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Events with high posterior probability

Eduard Dietl	Dietl commanded the German 3rd Mountain Division that participated in the German invasion of Norway on 9 and 10 April 1940.
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov	Alexander Ilyich Yegorov or Egorov () (-- February 22, 1939), was a Soviet military leader during the Russian Civil War, when he commanded the Red Army's Southern Front and played an important party in defeating the White forces in Ukraine.
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte	Von der Heydte kept his position as an officer in the'' Ramcke'' Brigade in North Africa until February 1943 when he and several other Fallschirmjäger-officers were transferred to France to form the nucleus of the newly raised 2.
Richard Yary	In 1918, he went over to the side of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) and commanded a sniper division and later the 2nd cavalry.
Volker Wieker	From May to December 2001 Wieker deployed to Kosovo as Commander, Multinational Brigade South and Commander of the 3rd German KFOR contingent.
Ferdinand Neuling	In 1940 Neuling's men took part in the offensive against France, stormed the Maginot Line, and captured Colmar and Strasbourg.
Constantin von Alvensleben	In 1870, on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, Alvensleben succeeded Prince Frederick Charles in command of the III Army Corps, which formed part of the 2nd German army.
William George Nicholas Manley	When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870 he proceeded with the British ambulance corps, and was attached to the 22nd division of the Prussian Army.
Liao Yaoxiang	In 1947, President Chiang Kai Shek appointed General Liao as commander-in-chief of the 9th Army Group, his unit included : The New 1st Army, New 3rd Army, New 6th Army, the 49th Army, 52nd Army, 71st Army, the independent enhanced 207th division and three cavalry brigades.
Erhard Raus	In December 1942, Raus fought a masterpiece of attack and defense that shattered the 2nd Guards Army (of the Soviet Union's Red Army).
Ferdinand Schaal	On 16 March 1942, as the 10th Panzer Division returned to France from its bloody tour of the Eastern Front, Schaal was given the command of LVI Panzer Corps, which was also stationed in the Soviet Union.
Theodor Scherer	In 1940 he was given command of the newly formed Infanterie Regiment 507, which he led throughout the campaign in the West.
Konstantin Koroteev	May 13, 1943, Lieutenant-General K. A. Koroteev was appointed commander of the 37th Army of the North Caucasus Front, which under his leadership was trying to break the'' Blue Line'' Hitler's defense on the Taman peninsula.
Rahmatullah Safi	As a mujahideen commander, Rahmatullah Safi was based in Peshawar, and operated in Paktia and Kunar provinces, taking part in the 1986 Zhawar fighting.
Aleksander Waszkiewicz	In September 1944 Waszkiewicz, a Soviet officer of Polish descent, was attached to the Soviet-controlled People's Army of Poland as the first commanding officer of the newly formed 5th Infantry Division.
Boles?aw Kontrym	Kontrym joined Polish Army units that were forming in Russia and from 1918 served in the 5th Cavalry Regiment of the II Polish Army Corps.
Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld	He was posted as a staff officer to the 232nd Infantry Division in January 1918, and was involved in the last German offensive on the Western Front.
Svetopolk Pivko	He actively participated in the resistance movement as of 1941 in Montenegro, Slovenia and Bosnia, and as an officer of the JNA (Yugoslav National Army) during the war, he served in Italy and the USSR.
Semyon Timoshenko	In 1939, he was given command of the entire western border region and led the Ukrainian Front during the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland.
Qiu Qingquan	In 1948, he saved General Huang Baitao's 25th corps from Communist encirclement in the Eastern Henan Campaign, but he was not promoted or awarded for his actions while General Huang was promoted to the command of the 7th army.
Wei Lihuang	Proceeding southward despite heavy resistance, his forces eventually linked up with Chinese divisions in Wanting, Burma on January 27, 1945.
William Westmoreland	However, as time went on, the strengthening of communist combat forces in the South led to regular requests for increases in U. S. troop strength, from 16,000 when he arrived to its peak of 535,000 in 1968 when he was promoted to Army chief of staff.
