| LEMAY | General who commanded the 1945 air attacks against Japan |
| SCIPIO | Roman general who commanded the Roman invasion of Carthage in the Second Punic War (6) |
| AGRIPPA | Roman general who commanded the victorious fleet at Actium (7) |
| FAIRFAX | Thomas, 17c English general who commanded the Parliamentarian army 1645-50 (7) |
| NILSSON | Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, who commanded the stage at Beyreuth as the leading Wagnerian soprano |
| ARMSTRONG | Astronaut who commanded the space mission that enabled him to become the first person to walk on the moon (9) |
| DRAKE | Sea captain and explorer who commanded the Golden Hind on the first English circumnavigation of the Earth (5) |
| VASEY | Who commanded the 7th Division of Australian troops in New Guinea fighting the Japanese in the Kokoda Track campaign during World War II? (5) |
| BLUCHER | Field marshal who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (7) |
| BRADLEY | Omar, soldier who commanded the US forces at the Normandy invasion (7) |
| KESSELRING | Albert, German field marshal who commanded the Luftwaffe attacks on Britain from 1939-40 (10) |
| ORDE | ___ Wingate. British military officer who commanded the Chindits in the Second World War (4) |
| ABNER | Cousin of Saul who commanded the Israelite army |
| ODIN | God who commanded the Valkyries |
| GRISSOM | Gus, U.S. astronaut who commanded the Apollo 1 mission in 1967 (7) |
| WOLFE | James, soldier who commanded the British capture of Quebec in 1759 (5) |
| JIMLOVELL | American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 (3,6) |
| LEE | General who commanded the 26-Acrosses |
| MARLBOROUGH | 1st Duke of ---, title of John Churchill, English general who commanded British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| JOHNMOORE | Glasgow-born soldier, mortally wounded in Coruna, who commanded the English army in Spain from 1808- |
