George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959) general of the army and US Army chief of staff during World War II, US Secretary of State (1947-49), Received a Nobel Prize for his work on the Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program (ERP), Clay (1897-1978) deputy military governor to General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) in Germany, played a significant part in engineering the Berlin Airlift (1948-49),