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    Nance, Lieutenant Ray, US 29th Division, Omaha Beach, Normandy.
    Nehring, General Walter (1892–1983), commanded 18th Panzer Division in 1940, the Afrika Korps in 1942 and Panzer Armies on the Eastern Front in 1943 and 1945.
    New, Private Wally, Fourteenth Army, Burma.
    Noguchi, Isamu (1904–88), Japanese–American artist and landscape architect.
    Oakley, Private H R, British POW on the death railway, Burma
    O'Connor, General Sir Richard (1889–1981), Commander Western Desert Force 1940–41, captured, later commanded VIII Corps in North Europe: subsequently served in India and on the Army Board, resigning on a point of principle.
    Okada, Lieutenant Teruo, Intelligence Officer, Japanese Army in Burma.
    Osterholz, SS Colonel Wilhelm, battalion commander, Sixth SS Panzer Army 1944–45.
    Oulton, Air Vice Marshal Wilfrid (1911–97), RAF Coastal Command pilot and post-war air-traffic control pioneer.
    Overlander, Mr, Canning Town resident during the Blitz.
    Owen, Corporal Eddy, 2nd Marine Division, Tarawa.
    Owens, Lieutenant J K, staff officer, Fourteenth Army, Burma.
    Paerl, Jetje, singer on Radio Orange.
    Paisikowic, Dov, Russian–Jewish survivor of Auschwitz.
    Pederson, Marine, 2nd Marine Division, Tarawa.
    Pene, Private Ruhi, Maori member of the 2nd New Zealand Division in North Africa.
    Pheffer, Herman, disabled US serviceman.
    Piers, Lieutenant Desmond 'Debbie', Canadian commander of antisubmarine sloop HMCS Restigouche.
    Priestley, J B (1894–1984), served in the infantry in First World War, prolific English novelist, playwright and wartime broadcaster.
    Pullini, Lieutenant Emilio, Italian Folgore (Lightning) Parachute Division, North Africa.
    Pusch, Werner, pre-war German Social Democrat who joined the SS.
    Putterman, Lieutenant Felix, Jewish–American US Army Civilian Affairs officer.
    Rabeck, Marine Corpsman Herman, marine at Iwo Jima.
    Reed, Private Robert, 2nd New Zealand Division, Eighth Army, North Africa.
    Rees, Major Goronwy (1909–79), Marxist intellectual, British Combined Operations Staff Officer in the Planning Staff for D-Day, journalist, author and briefly a Soviet spy.
    Reeves, Private Bert, Anglo-Indian Fourteenth Army, Burma.
    Reid, Flight Lieutenant William (1921–2001), RAF Bomber Command pilot who won the VC on his eighth mission in November 1943, later flew with 617 Squadron until his aircraft was hit by a falling bomb in July 1944, from which he barely escaped to end the war as a POW.
    Reiner, Lieutenant, Fourth Panzer Army at Stalingrad.
    Remer, Heipke, member of the League of German Maidens.
    Remer, Major General Otto-Ernst (1912–97), commanded Guard Regiment in Berlin during 20 July bomb plot and instrumental in crushing the revolt.
    Rheinheimer, Heinz, German civilian living in Darmstadt.
    Roberts, Captain Gilbert, Director, Western Approaches Tactical Unit, Liverpool, developed anti-submarine techniques. His characteristic phrase 'the cruel sea' became the title of a book by Nicholas Monsarrat, a wartime naval officer.
    Robertson, Second Lieutenant William, US Army, met Russians at Torgau.
    Rogan, Air Navigator John, Eighth Air Force, USAAF.
    Ronke, Christa, Berlin schoolgirl.
    Russell, Sir John, British Minister in Moscow 1940–41.
    Rybakova, Olga, Leningrad housewife.
    Sakai, Lieutenant Saburo (1916–2000), Japanese Navy fighter ace.
    Sakomizu, Hisatsune (1902–77), Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Kantari Suzuki, 1945.
    Samuelson, Dr Paul (b. 1915), member of the US War Production Board, Nobel Prize-winning Professor of Economics at MIT.
    Sanematsu, Commander Yuzuru, Naval Attaché at Japanese Embassy in Washington 1941.
    Schimpf, Private Albrecht, German Army on the Eastern Front.
    Schmidt-Schmiedebach, Lieutenant Heinrich, German artillery officer, Eastern Front.
    Schroer, Major Werner (1918–85), German fighter pilot who shot down 117 Allied aircraft, 59 over North Africa, 22 over Italy and the rest over Germany.
    Schulze-Kossens, SS Lieutenant Colonel