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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 05:32:41 AM

Title: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 05:32:41 AM: Another subject for possible game scenarios:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran

(http://reibert.info/attachments/major-chernev-28-mex-korp-polkovnik-mak-veg-i-major-robinson-jpg.144378/)

(http://reibert.info/useralbums/img_47636_13349-jpg.28788/standalone?embedded=1)

(http://visualrian.ru/ru/images/zooms/RIAN_59540.jpg)

(http://reibert.info/attachments/8-jpg.416595/)

(http://waralbum.ru/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/brtitishtroopsiran.25rsjrxa8kf4cg4owso8cswgc.ejcuplo1l0oo0sk8c40s8osc4.th.jpeg)

One problem - how to create the Iranian army ...
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: lou passejaire on 18 March 2015, 12:26:11 PM: i have not found a lot of pictorial evidence about the iranian army ...

it seem's that german WW1 or early WW2 uniforms will work ...
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: Grimjack on 18 March 2015, 01:15:37 PM: Many thanks for this, I would be interested in knowing more.
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 01:21:56 PM: That's what I was able to find:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hg8nb4gQwxI/TCci_vEGO-I/AAAAAAAAANE/7fSufBqTAiE/s1600/00114.bmp)

Iranian cavalry in 1941

(http://www.e-reading.link/illustrations/1006/1006994-i_009.jpg)

Iranian Gendarmerie in Qazvin. June 1941

(http://www.e-reading.mobi/illustrations/1006/1006994-i_010.jpg)

General Zahedi - the leader of the pro-German factions in the Iranian army

(http://www.e-reading.link/illustrations/1006/1006994-i_022.jpg)

Iran Air Force pilots

(http://rusplt.ru/netcat_files/55/144/800x600/RIAN_00059540.HR.jpg)

Talk of a Soviet soldier with the captive Iranian soldiers

(http://saaidsamiei.persiangig.com/iran/125.jpeg)

Iraqi soldier (irregular?) oversees the German nationals deported from Iran.

(http://www.flashpoint.ru/attachments/11-jpg.36586/)

Iraqi soldier (officer?)
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 02:43:10 PM: (http://www.magnumphotos.com/CorexDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/2/9/9/6/LON90646.jpg)

Meeting of British and Iraqi military personnel.

(http://www.magnumphotos.com/CorexDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/e/4/2/5/LON3133.jpg)

Iraqi Army Soldiers

(http://i1.wp.com/www.kavehfarrokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Iranian-Army-105mm-Artillery-Skoda.png)

Iraqi artillery

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413542918_iran100.jpg)

As I understand it - the Iraqi sailors.

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413542955_iran101.jpg)

The officers

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413542980_iran102.jpg)

(http://danamotor.ir/Iranian_Cavalry_1930s.jpg)

Iranian Cavalry

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543054_iran105.jpg)

infantry

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543077_iran106.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543130_iran108.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543161_iran109.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543196_iran110.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543225_iran111.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1413543339_iran112.jpg)

(http://imtw.ru/uploads/imperiall/imgs/total_war1418317120_corbis-be085315a.jpg)

(http://irandefence.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33983&stc=1&d=1227079163)

(http://irandefence.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=33982&stc=1&d=1227079163)

(http://www.iiaf.net/archive/personnel/photos/image-1-855.jpg)

(http://i1.wp.com/www.kavehfarrokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Iranian-Army-75mm-AAA-Bofors.png)

Good information about Iranian artillery: http://www.kavehfarrokh.com/military-history-1900-present/iranian-artillery-units-early-1900s-1941/

And I is not the first to become interested in the Iraqi army in the wargame:
http://panzer8.weebly.com/blog/iranian-mechanized-brigade-1941

(http://panzer8.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/7/2/4672947/9917912.gif)
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: lou passejaire on 18 March 2015, 02:48:58 PM: (http://www.iranpoliticsclub.net/history/nazis1/images/Reza%20Shah%20inspects%20Persian%20Troops.jpg)
this one is the former Persian leader inspecting troops ..
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 02:51:08 PM: This photo period the 1920s
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: lou passejaire on 18 March 2015, 03:00:50 PM: thanks for the information ;)
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 03:07:11 PM: You welcome!

In my opinion for the conversion of the Iraqi infantry you can use figures the Austro-Hungarian infantry in tunic. Or the Hungarians in the second world war.
Cavalrymen are similar to Russian cavalry during the First World War.
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: cuprum on 18 March 2015, 03:39:44 PM: (http://litrus.net/images/books/164439_pic_726.jpg)

Czech AH-IV - version of the tank for Iran. In 1936 - 1937 was manufactured 50 units.

(http://www.uhlib.ru/voennaja_istorija/tanki_vtoroi_mirovoi_chast_ii/pic_744.jpg)

Czech light tank TNH (export version of the tank LT vz. 38) - for Iran. In 1935 - 1937 produced 50 units.
TNH tanks consisted in service 1st and 2nd Iranian armored divisions (25 pcs. Each).
Title: Re: Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
Post by: Hang Tuah on 19 March 2015, 02:50:45 AM: The Campaign in Western Asia volume of the official Indian history has very detailed maps and accounts of the operations from the British view point, including a tank assault on a fort. Well worth getting, even if they are rather patchy on the Iranian side of things. A decent starting point for the latter is Osprey's Iran at War.