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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 made the Chief of Staff to the Chinese Nationalist Leader, Chiang Kai-shek. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Stilwell has received more than 1,250,745 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Joseph Stilwell is the 848th most popular military personnel (up from 896th in 2019), the 2,473rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,760th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joseph Stilwell ranks 848 out of 2,058. Before him are Bruno Loerzer, Rudolf Schmundt, Gongsun Du, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, and Erich Brandenberger. After him are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Gerhard Schmidhuber, Max Simon, Andrew Parker Bowles, Erhard Raus, and Ernst Linder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Joseph Stilwell ranks 89. Before him are Walter Huston, Johnston McCulley, Louis Massignon, Leonid Kulik, Bertram Ramsay, and Edgard Varèse. After him are Hermann Abendroth, Hasui Kawase, Jean Metzinger, Henk Sneevliet, Dmitry Manuilsky, and Rudolf Weigl. Among people deceased in 1946, Joseph Stilwell ranks 74. Before him are Henry Bergman, Jack Johnson, Jeanne Lanvin, Max Koegel, George Arliss, and Henri Gouraud. After him are Mihai Antonescu, Leon Rupnik, Hans Loritz, Masaharu Homma, István Bethlen, and Wilhelm Souchon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Stilwell ranks 2,473 out of 20,380. Before him are Marie Laveau (1801), Robert Benton (1932), Randolph Scott (1898), Gerard Damiano (1928), Sundance Kid (1867), and Mimi Rogers (1956). After him are Eugene Nida (1914), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), James Whitmore (1921), Geraldine Page (1924), Jerry Orbach (1935), and Jamie Foxx (1967).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Joseph Stilwell ranks 39. Before him are Joseph E. Johnston (1807), Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Alexander Haig (1924), David Farragut (1801), and P. G. T. Beauregard (1818). After him are Matthew Ridgway (1895), John C. Woods (1911), Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), Philip Sheridan (1831), and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886).

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