Which WWII Generals Personally Lead their troops in Battle.

 

Only one that I knew about was Rommel,   I'm sure there were others

While most WWII generals led from the safety of the rear, a defiant few fought on the front lines. One even landed in the first wave of D-Day at age 56, armed only with a pistol and a cane.

That man was U.S. Army Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. As the deputy commander of the 4th Infantry Division, he had repeatedly petitioned his superiors to let him lead the assault, arguing his presence would steady the men. His request was finally granted, and Roosevelt stepped off his landing craft onto Utah Beach under heavy fire. When he realized the landing craft had drifted a mile off course, he personally scouted the area and redirected incoming regiments, declaring, "We'll start the war from right here!" He survived the assault but died of a heart attack in Normandy a month later. Here is some details"General Roosevelt", He had big ties with my division, the 1st Infantry Division.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel built his reputation on abandoning his headquarters to ride with his vanguard. During the 1940 invasion of France, he commanded the 7th Panzer Division—nicknamed the "Ghost Division" because even the German High Command often lost track of its location. Rommel drove right alongside his lead tanks, sometimes personally helping soldiers operate anti-tank guns or bridging equipment. In North Africa, he continued this aggressive style, directing battles from a forward command vehicle or flying low over the desert in a Fieseler Storch observation plane to spot British positions.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel studies a map in his forward command vehicle during the North African campaign in 1942. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Major General Maurice Rose commanded the 3rd Armored Division, nicknamed the "Spearhead" division, and lived up to the name by riding in a jeep at the very front of his armored columns. Rather than managing the advance from a rear command post, Rose preferred to be close enough to hear small arms fire. In March 1945, his hands-on approach cost him his life. While moving forward to locate a cutoff unit in Germany, his command group unexpectedly encountered a column of German Tiger tanks in the dark. Rose was shot and killed while reaching for his weapon to surrender, making him the highest-ranking American killed by enemy fire in the European Theater.

Details from "Wiki about Major General Rose"