Pavlo Dybenko	In April 1919 Dybenko disregarded the orders of his superiors, and conquered Krym instead of moving his forces into the eastern Ukraine (Donbas).
Paul von Hindenburg	Hindenburg and Ludendorff felt that more effort should be made on the Eastern Front to relieve their largely - Muslim allies of the Ottoman Empire in order to defeat Russia, although ironically the most spectacular victory of 1915, the Gorlice -- Tarnów Offensive, was won by Mackensen's German Eleventh Army fighting on the Austro-Hungarian sector rather than as part of Hindenburg's command.
Jun Ushiroku	He served with Japanese forces in the Siberian Intervention of 1919 in support of White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army.
Izak Aloni	On September 15, 1941, he was recruited to the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division of the Polish Army (commander General Władysław Anders).
Paul Hausser	After recovering he commanded the newly formed SS-Panzer Corps (renamed II SS Panzer Corps in June 1943) and against Hitler's explicit orders withdrew his troops from Kharkov to avoid encirclement, only to recapture the city in March 1943.
Vasily Chuikov	Chuikov then commanded the 8th Guards as part of 1st Belorussian Front and led its advance through Poland, finally heading the Soviet offensive which conquered Berlin in April/May 1945.
Lothar Rendulic	Following the death of General Dietl in June 1944, Rendulic served as the general commanding the 20th Mountain Army as well as the commander of German troops stationed in Finland and Norway.
Andrey Yeryomenko	Yeryomenko was given command of the prestigious 1st Red Banner Far Eastern Army, deep in eastern Siberia, where he was serving at the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.
Konstantin Rokossovsky	In November 1944, Rokossovsky was transferred to the 2nd Belorussian Front, which advanced into East Prussia and then across northern Poland to the mouth of the Oder at Stettin (now Szczecin).
Johann Mickl	During the North African campaign Mickl and his regiment fought in the Siege of Tobruk and the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, but Mickl was captured by elements of the New Zealand Division on 26 November 1941.
Xu Guangda	In January 1941, Xu was appointed as the minister of revolutionary military commission as well as the communist party secretary general staff of the central committee, and Yan' an traffic commander, air defense commander, sincerely commander, later the military commander of 120 independent of the eighth route, army division brigade major and the commander of JinSui military area 2nd second, carried out guerrilla warfare civilian and military leadership in Wu Zhai, Shen Chi, partial shut area, strengthened and expanded the anti-Japan base areas.
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte	In August 1939, he was recalled to his company in preparation for the planned Invasion of Poland, Fall Weiß.
Andrey Yeryomenko	On March 26, 1945, Yeryomenko was transferred to the command of the 4th Ukrainian Front, the unit he controlled until the end of the war.
Oleksander Hrekov	In December 1917 he switched to Ukrainian service where his first assignment was the 2nd Serdyuk Division which was only starting to form and at that time consisted out a small officer corps.
Tadeusz Konwicki	In 1944, he joined the ranks of a local Home Army partisan unit, taking part in Operation Tempest and Operation Ostra Brama.
Marko Bezruchko	In 1920, after Petliura's alliance with Poland, he became the commanding officer of a regiment-sized 6th Ukrainian Infantry Division of the 2nd Polish Army under General Antoni Listowski.
Vasily Blyukher	After the Czech Legion Revolt started, in August -- September 1918 the 10,000-strong South Urals Partisan Army under Blyukher's command marched 1,500 km in 40 days of continuous fighting to attack the White forces from the rear, then join with regular Red Army units.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig	The Cavalry Division was disbanded (November 1900) and French, with Haig still his chief of staff, was put in charge of an all-arms force policing the Johannesburg area, later trying to capture the Boer leader de Wet around Bloemfontein.
