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Great job. A picture already. Had a feeling that the name was mispelled. Alkinis sounded a bit too baltic..

Here is a english bio:

Alksnis (Astrov), Yakov Ivanovitch (1897-1938)
soviet military leader. In Red Army from 1919. Participated in WWI and Civil wars. Graduated from Academy of RKKA (Frunze) in 1924, Kachinsk military school (1929). 1926-31 deputy of VVS RKKA, 1931 chief VVS RKKA, member of Revolution Military Council (revvoensoviet) of USSR and later Military Council of People Commisariat (narcom) of Defense. From January 1937 also deputy narcom of defense on aviation. In 1929 master the flight and in the summer of 1929 took a record breaking flight (with V. I. Pisarenko) on the route Moscow-Sevastopol. One of the initiators of Osaviachim movement. Participated in planning of record flights of Chkalov and Gromov to USA via North Pole. Repressed and rehabilitated posthumous.

This page might be interesting if we should need some more soviet flyboys:

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/WhoIsWho.html
 
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Originally posted by Frodon
Great job. A picture already. Had a mistake that the name was mispelled. Alkinis sounded a bit too baltic..

Here is a english bio:

Alksnis (Astrov), Yakov Ivanovitch (1897-1938)
soviet military leader. In Red Army from 1919. Participated in WWI and Civil wars. Graduated from Academy of RKKA (Frunze) in 1924, Kachinsk military school (1929). 1926-31 deputy of VVS RKKA, 1931 chief VVS RKKA, member of Revolution Military Council (revvoensoviet) of USSR and later Military Council of People Commisariat (narcom) of Defense. From January 1937 also deputy narcom of defense on aviation. In 1929 master the flight and in the summer of 1929 took a record breaking flight (with V. I. Pisarenko) on the route Moscow-Sevastopol. One of the initiators of Osaviachim movement. Participated in planning of record flights of Chkalov and Gromov to USA via North Pole. Repressed and rehabilitated posthumous.

This page might be interesting if we should need some more soviet flyboys:

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/WhoIsWho.html
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Nice link - will save a lot of time consuming translation :D
 
Originally posted by Dibo
Nice link - will save a lot of time consuming translation :D
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Sad news. Only A and B is finished. BTW: seems like Alksnis was a latvian so I wasn't that far off when I tried to search baltic aviation pages for Alkinis.

Also looks like the VVS chief of staff and deputy commander, a VV VV Khripin, was purged together with Alksnis. Khripin was an advocate of long range strategic bombers. Perhaps another man for our files (and a possible air chief replacement)
 
Originally posted by Dibo
This guy?
Alksnis.jpg

Alksnis (Astrov), Jakov Ivanovich
Commander Soviet Air Force 1931-1937
Info in Russian here:
http://www.airforce.ru/staff/who_is_who/
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Yep, that guy :D. Great work, thanks! :)

Include this fellow and you'll soon have a good-to close-file Birch.

:)
 
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Birch,

Do we have any air leaders for Mongolia or Tannu Tuva? Perhaps we can "borrow" some soviet pilots, preferably one of mongol descent. Had hoped we could give them the superace Sultan Ahmet-Khan, but he was unfortunately a Crimean Tartar.
 
Originally posted by Frodon
Birch,

Do we have any air leaders for Mongolia or Tannu Tuva? Perhaps we can "borrow" some soviet pilots, preferably one of mongol descent. Had hoped we could give them the superace Sultan Ahmet-Khan, but he was unfortunately a Crimean Tartar.
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Ahmet-Khan! One of the best Soviet pilots! To Mongolia?! :eek:

That would make us more evil than Stalin when he sent Rokossovsky to Poland..! ;)
 
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Originally posted by barrabas
Ahmet-Khan! One of the best Soviet pilots! To Mongolia?! :eek:

That would make us more evil than Stalin when he sent Rokossovsky to Poland..! ;)
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Well, Ahmet Khan won't be used by the USSR anyway since he wasn't a general. But I would prefer if we transfer someone who actually fought on the Mongolian front during the Khalkin-Gol campaign. And according to this great aero page Ahmet Khan didn't

http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Jagdflieger/CCCP/Sultan_Ahmet/sultan.htm


But perhaps these some of these guys could be used:

http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/soviet_stepanov.htm

http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/soviet_gritsevets.htm

Some more info here:

http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/George_Mellinger/sovietorderofbattle.htm
 
Originally posted by Frodon
Well, Ahmet Khan won't be used by the USSR anyway since he wasn't a general. But I would prefer if we transfer someone who actually fought on the Mongolian front during the Khalkin-Gol campaign. And according to this great aero page Ahmet Khan didn't

http://www.pilotenbunker.de/Jagdflieger/CCCP/Sultan_Ahmet/sultan.htm


But perhaps these some of these guys could be used:

http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/soviet_stepanov.htm

http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/soviet_gritsevets.htm

Some more info here:

http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/George_Mellinger/sovietorderofbattle.htm
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Very interesting stuff... I guess the Mongolians could get these guys, since they aren't in the Soviet file. It's not that historical though. They were big heroes, especially Gritsevets with his two Gold Stars. I doubt they would have been shipped to Mongolia. They didn't have much of an airforce anyway it seems. According to the last link you posted, Mongolias airforce consisted of a single squadron with a few R-5B biplane bombers at the time of Khalkin Ghol.

But it does make sence giving them Soviet "advisors". So why not? :)

It's a pity that the wakeleader command isn't working. It would be really fun to be able to send "advisors" and "volunteers" to for example Spain and China and sleep/wake them with events (like some have tryed to do).

