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15-12-2006, 12:00 AM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 | Welcome Richie. I have been offline so the best I can offer is a wiki. William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
__________________ 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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15-08-2007, 05:07 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denmark
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 | I see that I have neglected to bring information about my website updates. So here is a status. The database now covers 17409 generals distributed over these nations. AUS 235 BEL 112 BGR 107 BRA 27 CAN 219 CHN 1139 CZE 196 DEN 16 EST 20 FIN 63 FRA 1008 GER 257 GBR 2622 GRC 61 HUN 366 HVR 93 ITA 1181 JPN 1626 LVA 33 LTU 36 NLD 44 NOR 11 NZL 78 POL 196 ROU 270 SOV 5490 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force VVS) THA 30 USA 1656 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force USAAF) YUG 177 ZAF 37 There are now photos over a thousand generals. Enjoy |
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15-08-2007, 06:04 PM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Thanks Steen, Great work. Cheers Geoff
__________________ 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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29-09-2007, 07:32 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denmark
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| I am happy to report on the recent update of the database, which now covers 17653 generals. A lot of new information has been added to the Chinese and Soviet sections. The database also now contains portraits of 1832 generals. |
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29-09-2007, 09:04 PM
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| So you hear voices too?   Join Date: Feb 2006
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| I wasn't aware of the existence of this site. I am amazed at the enourmous amount of work that got into making this. Thank you very much, Steen!
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30-09-2007, 01:16 AM
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| Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Well done Steen. Good to see the numbers still increasing.
__________________ 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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