Name that general! (with written questions too)

...and another ....





...this should give a little more info...


-whatever

-Lou

 

He was killed/assassinated in 1942 by one of his own countrymen.



According to Wiki, he

"... was unpopular with the Allies--he was considered pompous, having asked Eisenhower to provide 200 Coldstream Guards and Grenadier Guards as an honor company for the commemoration of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz--and it was said that 'no tears were shed' at his funeral."​

Well.... there you go.... a vitual 'gimme'...

-whatever

-Lou

 

Francois Darlan

François Darlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Good one, Michele - Darlan it is.

Your go...

-Lou

 

Where did he command?

 

Looks like Gen. Harold Alexander. If so, he commanded in North Africa and Italy.

JT

 

Your go, JT!

 

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a commission as 2nd Lt. in the Marine Corps, fought in the Pacific, and retired as a Lt. General.

He's on the far right in the first photo, a Brig. General on Guam.

JT

 

Lieutenant General Pedro Augusto del Valle

 

- del Valle - that's the first name in this thread that I haven't recognized.... have to do a bit of 'reading-up' on him!....


(...thats not to say I haven't LEARNED something from all of the other posts - au contraire' !- it's been quite illuminating)

- carry on, gentlemen - (and don't let Slipdigit get it! - he's going to post a Japanese general - I don't know those guys at all!)

-whatever

-Lou

 

don't worry Lou, No Japanese for me, I promise

 

Mike's up.

As commander of the 11th Marines (artillery) on Guadalcanal, Col. Del Valle's guns were instrumental in helping defeat several large Japanese attacks, the battles of the Tenaru River and Edson's Ridge included.
So impressed was Maj. Gen. Vandegrift, commander of Cactus forces, that he recommended Del Valle for flag rank. Del Valle was promoted to brig. general that fall.

JT

 

Here you go lou, not Japanese

 

Chiang Kai shek

 

Na, that would be too easy

After the start of war with Japan, he was personaly asked to rejoin the central government by Shang.

 

a-w-w-w-w-w, jeeeeze, m-a-a-a-a-n.....

...in the spirit of 'political correctness', I'm just gonna shutup....

---I'll get back to you....

-whatever

-Lou

 

I found an interesting website titled 'Generals of World War 2', that lists the generals and a bit of biography and, occasionally, a photo.

I was shocked to see that China had 1280 generals during WWII.

I started to list off the number of WWII generals for each of the (major) Allies and Axis, and found some interesting numbers.

ALLIES..............# Generals

Great Britain..........2623
USA.....................1679
China...................1280
France.................1007
Australia................236
Canada..................219
Belgium..................112
New Zealand............78

SOVIET UNION ......5575

AXIS

Japan...................1627
Italy.....................1183
Germany.................258

The figure of 258 for Germany really surprised me with respect to the numbers from the other warring states. Can anybody back these numbers up from a different source?

-back to the search

-whatever

-Lou