The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Jan Joskiewicz

Joskiewicz, Jan

Major-General

* 11th of March 1898

† 8th of August 1964

(PPA)

(Former Soviet Army)

(Иван Федорович Иоскевич)

(Ivan Fedorovich Ioskevich)

Promotions

1944-06-03 Major-General (Soviet Army)
1945-05-03 Brigadier-General
1946-01-01 Major-General
1946-07-11 Lieutenant-General (Soviet Army)

Service

1941-01-XX 1941-09-15 Instructor at Frunze Military Academy
1941-09-15 1942-02-XX Chief of Staff, 342nd Rifle Division
1942-02-XX 1942-03-XX At disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate
1942-03-XX 1942-04-18 Attached to 242nd Rifle Brigade
1942-04-18 1942-11-09 Commanding Officer 414th Rifle Division
1942-11-09 1942-11-19 Wounded and hospitalised
1942-11-19 1942-12-XX Commanding Officer 276th Rifle Division
1942-12-XX 1943-06-18 Deputy Commanding Officer XVI Rifle Corps
1943-06-18 1943-06-27 Acting Commanding Officer XVI Rifle Corps
1943-06-27 1943-12-10 Deputy Commanding Officer XVI Rifle Corps
1943-12-10 1944-04-21 Commanding Officer 20th Mountain Rifle Division
1944-04-21 1944-07-03 Commanding Officer 20th Rifle Division
1944-07-03 1945-01-XX Wounded and hospitalised
1945-01-XX 1945-04-XX At disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate
1945-04-XX Transferred from the Soviet Army
1945-04-XX 1945-05-03 At disposal of the Commander in Chief of the Polish People's Army
1945-05-03 1945-05-11 Chief of Staff, 2nd Army
1945-05-11 1945-07-06 Acting Chief of the General Staff
1945-07-06 1945-10-10 Chief of Staff, 2nd Army
1945-10-10 1947-06-10 General Officer Commanding II Military Area
1947-06-27 Returned to the Soviet union
1947-07-XX 1947-09-XX At disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate
1947-09-XX 1955-11-29 Head of General Tactics Department, Air Force Academy
1955-11-29 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Mikhail Eremenko