The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General of Aviation Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Turzhanskii

Turzhanskii, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich

Major-General of Aviation

* 15th of June 1898

† 2nd of July 1982

(Александр Александрович Туржанский)

Promotions

1935-09-XX Colonel
1935-11-28 Komdiv
1940-06-04 Major-General of Aviation

Service

1932-XX-XX 1936-XX-XX Commanding Officer 8th Assault Aviation Brigade
1937-XX-XX 1938-07-23 Commanding Officer II Long Range Aviation Corps
1938-07-23 1940-02-29 Arrested
1940-02-29 Released
1940-XX-XX 1940-07-XX Assistant Commandant for Flight Training, Taranrog Aviation School
1940-07-XX 1941-08-XX Commandant of Kachinsk Aviation School
1941-08-XX 1942-02-19 Senior Instructor at Military Command & Navigation Academy of the Air Force
1942-02-19 1952-03-25 Arrested
1952-03-25 Condemned to 12 years imprisonment
1953-07-27 Sentence annulled and released
1953-XX-XX Deputy Head of Bomber Aviation Department, Air Force Academy
1954-XX-XX 1955-11-18 Instructor at the Air Force Engineering Academy
1955-11-18 Retired
Picture source: http://airaces.narod.ru