Ariel Sharon	In the 1956 Suez War (the British'' Operation Musketeer''), Sharon commanded Unit 202 (the Paratroopers Brigade), and was responsible for taking ground east of the Sinai's Mitla Pass and eventually taking the pass itself.
Aleksandr Vasilevsky	At the start of 1944, Vasilevsky coordinated the Soviet offensive on the right bank of the Dnieper, leading to a decisive victory in eastern Ukraine.
Konstantin Rokossovsky	On September 28, 1942, at Zhukov's urging, Rokossovsky was given overall command of the 65th Army (4th Tank Army), 24th Army and 66th Army, that were brought together as the Don Front as part of Stalin's much criticized reorganization of the Southern Front in preparation for the planned Soviet counterattack at Stalingrad :'' Operation Uranus''.
Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman	As Russia's defeat by Japan led to the First Russian Revolution, Gershelman was appointed, on January 15, 1906, the commander of the troops of Moscow Military District.
Imru Haile Selassie	From October 1935, Imru led his provincial army and commanded the Army of the Left in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Huang Yongsheng	In 1948, Huang was appointed the commander of the 6th Column of the Fourth Field Army.
Masaomi Yasuoka	With the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Yasuoka's expertise in armored warfare was recognized when he was made commander of the Yasuoka Detachment, an armored task force of the Kwantung Army, organized for the Japanese July 1939 offensive of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol.
Yang Si-De	Yang took part such famous battles as the Laiwu campaign and after the Huaihai Campaign, During the liberation of Nanjing, on April 1949, during this time, Yang Si-de served in multiple offices of significance including the political commissar of the Fourth Army's garrison in Nanjing.
Wei Guoqing	In 1949, Wei was deputy political commissar of General Ye Fei's Tenth Army Group of the Third Field Army.
Heinrich von Vietinghoff	On 24 November 1938, Vietinghoff was appointed commander of the 5th Panzer Division and took part in the invasion of Poland under Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
Willem Sassen	He was a'' Wort-und Funkberichter'' with the SS - division'' Wiking'' in the southern sector of the front and in the spring of 1942 witnessed the offensive in the Caucasus.
Kurt von Briesen	On 27 August 1939 von Briesen was promoted to major general (generalleutnant) and led the 30th Infantry Division in the invasion of Poland.
Georg Lindemann	Until 4 February 1944, the Sponheimer Group which defended the Narva Line was subordinated to the 18th Army commanded by Lindemann.
Gustav Eduard von Hindersin	In 1849 he served with the rank of major on the staff of General Peucker, who commanded a federal corps in the suppression of the Baden insurrection.
R?diger von der Goltz	A Major-General commanding the German infantry division of Guards on Foot in France, von der Goltz was transferred to Finland in March 1918 to help the nationalist government in the civil war against the Finnish'' Reds'' and Soviet Russian troops.
Idania Fernandez	In 1984, at the peak of the Contra war, one of the largest battalions of the Sandinista People's Army (Ejército Popular Sandinista), dispatched to the Northern Front to fight the Contras, was named after her.
Apollo Korzeniowski	In 1854, during the Crimean War, Apollo took an active part in preparations to organize in Ukraine -- in the rears of the Russian armies fighting in Crimea -- a Polish uprising.
Leonid Govorov	In November 1943, Govorov began planning the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive which would drive Army Group North out of the Leningrad region.
Ivan Ladyga	In April 1943, he was a senior aide to the chief of intelligence of the 18th Guards Rifle Corps of the 13th Army of the Central Front in the Battle of Kursk where he was involved in the defensive battles in the area west of Station Ponyri, the counterattack at Sevsk, Konotop, and Priluki.
Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon	In 1919, after the end of the war and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his extensive military experience and expertise was utilized by the Hungarian Red Army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and he was again assigned to the General Staff with the rank of major.
Gerhard Pleiss	During the 1941 Balkans Campaign he was the commander of the 1st Companie LSSAH, and was given the task of securing the Klidi pass during the Battle of Vevi which at the time was being defended by British units.
