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Bonner Fellers

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United States Army general (1896-1973)

United StatesLived 1896 to 1973 · aged 77
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Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers was a United States Army officer who served during World War II as a military attaché and director of psychological warfare.

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At West Point in 1918At West Point in 1918Journalist Frazier Hunt with Fellers after the warJournalist Frazier Hunt with Fellers after the warFellers's grave at Arlington National CemeteryFellers's grave at Arlington National Cemetery

Awards 2

Distinguished Service Medal
Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

About this person

Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers was a United States Army officer who served during World War II as a military attaché and director of psychological warfare. From 1943 to 1946, he served on General Douglas MacArthur's staff as military secretary and as head of the psychological warfare drive against Japanese combat troops. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were unknowingly intercepted by Axis agents and passed to Nazi German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. After the war, he played a leading role in efforts to exonerate Hirohito and members of the Japanese Imperial Family from war crimes during the Tokyo Tribunal.

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United States
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1896 to 1973 · aged 77
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10 languages

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