Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (french: Congo belge, ; nl, Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
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– Pierre Ryckmans, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1934–1946)
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French Somaliland
French Somaliland (french: Côte française des Somalis, lit= French Coast of the Somalis so, Xeebta Soomaaliyeed ee Faransiiska) was a French colony in the Horn of Africa. It existed between 1884 and 1967, at which time it became the French Ter ...
Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet (15 June 1893 – 28 July 1975) was a French colonial official.
Born in Tours, he studied at the École supérieure de commerce de Lille before joining the colonial service. His first overseas posting was to French ...
, Governor of French Somaliland (1944–1946)
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Guinea
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
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Horace Valentin Crocicchia
Horace Valentin Crocicchia (6 November 1888 – 1976) was a colonial administrator in various colonies of the French Colonial Empire
The French colonial empire () comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that ...
, Governor of Guinea (1942–1944)
*# Jacques Georges Fourneau, acting Governor of Guinea (1944–1946)
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
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Kuniaki Koiso
was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea and Prime Minister of Japan from 1944 to 1945.
After Japan's defeat in World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Early lif ...
Nobuyuki Abe
was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea, and Prime Minister of Japan.
Early life and military career
Abe was born on November 24, 1875, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the son of former samurai Abe Nobumitsu. H ...
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa
was a Japanese artist and engraver who spent most of his life in France and whose work is featured at the Yokohama Museum of Art.
Biography
Born in present-day Yokohama, he moved to France in 1919 (via the United States) to learn copperplate ...
Rikichi Ando
Rikichi (written: 利吉 or 理喜智) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese general
*, Japanese sumo wrestler
*, Japanese general
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Vasco Lopes Alves Vasco may refer to:
* Basque language, called ''vasco'' in Spanish
* ''Vasco'' (album), a two-part EP by Ricardo Villalobos
* Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer
* Vasco da Gama, Goa, a city in India, often called simply Vasco
* Club de Regatas Va ...
, High Commissioner of Angola (1943–1947)
United Kingdom
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Aden
Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 people. ...
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John Hathorn Hall
Sir John Hathorn Hall (19 June 189417 June 1979) was a British colonial administrator.
During World War I, he served with the 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 27th Infantry Brigade, rising to the rank of captain, and was awarded the Mili ...
, Governor of Aden (1940–1945)
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Malta Colony
The Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies (commonly known as the Crown Colony of Malta or simply Malta) was the British colony in the Maltese islands, today the modern Republic of Malta. It was established when the Malta Prot ...
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Lord Gort
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer during the First World War, he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for his acti ...
, Governor of Malta (1942–1944)
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Edmond Schreiber
Lieutenant-General Sir Edmond Charles Acton Schreiber, (30 April 1890 – 8 October 1972) was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First World War and the Second World War. In the latter he commanded the 45th Infantry Division, ...
, Governor of Malta (1944–1946)
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Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in southern Africa, south central Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by Amalgamation (politics), amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-West ...
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Eubule John Waddington Sir Eubule John Waddington, (9 April 1890 – 18 January 1957) was an English colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Barbados from 1938 to 1941, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia from to 1941 to 1947. After leaving the Colonial Service, h ...
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Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...