Paul Aussaresses	In 1947 he was given command of the 11th Shock Battalion, a commando unit that was part of France's former external intelligence agency, the External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service, the SDECE (replaced by the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE)).
Hans von Luck	In January 1945, when the division was moved to the Oder front, Luck played a major role in the division's operations along the Reitwein Spur.
Ludwig von Benedek	In early 1859, Benedek was Commander General of the VIIIth army corps in the Second Italian War of Independence.
Anthony Sawoniuk	After taking part in the murder of Jews in his home town, he served in the SS until November 1944 when deserted and joined to the Polish II Corps in the Eighth Army (United Kingdom).
Yonatan Netanyahu	In the early 1970s he joined Sayeret Matkal (Israeli special forces), and in the summer of 1972 was appointed as the unit's deputy commander.
Douglas Alexander Graham	During the landings and the subsequent campaign, his division was attached to the United States Fifth Army and as a result of his performance during the period up to 18 October 1943, including the capture of Naples and the advance to the line of the Volturno River, he was appointed a Commander of the US Legion of Merit.
Heinrich Eberbach	Eberbach participated in the German Invasion of Poland in September 1939 by leading his Panzer-Regiment 35 into battles near Łódź and into Warsaw.
Rodion Malinovsky	He continued his offensive drive, crossed the Southern Carpathians into Transylvania (entering Hungarian - ruled Northern Transylvania), and on 20 October 1944, captured Debrecen, defended by a large Axis force.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny	When war was declared in 1939, he commanded the French 14th Infantry Division until the armistice with the Axis troops.
G?nther Blumentritt	On 27 March 1945, Blumentritt briefly assumed command of the increasingly demoralized After capitulation on 5 May, Blumentritt and his command cooperated in demobilization, under orders from the British 2nd Army, and the taking of prisoners did not take place until 1 June.
Yasuji Okamura	In 1938, a year after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Okamura was assigned as the commander in chief of the Japanese Eleventh Army, which participated in numerous major engagements in the Second Sino-Japanese War, notably the Battles of Wuhan, Nanchang and Changsha.
Heinrich Kirchheim	On 30 April 1941, Rommel placed Kirchheim in command of a battle group formed from the bulk of Generalmajor Johannes Streich's 5th Light Division for an assault against the Ras el Madauer high ground on the Tobruk defensive perimeter.
Wojciech Jaruzelski	In August 1968 General Jaruzelski as the minister of defense ordered the 2nd Army under General Florian Siwicki (of the'' LWP'') to invade Czechoslovakia, resulting in military occupation of northern Czechoslovakia until 11 November 1968 when under his orders and agreements with the Soviet Union his Polish troops were withdrawn and replaced by the Soviet Army.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel	However, it was soon apparent to him that the new government existed only through the waning support of Germany, and in August 1918, he joined the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army based at Yekaterinodar, where he was given command of the 1st Cavalry Division and the rank of major general in the White movement.
Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian	In 1920, he led his division to a landing on Bandirma during the Greek offensive against the Kemalists, and shortly after in the occupation of Eastern Thrace, against the local Turkish forces of Cafer Tayyar.
Gerard Bucknall	Between the wars he served with the Egyptian Army before eventually seeing action from April 1943 as Commander of I Corps and then from August 1943 as General Officer Commanding the 5th Division in Sicily and Italy.
Grigori Shtern	He was appointed as the Commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen	In 1849 he served as chief of staff to the Bavaria n contingent at the front and distinguished himself at the lines of Dybbøl.
Dmytro Vitovsky	He became the first commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army (November 1 -- 5, 1918).
Wang Yaowu	In 1937, Wang led his unit in the Battle of Shanghai.
Hermann Balck	In September 1944 he was transferred from 4th Panzer Army in Poland to the Western front to command Army Group G in relief of General Blaskowitz in the Alsace region of France.
