Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski (* February 25 1896 in Warsaw Jazgarzew; † 29 July 1989 in London), nom de guerre Rygor was a Polish officer and head of the Polish secret in North Africa. life Słowikowski came in 1918 for the Polish army and was used from 1919 to 1921 in the Polish-Soviet War. In 1925 [...]
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June 15th, 2013 
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No Comments »Maksymilian Ciężki
June 15th, 2013 admin Heavy Maximilian (born 24 November 1898 in Szamotuły, d. November 9, 1951 in London, England) – Wielkopolska Uprising, the Polish Army Lt. Col. communication, participants work on breaking this cipher Enigma. The years before World War I. Born as one of nine children of a farmer’s daughter and even contractor. My father saw in him [...]
Posted in Allied Commanders, Commanders, Polish Commanders Tags: german army, lung disease, military branches, polish army No Comments »Jimmy Doolittle
June 15th, 2013 admin James Harold Doolittle said Jimmy Doolittle is an American pilot, pioneered the development of aviation between the two world wars. Officer of the USAAF during World War II, he conceived in April 1942 and led a daring raid that bears his name, the Doolittle raid – the first bombing of Tokyo by the U.S. forces. [...]
Harold Burrough
June 15th, 2013 admin Sir Harold Martin Burrough GCB, KBE, DSO (born July 4, 1889 in Herefordshire, d. Oct. 22, 1977 in Hindhead, Surrey) – British naval officer, Admiral, served in both world wars. Biography He served in the British Navy from May 1903. In 1909, he earned a Navy captain. During World War I he served as an [...]
Gwido Langer
June 15th, 2013 admin Gwido Charles Langer (born September 2, 1894 in Zilina, d. March 30, 1948 in Kinross, Scotland) – qualified infantry colonel of the Polish Army, head of the Cipher Bureau, where under his leadership in 1932 a group of Polish cryptographers broke the system of the German Enigma cipher machine. In July 1939, he turned over [...]
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
June 15th, 2013 admin Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, born in 1922 in Algiers and shot in the same city, is known to have murdered 24 December 1942 Admiral François Darlan, the former head of the Vichy government, the de facto power in Africa French North. He received his secondary education at the Lycée Stanislas in Paris. He was [...]
Frederick E. Morgan
June 11th, 2013 admin Frederick Edgeworth Morgan (born 5 February 1894 in Kent, died 19 March 1967) was a British officer who fought during both World War I and World War II. He is best known as the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), which was the original planner of Operation Overlord. Frederick Edgworth Morgan was [...]
Raphaël Onana
June 11th, 2013 admin Raphaël Onana, born 14 July 1919 in Poupouma the village of Nkol Okala at Northwestern Yaoundé, in Central Province, in Cameroon, and died November 11, 2002 in Yaounde, Cameroon is a military origin, it was a magistrate naturalized French and finally a president UFACEF association. On 17 June 1939, he has voluntarily agreed in the [...]
Pierre Messmer
June 11th, 2013 admin Pierre Messmer, born 20 March 1916 in Vincennes (Seine), died 29 August 2007 in Paris, is a politician French. Engaged in the Free French Forces (FFL), it is post-war, colonial administrator. Minister of Armies of General de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969, he was appointed Minister of State in charge of Departments and Territories Overseas [...]
Dimitri Amilakhvari
June 11th, 2013 admin Dimitri Amilakhvari (or Amilakhvari, დიმიტრი ამილახვარი in Georgian) (31 October 1906 to Bazorkino, Russia – 24 October 1942 at El Alamein, Egypt) is a French military original Georgian, who fought in the Free French Forces during the Second World War World. Lieutenant-colonel in the French Foreign Legion, he was often called Bazorka in reference to [...]
