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Old 15-10-2007, 11:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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."



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Steen Ammentorp, Librarian DB., M.L.I.Sc.
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"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:
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Old 16-10-2007, 12:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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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
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"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:
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Old 17-10-2007, 05:19 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.

Read about his Army History here:

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin (1891-1944)
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"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:
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Old 17-10-2007, 05:32 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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.
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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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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.
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"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.)

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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.
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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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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.
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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:
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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.
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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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General Ira Clarence Eaker (1896 – 1987) (USAAF)

Eaker

Ira Clarence, General
(1896 – 1987) (USAAF)



http://www.generals.dk/general/Eaker...rence/USA.html
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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:
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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
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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:
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