The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Vasilii Efimovich Vasilev

Vasilev, Vasilii Efimovich

Lieutenant-General

* 23rd of June 1898

† 22nd of October 1981

(Василий Ефимович Васильев)

Promotions

1945-07-11 Major-General
1953-08-03 Lieutenant-General

Service

1928-08-15 1930-11-23 Commanding Officer 4th Turkestan Rifle Regiment
1930-11-23 1933-08-01 Military Attaché to Afghanistan
1933-09-XX 1938-02-10 Chief of 4th Section, Central Asian Military District
1938-02-10 1939-10-21 Arrested
1938-04-24 Dismissed from the Army
1939-10-21 condemned to 15 years corrective Labour camp
1943-09-25 Acquitted and released
1943-12-04 Reinstated in the Army
1943-12-04 1943-12-XX At disposal of the Main Personnel Directorate
1943-12-XX 1944-01-16 At disposal of the Military Council, 2nd Ukrainian Front
1944-01-16 1944-02-17 Deputy Commanding Officer 66th Rifle Division
1944-02-17 1945-07-09 Commanding Officer 138th Rifle Division
1945-07-09 1946-06-07 Commanding Officer 50th Rifle Division
1946-06-07 1948-09-XX Commanding Officer 27th Mechanised Division
1948-09-XX 1952-07-XX Commanding Officer LXXIII Rifle Corps
1952-08-06 1960-04-20 Assistant Commander in Chief for Combat Training, Carpathian Military District
1954-07-XX 1960-04-20 Chief of Combat Training Section, Carpathian Military District
1960-04-20 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin