Historical Figures
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — U.S. president
- Milo F. Draemel — U.S. admiral
- William Halsey — U.S. admiral commanding Enterprise task force
- John H. Newton — U.S. admiral commanding Lexington task force
- Husband E Kimmel- U.S. admiral, C-in-C US Pacific Fleet
- Harold R Stark- U.S. admiral, chief of Naval Operations
- George C Marshall- U.S. general, chief-of-staff of the US Army
- Douglas Macarthur- U.S. Lt-general, commander US Army Forces Far East
- Carl Spaatz- US army air corps colonel
- Frederick C Sherman- Captain, USS Lexington
- George D Murray- Captain, USS Enterprise
- Winston Churchill- Cabinet Minister, later Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Joseph Grew- American diplomat, US ambassador to Japan 1932-1941
- John Rabe- German businessman living in Nanking, 1937
- Isoroku Yamamoto — Japanese admiral
- Mitsuo Fuchida — Japanese naval aviator
- Minoru Genda — Japanese naval aviator
- Masatake Okumiya- Japanese naval aviator
- Ryunosuke Kusaka- Japanese rear-admiral & chief-of-staff
- Jisaburo Ozawa- Japanese vice-admiral
- Chuichi Nagumo- Japanese admiral
- Nishida Maseo- Captain of the IJN Battleship Hiei
- Fumimaro Konoe- Prime-Minister of Japan 1937-1941
- Koki Hirota- Japanese foreign minister
- Hirohito- Emperor of Japan
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“What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)