| BRADLEY | Omar, soldier who commanded the US forces at the Normandy invasion (7) |
| WOLFE | James, soldier who commanded the British capture of Quebec in 1759 (5) |
| PYRRHUS | King of Epirus who won a costly victory against Roman forces at the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC (7) |
| AGRIPPA | Roman statesman and general who defeated Antony and Cleopatra's forces at the battle of Actium |
| NILSSON | Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, who commanded the stage at Beyreuth as the leading Wagnerian soprano |
| BLUCHER | Field marshal who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (7) |
| GRISSOM | Gus, U.S. astronaut who commanded the Apollo 1 mission in 1967 (7) |
| FAIRFAX | Thomas, 17c English general who commanded the Parliamentarian army 1645-50 (7) |
| FRAGILE | Easily broken with force, at the end. It's quite delicate (7) |
| UTILISE | Exploit is in vain without force at the front (7) |
| SURGERY | Increase in force at the end of military operation (7) |
| DRIVING | Is such a force at the wheel or on course? (7) |
| COCHISE | Apache chief who led Native American resistance against US forces in the Arizona region between 1861 and 1872 (7) |
| VIETNAM | South East Asian nation which forced the withdrawal of US forces supporting its southern regime in the independence war of the sixties |
| ANDREWS | Frank, American air force officer who succeeded Eisenhower as commander of US forces in Europe (7) |
| REMAGEN | German town with a critical Rhine bridge captured by US forces in the closing days of the Second World War |
| WHIPSAW | Affect with two opposing forces at once |
| OKINAWA | Largest of the Ryukyu Islands, it was annexed by Japan in 1879 and invaded by US forces in 1945 |
| IWOJIMA | Island south of Japan, seized by US forces in 1945 (3,4) |
| GRENADA | Island nation occupied by US forces in October 1983 |
