Operation Countenance - Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

[cuprum]

Another subject for possible game scenarios:

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











One problem - how to create the Iranian army ...

[lou passejaire]

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 ...

[Grimjack]

Many thanks for this, I would be interested in knowing more.

[cuprum]

That's what I was able to find:




Iranian cavalry in 1941




Iranian Gendarmerie in Qazvin. June 1941




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




Iran Air Force pilots




Talk of a Soviet soldier with the captive Iranian soldiers




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




Iraqi soldier (officer?)

[cuprum]

Meeting of British and Iraqi military personnel.




Iraqi Army Soldiers




Iraqi artillery




As I understand it - the Iraqi sailors.




The officers






Iranian Cavalry





infantry


































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

[lou passejaire]

this one is the former Persian leader inspecting troops ..

[cuprum]

This photo period the 1920s

[lou passejaire]

thanks for the information

[cuprum]

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.

[cuprum]

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




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).

[Hang Tuah]

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.