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15-10-2007, 11:52 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Generals of WW11 This site is a great reference tool for Generals from all countries who participated in WW2. Steen Ammentorp from Denmark has done a marvellous job updating this website over many years and I recommend it to you. The links pages at his site have some wonderful information: eg. http://france1940.free.fr/ http://www.generals.dk/ "About the project This project attempts to create a biographical database, which covers the army generals of all participating countries of the Second World War. At the moment the database contains 17653 short biographical sketches of the army generals of World War 2. However, taking into account the scope of the project, the information on each general will vary in detail. Some generals have only been identified and listed with their last names, while others are listed with full names and sketches of their military careers. I am engaged in the quest for further biographical information on the generals and as a result there will be continual updates. To find information on a specific general use the Search function or just click on The Generals and then choose the country of origin. I hope that you will find this a useful reference tool." Best Regards Steen Ammentorp, Librarian DB., M.L.I.Sc.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 16-10-2007 at 12:06 AM. |
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16-10-2007, 12:58 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Field Marshall William Joseph (Viscount) Slim (1891 - 1970) One of my favourite Generals! http://www.generals.dk/general/Slim/...t_Britain.html Slim William Joseph Viscount, Field Marshal (1891 – 1970) (Indian Army) Nickname: Uncle Bill 1934 - 1936 Instructor at Staff College Camberley Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles 1939 Commandant of Senior Officers' School, India 1939 - 1941 Commanding Officer 10th Indian Brigade, Eritrea 1941 Wounded 1941- 1942 General Officer Commanding 10th Indian Division, Syria 1942 General Officer Commanding BurCorps, Burma 1942 - 1943 General Officer Commanding XV Indian Corps, Burma 1943 Acting General Officer Commanding Eastern Army 1943 - 1945 General Officer Commanding 14th Army, Burma 1945 Commander in Chief Allied Land Forces South-East Asia 1946 - 1947 Commandant of Imperial Defence College 1948 Retired 1948 Recalled 1948 - 1952 Chief Imperial General Staff, War Office 1952 - 1960 Governor-General & Commander in Chief of Australia
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-10-2007, 05:19 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Field Marshall Erwin Rommel Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Read about his Army History here: Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin (1891-1944)
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-10-2007, 05:32 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Wow, that site is bloody huge! Good post, Spidgeman. Our dog's namesake: http://www.generals.dk/general/Montg...t_Britain.html Died the year I was born.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-10-2007, 07:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Lieutenant-General - Sir Leslie James Morshead(1889 – 1959) http://www.generals.dk/general/Morsh...Australia.html Morshead Sir Leslie James, Lieutenant-General (1889 – 1959) The Australian General of Fortress Tobruk 1941 and Commander of the 9th Australian Division at El Alamein.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-10-2007, 07:56 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Rodolfo Marquis, Marshal of Italy, Graziani (1882 – 1955) Graziani Rodolfo Marquis, Marshal of Italy (1882 – 1955) http://www.generals.dk/general/Grazi...uis/Italy.html When Italy declared war on June 10, 1940 against Britain and France, the British position in North Africa seemed hopelessly outmatched. UK Army General Percival Wavell commanded 40,000 Dominion soldiers caught between 200,000 Italian troops in Libya and 250,000 to the south in Ethiopia and Somaliland. Wavell sent 30,000 troops on December 9 under UK Army General Richard O’Connor to reclaim Sidi Barrani, Egypt, 65 miles inside Egypt’s border with Libya. The Italians had heavily fortified the town, but the British caught them by surprise and took 20,000 prisoners. The enterprising O’Connor then turned the large-scale raid into a full-scale invasion of Libya, taking more prisoners and occupying Tobruk , Benghazi, and the whole of the Libyan province of Cyrenaica. 130,000 Italian prisoners march towards Egypt.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-10-2007, 08:05 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim von Arnim Hans-Jürgen, Colonel-General http://www.generals.dk/general/von_A...n/Germany.html Col. General Dietloff von Arnim, the Prussian Commander in Chief of the Axis forces in North Africa, has been captured. In all, 150,000 POWs were taken since May 5, when the final assaults on Tunis and Bizerte began. This brings to 400,000 the total of Axis prisoners taken since the North African campaign.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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17-10-2007, 08:09 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor (1889 – 1981) O'Connor Sir Richard Nugent, General (1889 – 1981) http://www.generals.dk/general/O%27C...t_Britain.html Wavell sent 30,000 troops on December 9 under UK Army General Richard O’Connor to reclaim Sidi Barrani, Egypt, 65 miles inside Egypt’s border with Libya. The Italians had heavily fortified the town, but the British caught them by surprise and took 20,000 prisoners. The enterprising O’Connor then turned the large-scale raid into a full-scale invasion of Libya, taking more prisoners and occupying Tobruk , Benghazi, and the whole of the Libyan province of Cyrenaica. 130,000 Italian prisoners march towards Egypt.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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22-10-2007, 04:00 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | General Ira Clarence Eaker (1896 – 1987) (USAAF) Eaker Ira Clarence, General (1896 – 1987) (USAAF) http://www.generals.dk/general/Eaker...rence/USA.html
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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22-10-2007, 04:02 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | General Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891 – 1974) (USAAF/USAF) Spaatz Carl Andrew, General (1891 – 1974) (USAAF/USAF) Nickname: Tooey http://www.generals.dk/general/Spaat...ndrew/USA.html
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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