William E. Verge	While in command of Flotilla 7 (later to be know as'' Verges' Fast Freighters'') Cdr Verge was under the command of Commander 7th Amphibious Forces involved in the Following invasions Once the Philippine Islands were declared liberated, (now Captain) Verge and his flotilla were placed under the Command of Amphibious Group 9 from 4 July 1945 till the end of the war, with the task of regrouping elements of the Southwest Pacific Army Forces in the Philippines.
Konstantin Akashev	During August-September, 1919, he commanded an air group formed to combat the cavalry of General Konstantin Mamontov that was fighting in the Soviet rear areas.
Zhang Yunyi	In 1926, Zhang took part in the Northern Expedition as the Chief of staff.
Walter Model	At various times in 1944, Model commanded each of the three major army groups on the Eastern Front, and for a short period in the middle of the year was commanding both Army Groups Centre and North Ukraine simultaneously.
Ivan Ladyga	In November 1943, now a Captain, as Assistant Chief of Operations on the staff of the Infantry Corps, he led a group of scouts taking an active part in ensuring the withdrawal of the 8th Infantry Division from encirclement near a settlement of thick woods west of Chernobyl.
Yuval Ne'eman	During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Ne'eman served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as battalion deputy commander, then as Operations Officer of Tel Aviv, and commander of Givati Brigade.
Bronislaw Urba?ski	Later in 1943 he became involved with the allies in ` Operation Vulcan' which occurred on On April 22, 1943 by the British Infantry Division, as a part of 1st Army's offensive with General Sikorski the battle was successful over the AXIS.
Ruslan Gelayev	In early 1995, he became the commander of the South-Western Front for the separatist forces, tasked with defense of the Argun Gorge area.
Vicente Ferrer Moncho	He participated in the Battle of the Ebro (1938) and the retreat of the Republican army to France after the fall of the Catalan front.
Aleksei Brusilov	In 1913, Brusilov was posted to command the XII Corps in the Kiev Military District, remarking on his departure,'' I do not doubt, that my departure will produce a sensation in the troops of Warsaw region... Well !
Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski	Until March 19, 1919 he was also the commanding officer of the Wschód Army fighting on the fronts of the Polish-Ukrainian War in Galicia.
Franz Augsberger	On 1 October 1940 Franz Augsberger transferred as a company commander from the SS-Standarte'' Der Führer'' replacement unit to the SS-Standarte `` Westland'', an SS-regiment consisting of volunteers from the Netherlands and Belgium only to transfer to the SS-Standarte `` Nordland'', composed of volunteers from Norway and Denmark, in December 1940.
Yan Xishan	In August 1936 Prince Teh's army attempted to invade eastern Suiyuan, but it was defeated by Yan's forces under the command of Fu Zuoyi.
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig	On 1 June 1941 Sauberzweig was appointed as commander of the Wehrmacht 466th Infantry Regiment which he led on the Eastern Front during the attack on southern Russia.
Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson	After a period holding the defensive position known as ` the Birdcage' around Salonika, XII Corps moved up-country in July 1916, taking over former French positions, but only part of Wilson's command was involved in the fighting during the summer and autumn.
Manuel F. Segura	Segura was later given of a rank of colonel and he was assigned of commanding colonel and military officer of the 85th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Infantry Division, Philippine Commonwealth Army was supported of over 25,000 active troops and military officers under by Lieutenant Colonel Rogaciano `` Popoy'' C. Espiritu and they local military officers and aided the local Cebuano guerrilla groups and American troops of the United Statees Army's Americal Division was found started the main battle commands to the fall of liberated in Northern Cebu on 1945 against the Imperial Japanese ground troops led by General Sosaku Suzuki.
Alexander von Krobatin	It was as a field commander that Krobatin was most successful, and following his role at Caporetto in October 1917 during which his force captured two Italian divisions he was promoted to Field Marshal on November 5, 1917.
Grigori Shtern	During the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, Shtern was appointed as the Commander of the 8th Army on 12 December 1939.