Or even better... I remember from the early versions that the AI sometimes "kidnapped" your leaders when you sent exp. forces. It worked the other way around to, I got a SPR general like that once when I was playing Soviet. I think they became part of your leaders list and stayed there. So my guess is that it's possible to "send" leaders to other nations this way through the savefile. They wouldn't have to be dublicated and would return with any experience or skill that they might have gained.

It would be great to have a command capable of doing this (*Vulture* :))...
 
Originally posted by barrabas
Mongolias airforce consisted of a single squadron with a few R-5B biplane bombers at the time of Khalkin Ghol.

But it does make sence giving them Soviet "advisors". So why not? :)
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Yep, but HoI is off course a case of alternate history. If Mongolia or the USSR had decided that the Mongolian air force should be expanded, it wouldn't be unthinkable that the USSR had sent some advisors to take command.

A lot of soviet generals (IIRC Rokossovsky and Pliev among others) served as advisors for the Mongolian army before ww2. So why not a couple of pilots as well. And Smushkevich did command the combined Mongolian/USSR air force during Khalkin Gol, but we will off course not send him into exile. But perhaps we could use some of the junior commanders mentioned in the OOB on that link?
 
Originally posted by barrabas
It's a pity that the wakeleader command isn't working. It would be really fun to be able to send "advisors" and "volunteers" to for example Spain and China and sleep/wake them with events (like some have tryed to do).
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Let's hope we will see that in HoI 2. Would be nice to send some of your best leaders to Spain to gain experience...
 
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Originally posted by Aetius
Yeah I can't help but agree. I don't think the files were that good to start with but at least the HoI files were an attempt to get somewhat realistic ministers in realistic cabinets for the whole world. The work the everyone has made on files since the release have been amazing and the end result will be a collection of polticians that I doubt can be found anywhere.

Birch23 I have your files, but I haven't had time to check them. There is one guy who might be useful
I have visited couple of research libraries now and I have most of the missing politicians. Funnily enough there are no picture explainations (of who is who in cabinet pictures) even in official year books. The librarians didn't believe it until I asked them to look for it specifically. The Imperial army pictures are still nowhere to be seen. I will work on them once I have visited two more libraries. I should be able to send you good pictures of many pre-war ministers this weekend.
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Great Aetius absolutely great
 
Originally posted by Ivan the red
This is some sort of trick to incentivate me to send photos? :)

Ok, if this is a race to see who can send more photos... I said you I can't take books from the Library until July 7th... but then I'll stop researching and I'll send all the photos I can take, no matter their uselfuness or historical significance, if this is what you want... :D

If it is about making something that is historical consecuent, then if you have 2 people working with the spanish files you should put us bot in contact so can share our work. :)
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oh no don't stop researching...:) I got the zip files except file 6-7-8 so please resend those...You stuffed my mail box before I could empty it...:D (i was away yesterday)
 
Originally posted by Frodon
Sad news. Only A and B is finished. BTW: seems like Alksnis was a latvian so I wasn't that far off when I tried to search baltic aviation pages for Alkinis.

Also looks like the VVS chief of staff and deputy commander, a VV VV Khripin, was purged together with Alksnis. Khripin was an advocate of long range strategic bombers. Perhaps another man for our files (and a possible air chief replacement)
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We actually have so many Russian flyboys that I have decided to ship some of them to Tannu Tavu,CC,Mongolia and Sinkiang...:)
 
Vulture notice here please

Take a look at the where are we now Sticky,Maufal has posted a message there,which seems a little un understandable to me (did you loose some pics...:)

As said we have so many sub air leaders that I'm able to literally swarm the beforementioned nations with Russian advisors...:D

When I get home I will have to take a look at that great group pic...I think there are better pics there than those we have...(as I recall I cut Orlov from a bad group pic)but I will have to check that...there are actually several on that pic which could be included in the Soviet leaderfile
 
But what we need

What we need though is sub British army officers for the Arab nations(I have plenty of air and navy)but haven't really had the time to look for British colonels or officers in that range which very easily could have served in Arabia (or Albania btw.thinking of Perceval here....whom I haven't found so far)
 
Re: Vulture notice here please

Originally posted by birch23
Take a look at the where are we now Sticky,Maufal has posted a message there,which seems a little un understandable to me (did you loose some pics...:)

As said we have so many sub air leaders that I'm able to literally swarm the beforementioned nations with Russian advisors...:D

When I get home I will have to take a look at that great group pic...I think there are better pics there than those we have...(as I recall I cut Orlov from a bad group pic)but I will have to check that...there are actually several on that pic which could be included in the Soviet leaderfile
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Well I sure haven't lost any pics... But there are some blanks possible yes... I've seen some in Germany as well
 
Re: But what we need

Originally posted by birch23
What we need though is sub British army officers for the Arab nations(I have plenty of air and navy)but haven't really had the time to look for British colonels or officers in that range which very easily could have served in Arabia (or Albania btw.thinking of Perceval here....whom I haven't found so far)
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Where did we send Glubb Pasha & Peake Pasha?

There is a Jordan officer here called Tawfiq Mousa Ahmed

http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/TJFF-maj_tawfiq.htm

OOB for the TransJordanFrontierForce (TJFF)

http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/tjff.htm

Major General Charles Harvey Miller commanded the TransJordanFrontierForce (TJFF) in 1936 (and seems to have spent ww2 in administrative positions in the UK Army)

He was replaced as leader of the TJFF by a Lt Col JI Chrystall, Lt Col PL Wilson and finally Lt Col Sir John Hackett who later had a very distinguished carreer and commanded a NATO army group (and also wrote an excellent alternate history book about WW3)

There is a pic here:

http://www.nntk.net/html/john_hackett.html

Hackett commanded a parachute brigade in Italy and Market Garden so commando skill should be appropriate. And he spent the years 1934-43 and 47-48 in the middle east so I guess he could be "seconded" to a friendly arab army
 
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