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bestmajor said:
thought about the incorrect name as well. La Ferre, de La Ferre, Laterre, de La Terre... nada
as for the garrison thing: maybe just a unit/div which was there.
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There was also a brigadier general Louis-Auguste Lasserre (1878-1943); BG 1935, he commanded Republican Guard & Gendarmerie legions of Paris in 1936, in reserve from 1938. Maybe him?


bestmajor said:
...good tags there...
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thanks for your explanations on using properly ulstein bild; thanks to them I was able to find somebody I told you earlier:
http://ullsteinbild.de/preview.php?page_num=1&caller=&page=1 although he's a bit old on the picture, taken 10 years after his retirement from the Army.


bestmajor said:
ok i have a little test version ready (progress is slow as i'm working on the soviets at the same time).
maybe you could mention the persons who are definately wrong (in 1936 only, i'll try to do this year by year).
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Congratulations again on your work, for the news pics and the continual improvements on the oldest ones. My thanks especially for Georges Bonnet, an important political character, who had a very bad picture in HoI2. Love the new improved Darlan pic too!

Note: a better pic of general Emile-René Lemonnier (as a major) can be found here: http://ecole-superieure-de-guerre.fr/promotions/biographie/1250
 
benden said:
thanks for your explanations on using properly ulstein bild; thanks to them I was able to find somebody I told you earlier:
http://ullsteinbild.de/preview.php?p...caller=&page=1 although he's a bit old on the picture, taken 10 years after his retirement from the Army.
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ehm, i get rommel if i follow that link

There was also a brigadier general Louis-Auguste Lasserre (1878-1943); BG 1935, he commanded Republican Guard & Gendarmerie legions of Paris in 1936, in reserve from 1938. Maybe him?
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well, sometimes maybe just leave a note and wait a bit or post in that thread to provoke people to post. eg for this person http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=181096 i waited over a month.

benden said:
Congratulations again on your work, for the news pics and the continual improvements on the oldest ones. My thanks especially for Georges Bonnet, an important political character, who had a very bad picture in HoI2. Love the new improved Darlan pic too!
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thanks, initially i had some trouble to find out the right tone for gold (eg Delestraint has 2 versions, and Dentz using the older one). i'm trying to update them slowly but surely.

benden said:
Note: a better pic of general Emile-René Lemonnier (as a major) can be found here: http://ecole-superieure-de-guerre.fr...iographie/1250
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well to be honest a bit very young. thats when? - maybe 1920?






EDIT: btw, it would be more than helpfull if you (or somebody who downloaded this) could install some of the packages. (the CSVs are at the bottom)

GER, ENG, FRA, USA and SOV should work with all HoI2 versions. load this up in 1944 scenario and report missing pics if you have the time.

the leaders CSVs are at the bottom of the file (just adding this as i found that i missed to include a new Saalwächter pic which was ready since ages - there might be even more which i missed to copy in the file - so if you find some you get something for your 5 minutes of work).
 
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bestmajor said:
ehm, i get rommel if i follow that link
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Sorry, it was supposed to be general Louis Rivet!

bestmajor said:
well to be honest a bit very young. thats when? - maybe 1920?
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1927-1929 actually, I have researched a pic of Lemommier as a brigadier general for years but found none so far...
For info, he was beheaded by the Japaneses on March 1945 for refusing to order his troops to surrender.

bestmajor said:
EDIT: btw, it would be more than helpfull if you (or somebody who downloaded this) could install some of the packages. (the CSVs are at the bottom)...
there might be even more which i missed to copy in the file - so if you find some you get something for your 5 minutes of work).
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I reviewed your CSV files using Winmerge; I noticed you did not updated yet some minor nations with the new colour pics, and also that some CSVs are not compatible since they need your B&W pics files to work properly(BUL, CAN, CRO, FIN, ROM, etc...).
Personally I like to do researches on each general that I do not know and mod his stats accordingly but I strongly encourage everybody downloading your pictures pack to use also your CSVs since I see that you have done a lot of work on research/identification and even managed to remove wrong leaders from the database.
 
benden said:
Personally I like to do researches on each general that I do not know and mod his stats accordingly
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ah, ok thats of course better and i appreciate it.

benden said:
1927-1929 actually, I have researched a pic of Lemommier as a brigadier general for years but found none so far...
For info, he was beheaded by the Japaneses on March 1945 for refusing to order his troops to surrender.
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yes, i was putting him in the IDC folder as well, those things help to remember (thats why some pics have duplications in different folder, and their entries in the CSVs get some comments - just hard to remember everything after leader no 2000).

benden said:
I noticed you did not updated yet some minor nations with the new colour pics
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sometimes these folders are just a reminder or nations i'll never see in my games 8eg wallonia has the austrian born Luftwaffe general Hugo Schörgi. i'll add him in wallonia in case somebody wants to know but i never use those states. similar for the "bosnians", AZB, germans in RSI, or herbert Backe in Serbia, etc
the CSVs where i added a lot of replacements or made a lot of changes like ITA, ENG, SOV, GER etc are added.

and well, sometimes i thought research should be fun (eg for the head of air force for CZE)


benden said:
Sorry, it was supposed to be general Louis Rivet!
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ok i'll see if i can find him
 
A new French general for you:
Henry-Paul Jacomy (1888-1975), colonial infantry, Brigadier-general in 1943, retired after the war (not in the 1947 Military annuary); pictured here as a colonel, he was in Indochina at the start of the war, and general Catroux sent him in the USA on July 1940 to buy modern planes and weapons (no success). In 1941 he lead the unsuccessful french counteroffensive during the Franco-Thai war. Then he was sent in 1943 to the French West Indies as a general to command the troops there.



