In Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of alternate history novels, the character Anthony Dresser appears to be based on Drexler.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

Longstreet is a character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel, How Few Remain, and in Robert Conroy's alternate history novel, 1901.

* In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South, Pleasants proposes and enacts his plan for a similar battle when the South engages in war with their time-traveling benefactors.

In Harry Turtledove's second novel of the Worldwar series, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance ( p. 95 ), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks of defending " the green hills of Earth " against an invasion by reptilian aliens.

Nicephorus III is also a fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium.

The little grey / green man's burden idea was commonly explored by Harry Turtledove's Worldwar and Colonization series.

The most ambitious project of this kind seems to be Harry Turtledove's alternative history Worldwar & Colonization series, where lizard-like aliens land on Earth in 1942, bent on conquest, forcing the opposing sides of the Second World War to sign hasty cease-fires and fight their own ( largely ) separate wars against the invaders.

* Minerva — Earthlike planet occupying the orbit of Mars in the alternate universe of Harry Turtledove's A World of Difference.

Harry Turtledove's American Empire trilogy drew parallels between Confederate President Jake Featherston's populist, dictatorial style of rule and Long's governorship of Louisiana.

In Harry Turtledove's novel In at the Death, Madison was the place where the fictional Confederate States President Jake Featherston was shot dead while trying to flee to the last Confederate stronghold in Arkansas.

Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Settling Accounts: In at the Death.

* Harry Turtledove's novel The Gladiator, set in an alternate world where Communism prevailed in the Cold War, has multiple references to Stakhanovites as productivity models.

* Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, is set in 2010 in a world where the Nazis were triumphant, the BUF governs Britainand the first stirrings of the reform movement come from there.

* In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Ruled Britannia Kempe is one of the main characters.

* Benjamin, along with other historical figures, is a character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South ( 1992 ).

In Harry Turtledove's American Empire alternative history books, the Action Française becomes a popular movement in France following the nation's defeat in the Great War.

Alexander also appears in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel How Few Remain and is portrayed in Ann Rinaldi's 1993 book In My Father's House as " Alex.

Hampton appears in How Few Remain, the first novel in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series, an alternate history wherein the South won the American Civil War.

* In Harry Turtledove's book Homeward Bound, the threat of RKV's is mentioned by The Race as a means of possible interplanetary Mutually Assured Destruction

Josephus Daniels was U. S. Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt in Harry Turtledove's Great War series, an alternate history of World War I in a world where the Confederacy won its independence.

* In Harry Turtledove's " Timeline-191 " series of books, the equivalent of Hoovervilles in the United States and Confederate States are called Blackfordburghs and Mitcheltowns, respectively, after fictional Presidents Hosea Blackford of the US and Burton Mitchel of the CS.

There is also a minor character in Harry Turtledove's novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies with the name Odilo Globocnik.

He is one of the main Antagonists in Harry Turtledove's short story " Lee at the Alamo "

Such a meeting also took place at the time of Hitler's coming to power, as Harry Graf Kessler was holding a speech for the club members in the Hotel Kaiserhof.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

* 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.

* The Secret War of Harry Frigg

In 1950 American president Harry S. Truman said that atomic weapons may be used in the Korean War.

After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman, then assumed the post of President at Columbia University.

* 1950 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.

* 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry ' Breaker ' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

Some hotels have gained their renown through tradition, by hosting significant events or persons, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

After World War II, several other forces were also leading the country toward increased equality for blacks, including their accelerated migration to the North, where their political clout grew, and President Harry Truman's desegregation of the military in 1948.

* 1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine.

Napalm was also used during the Korean War, most notably during the defense of " Outpost Harry " in South Korea during the night of June 10 – 11, 1953.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is similar in name to the Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilian service during World War II, but much closer in meaning and precedence to the Medal for Merit: the Presidential Medal of Freedom is currently the supreme civilian decoration in precedence, whereas the Medal of Freedom was inferior in precedence to the Medal for Merit ; the Medal of Freedom was awarded by any of three Cabinet secretaries, whereas the Medal for Merit was ( and the PMOF is ) awarded by the president.

* Harry Patch ( 1898 – 2009 ), British veteran of World War I

The son of Revolutionary War officer Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee III and a top graduate of the United States Military Academy, Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and combat engineer in the United States Army for 32 years.

Harry Coover said in 1966 that a CA spray was used in the Vietnam War to retard bleeding in wounded soldiers until they could be brought to a hospital.

Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, made a similar assessment about Ultra, saying that it shortened the war " by not less than two years and probably by four years "; and that, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended.

films include The Captive Heart ( 1947 ), Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), King Rat ( 1965 ), Danger Within ( 1958 ), The Secret War of Harry Frigg ( 1968 ).

After the United States officially entered World War II, Harry Warner decided to focus on producing war films.

* August 25 – Harry Hammond Hess, American geologist and United States Navy officer in World War II ( b. 1906 )