Also known as "Black Jack", John J. Pershing was a gerneral officer in the United States Army. His importance is obvoius once you learn that he was promoted to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army, General of the Armies. Not only this, but he also holds the first United States officer service number. He did many great things to get this high reputation. He led the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI and was known as a mentor by many great United States Army gernerals during WWII.
TE Lawrence TE Lawrence was a British Scholar who had attended Oxford and learned Arabic on an archeological expediton. In WWI, he took what he learned and turned it into an idea to weaken the Ottoman Empire's Central Powers by brginning an Arab rebellion. First he lead the Arabs in a querilla campaign behind the lines, typing up many of the Ottoman troops. This led to their capture of the port town of Al-' Aqabah, reaching Damascus by the end of the war. Although they had a great victory, the Arabs never were able to form a unified nation, causing the Middle East to be split between Britain and France. All of this made Lawrence known for his part in helping weaken the Ottoman Empire which aided the Allied victory in WWI.
Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch was a French army supreme commander and chief though to have one of "the most original and subtle
mind[s] in the French army" during WWI. Some of his achievements include serving as a general in the French army during WWI and becoming a Marshal of France. Chosen as a supreme commander of the Allied armies, Foch was seen as a great leader. He was even made the Marshal of Poland and was very importand in his role of advocating for peace so that Germany would never be a threat to France again. He even someone saw the future as he said "This is not a peace. It is an armistive for twenty years". This was shown to be correct when WWII started two decades later.
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