Found another pic here: http://www.vcea.net/Digital_Library/Images_en.php?ID=528
 
thanks, do you have a template for the collar tabs of this person?

i usually search for templates and uniforms first before i start to paint (one reason why i have no dutch generals yet)

as for Rivet:


was it this one?
 
bestmajor said:
thanks, do you have a template for the collar tabs of this person?
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The best I can offer to you is this link: http://www.musee-infanterie.com/obj...odele-1931-de-capitaine-dinfanterie-coloniale
where you can see the detail of a colonial infantry officer dress uniform.
Note: other uniforms can be seen there since it's the Infantry Museum website!


bestmajor said:
as for Rivet:
was it this one?
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Yes, he's the right one but I think we must continue to look for a better pic!
 
benden said:
The best I can offer to you is this link: http://www.musee-infanterie.com/obje...erie-coloniale
where you can see the detail of a colonial infantry officer dress uniform.
Note: other uniforms can be seen there since it's the Infantry Museum website!
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thats exactly what i need, thanks a lot.

btw sometimes it makes sense to search the libraries of universities for biographies of military people. those books are not so special
and at least in cologne everybody can have acces to thousands of pictures and copy or scan them.
eg http://www.univ-cezanne.fr/index.php?id=923
(eg if you know that there might be a book with good content that should be the place to look for?)
 


roughly like this (re: Jacomy)?
 
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Some time ago I was toying around with French/Vichy leader pack for AoD, but never really finished it. I can upload my work if someone needs it, as it might include some hard-to-find leader pics especially for French Navy and Air Force, for example air generals Robert Odic and Jean-François Jannekeyn. I also have original pics for most of those generals.
 
Ok, I'll upload my work later this weekend. When searching for French leaders (and ministers) I found this site, .pdf scans of all issues between 1903-1944 of French newspaper L'Ouest-Éclair. Very useful for hunting ministers but also for leaders. Sadly, quality of pictures isn't great, for example monsieur Jannekeyn:
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bestmajor said:
a little preview:



last one of course not french but german, an anti partisan specialist
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More French generals are always welcome, thx! I hope someday (years?) we will succeed to have the most complete French leaders files (FRA, VIC, Free France) with their colour pictures in the HoI community! and general von Schenckendorff is going to be a great Security Specialist indeed!:cool:


bestmajor said:
EDIT: preview no 2:

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More cool guys, great!


Notes on British air leaders:

-Leader #1471 Conway Pulford's name should merely be Pulford, Conway being its first name; complete name is Conway Walter Heath Pulford.
-On ENG Chiefs of Air Force (ministers): I noticed that you replace Sir Owen Boyd by Sir Robert Brooke-Popham in the 1936 cabinet; that was a more correct choice indeed since the first never held such responsibilities. The problem is that if Brooke-Popham was indeed commander-in-chief Air Defence of Great Britain from 1933 to 1935, the Chief of Air Force post was held by other officers. In my humble opinion the officers in that 'minister' position should come from this post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_Air_Staff_(United_Kingdom)
You notice that only sir Edward Ellington (and maybe sir John Salmond too, if you wish to have a database starting from 1933) is currently missing from the files...
 
benden said:
-Leader #1471 Conway Pulford's name should merely be Pulford, Conway being its first name; complete name is Conway Walter Heath Pulford.
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ok thanks, i really missed this one.

benden said:
-On ENG Chiefs of Air Force (ministers): I noticed that you replace Sir Owen Boyd by Sir Robert Brooke-Popham in the 1936 cabinet; that was a more correct choice indeed since the first never held such responsibilities. The problem is that if Brooke-Popham was indeed commander-in-chief Air Defence of Great Britain from 1933 to 1935, the Chief of Air Force post was held by other officers. In my humble opinion the officers in that 'minister' position should come from this post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o...United_Kingdom)
You notice that only sir Edward Ellington (and maybe sir John Salmond too, if you wish to have a database starting from 1933) is currently missing from the files...
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true, i think i used this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector-General_of_the_RAF
where Brooke-Popham is in office before Ellington (i actually remember that i was after Ellington in the first place before i spotted that list and obviously messed up)

as for 1933, well thats tempting but 3 years can be a hill of work. i deleted the early men for germany, like Bonin, Fleck, von Botzheim (who left in 1927 and was only shortly reactived in 40-42).
but i had this idea, thats why Schleicher and Bracht are in the german folder.
an additional problem for longer scenarios is that death dates do not work.


EDIT: as fore ENG, a pic of Admiral Hallifax, anyone? - thats a bit like vanilla Japan, where the guys from the railroad ministries are admirals.


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benden said:
More French generals are always welcome, thx! I hope someday (years?) we will succeed to have the most complete French leaders files (FRA, VIC, Free France) with their colour pictures in the HoI community!
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appr. 240 pics for France right now
 
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