Allied Powers:
King: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Queen: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Bishops: Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Knights: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
Rooks: General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery
Axis Powers:
King: Adolf Hitler
Queen: Eva Braun
Bishops: Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito
Knights: General Hideki Tojo and Hermann Goering
Rooks: Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and Admiral Karl Dönitz
This set was lent to the World Chess Hall of Fame from the Collection of Dr. George and Vivian Dean.
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