List of World War II military personnel educated at the United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army. This list is drawn from alumni of the Military Academy who are veterans of World War I. This includes ... .

World War II veterans

 * Note: "Class year" refers to the alumni's class year, which usually is the same year they graduated. However, due to the war in Europe, the Class of 1943 graduated early, in January '43, becoming the only class to do so.


 * Arthur F. Gorham, Class of 1938, First Commander of the 1/505th PIR, 82nd Airborne.
 * Ulysses S. Grant III, Class of 1903. Major General; Head of Protection Branch, Office of Civilian Defense
 * Leslie Groves, Class of 1918
 * Alfred Gruenther, Class of 1919
 * Hubert R. Harmon, Class of 1915
 * Albert Hawkins, Class of 1917
 * William M. Hoge, Class of 1916
 * Geoffrey Keyes, Class of 1913
 * John C. H. Lee, Class of 1909
 * Lyman Lemnitzer, Class of 1920
 * Herbert B. Loper, Class of 1919
 * John P. Lucas, Class of 1911
 * Vicente Lim, Class of 1914, served under Douglas MacArthur, general Philippine Scouts
 * Anthony McAuliffe, Class of 1918
 * John P. McConnell, Class of 1932
 * Horace L. McBride, Class of 1916, Commander of the 80th Infantry Division
 * Lesley J. McNair, Class of 1904
 * Joseph T. McNarney, Class of 1915
 * Frank Merrill, Class of 1929
 * Virgil R. Miller, Class of 1924. Regimental Commander of the 442d Regimental Combat Team
 * James Edward Moore, Class of 1924
 * Otto L. Nelson, Jr., Class of 1924
 * Andrew P. O'Meara, Class of 1930
 * Alexander Patch, Class of 1913
 * Matthew Ridgway, Class of 1917.
 * Edward Rowny, Class of 1941
 * John Dale Ryan, Class of 1938
 * Antulio Segarra, Class of 1927
 * William Hood Simpson, Class of 1909
 * Brehon B. Somervell, Class of 1914
 * Daniel Isom Sultan, Class of 1907
 * Maxwell D. Taylor, Class of 1922
 * Thomas J. H. Trapnell, Class of 1927
 * William H. Tunner, Class of 1928
 * George V. Underwood, Jr., Class 1937
 * James Van Fleet, Class of 1915
 * Jonathan Wainwright, Class of 1906
 * Walton Walker, Class of 1912
 * Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Class of 1919
 * Raymond Albert Wheeler, Class of 1911
 * Major general in United States Army Corps of Engineers developing a transportation network in the Middle East to ship munitions to the Soviet Union (1942–1943); South East Asia Command on the staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, where duties including directing construction of the Ledo Road (1943–1944); Lieutenant general and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia (1944–1945), during which he was the US representative accepting the Japanese surrender in Singapore. Immediately after the war, became the Army Corps of Engineers' overall Chief of Engineers.
 * Thomas D. White, Class of 1920
 * assistant chief of staff for operations, and then chief of staff, of the Third Air Force at MacDill Field, Florida,(1942–1943); assistant chief of air staff for intelligence Army Air Forces Headquarters at The Pentagon, Virginia (January to August 1944); deputy commander of the Thirteenth Air Force in the Southwest Pacific, taking part in the campaigns of New Guinea, Southern Philippines and Borneo; assumed command of the Seventh Air Force, which had based its headquarters in the Marianas and immediately moved with it to the recently taken Okinawa (June 1945 to beyond war's end). Would later be the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.
 * Walter K. Wilson Jr., Class of 1929
 * during WWII was a Lieutenant colonel in Army Corps of Engineers, Deputy Engineer-in-Chief with the South East Asia Command (1943–1945); Commanding General, Advance Section, U.S. Forces, China Burma India Theater, and Chief of Staff of X Force (the Chinese Army in India) (1945). Would later be the Army Corps of Engineers' overall Chief of Engineers.