Bonner Fellers
Bonner Fellers | |
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| Birth name | Bonner Frank Fellers |
| Born | February 7, 1896 Ridge Farm, Illinois, United States |
| Died | October 7, 1973 (aged 77) Washington, D.C., United States |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Service years | 1918–1946 |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Service number | 0-12134 |
| Unit | Coast Artillery Corps |
| Conflicts | World War I World War II |
| Awards | Army Distinguished Service Medal (2) Legion of Merit |
Brigadier General Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a United States Army officer who served during World War II as a military attaché and director of psychological warfare. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were unknowingly intercepted by Axis agents and passed to Nazi German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel for over six months, which contributed to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. After the war, he played a leading role in efforts to exonerate Hirohito and members of the Japanese Imperial Family from war crimes during the Tokyo Tribunal.