 978-0-85052-305-8.
  73. ↑ Newsweek's history of our times, Volume 2 p36
  74. ↑ Tuskegee Airmen
  75. ↑ Willmott, Hedley Paul (1983). The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific strategies, February to June 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-092-1. OCLC 9828511. 
  76. ↑ "Obituary. Gen. Sir Edward Quinan". p. 15. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1960-11-15-15-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1960-11-15-15. Retrieved 6 May 2013. 
  77. ↑ James Brian Tait
  78. ↑ 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 978-0-07-050682-4. OCLC 15793660. 
  79. ↑ Prange, Gordon W., Dillon, Katherine V., and Goldstein, Donald M. At Dawn We Slept (New York: Penguin, 1991), p.279
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