The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Marshal  Xu Xiangqian

Xu Xiangqian

Marshal

* 1901

† 1990

(徐向前)

Service

1925-XX-XX Staff Officer, 6th Mixed Brigade, 2nd Army, National Revolutionary Army
1927-XX-XX Staff Officer, 4th Army, National Revolutionary Army
1927-XX-XX Commanding Officer 4th Division, Workers & Peasants Revolutionary Army
1929-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 31st Division, Workers & Peasants Red Army
1930-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 1st Army
1930-XX-XX Commanding Officer 1st Division, Workers & Peasants Red Army
1931-XX-XX Chief of Staff, 4th Army, Workers & Peasants Red Army
1934-XX-XX Member Executive Commission, Chinese Soviet Republic
1935-XX-XX Commander in Chief Frontline Command, Red Army
1936-XX-XX Commander in Chief West Route, Red Army
1937-XX-XX 1945-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 129th (Communist) Division, 18th (Communist) Army Group
1939-XX-XX Commanding Officer Officer 1st (Communist) Column, 18th (Communist) Army Group
1942-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Suiyuan Alliance Army
1945-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Zone
1948-XX-XX First Deputy Commanding Officer North China Military Region
1948-XX-XX Commander in Chief 1st Army Corps
1949-XX-XX Chief of the General Staff, People's Liberation Army
1954-XX-XX Vice-Chairman of People's Revolutionary Military Commission
1954-XX-XX Vice-Chairman of National Defence Commission
1966-XX-XX 1987-XX-XX Vice-Chairman of Central Military Commission
1978-XX-XX 1980-XX-XX Minister of Defence
1978-XX-XX 1980-XX-XX Deputy Prime Minister
Picture source: Courtesy of Jon Zhou