WW2 Unit Graphics

[Patine]

I am slowly filling out the roster for the PLN and ROC navies, so I came across the case of the Aurora light cruiser.
The Arethusa class was essentially a twin funneled Leander class, minus a turret. Easy mod, ok.
But one, the HMS Aurora, that fought in Crete, Malta, Sicily, Tunisia and the Dodecanese campaign (!) was transferred to the ROC navy as the Chung King on 19 May 1948, then defected to the PLN on 25 February 1949!
But wait! It was sunk by ROC aircraft, March 1949! Later it was refloated by the Soviets and stripped of all useful equipment. Then it was converted into a barracks ship and was renamed to the Huang He (1959) and the Pei Ching (1965). Finally it was scrapped during the Cultural Revolution.
Τ' άκουσες, Αρετούσα μου, τα θλιβερά μαντάτα...

Quite the storied history. Almost worthy of a docudrama.

 

[Tanelorn]

I modded @Fairline's great Akizuki DD into the Kagero class that directly preceeded it(19 ships).
The Type D Matsu was a class of light destroyers.18 Matsus and 14 of the derivative Tachibana class design were completed between 1943-45. One IJN Tachibana class destroyer, Nashi, that was sunk at Kure in July of 1945 was salvaged in 1954 and recommissioned in the Japanese navy as JDS Wakaba. She served until March of 1971.

The pre-war Otori class (8 ships) was nearly identical but had one funnel.
The Kaibokan were essentially escort ships. Shimushu (4), Etorofu (14) and Mikura (8) were pretty similar early war models. The larger mid-war (42-44) Type B Ukuru class Kaibokan had 29 ships built. 56 Type C Kaibokan, similar to Uturu, were completed 1943 and 1946. Even more (67) of the Type D Kaibokan were built but remarkably some of these remained in service with the PLN until 1987. All of these classes served either the Chinese, Taiwanese or Soviet navies after the war.
I am guessing that the unnamed ship in @Fairline s Japanese collection depicts the Momi or Watakaze Kaibokan class.

 

[Tanelorn]

Cosplay Nancy latinos. This is very literaly true, as they both used the M1933 model ersaz vulkanfibre plastic stahlhelms the Nancies rejected. In the case of Argentina, they started with the Danish uniform but modded it into a German lookalike by 1938. In actual combat they would use the (real) Swiss M1918 helmet they named the M1938. The goose stepping Chileans would also purchase small numbers of (real) steel M1935 stahlhelms and Czech M32 helmets. Both used various models of the Madsen LMG.

 

[Tanelorn]

Colombians, WW2. M35 Stahlhelms.

 

[Patine]

Colombians, WW2. M35 Stahlhelms.

It's no wonder the Nazis had a backup New Order redoubt evacuation plan to South America - with no many admirers and emulators...

 

[Patine]

I'm looking for a unit to represent these early Imperial Japanese rocket artillery used in WW2 for EotRS, seemingly mounted in a similar position to some mortar canons. Given that the biggest difference between the weapons in these articles is whether the IJA or IJN used them (given the two branches infamous rivalry for all resources and decision-making), and the third has a somewhat different appearance and size, but they all seemed to fulfill the same purpose (siege, "assistance,"), and all came out in the same year, historically, and given unit slots are bit tight, they could all probably be finessed into the same unit, for Civ2 purposes at the scope and scale of EotRS.

Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

20 cm naval rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Type 4 40 cm rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also, the ones from these three articles, which are all described as being involved as IJN garrison units, that all came out in 1944, and all have somewhat similar ideals behind them, if different applications and specific munition descriptions, could possibly all be represented by the same, if a separate unit.

Type 10 and Type 3 rocket boosters - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Type 21 and Type 22 rocket-bombs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

45 cm naval rocket - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Any attempt at these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[Tanelorn]

Venezuela 1930s and 40s

 

[Tanelorn]

The Italy of asia, Thailand. Despite direct opposition to and coming to blows with colonial France they basicaly wore French style uniforms with canvas webbing up to the Korean war. Also, a mix of Mauser rifles, Madsen LMG and Browning M1917s.

 

[Patine]

The Italy of asia, Thailand. Despite direct opposition to and coming to blows with colonial France they basicaly wore French style uniforms with canvas webbing up to the Korean war. Also, a mix of Mauser rifles, Madsen LMG and Browning M1917s.

Excellent! These will greatly add a touch up graphics update to a few units in EotRS.

I'm looking for a unit to represent these early Imperial Japanese rocket artillery used in WW2 for EotRS, seemingly mounted in a similar position to some mortar canons. Given that the biggest difference between the weapons in these articles is whether the IJA or IJN used them (given the two branches infamous rivalry for all resources and decision-making), and the third has a somewhat different appearance and size, but they all seemed to fulfill the same purpose (siege, "assistance,"), and all came out in the same year, historically, and given unit slots are bit tight, they could all probably be finessed into the same unit, for Civ2 purposes at the scope and scale of EotRS.

Type 4 20 cm rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

20 cm naval rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Type 4 40 cm rocket launcher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also, the ones from these three articles, which are all described as being involved as IJN garrison units, that all came out in 1944, and all have somewhat similar ideals behind them, if different applications and specific munition descriptions, could possibly all be represented by the same, if a separate unit.

Type 10 and Type 3 rocket boosters - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Type 21 and Type 22 rocket-bombs - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

45 cm naval rocket - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Any attempt at these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Speaking of EotRS, did you notice my request there? I ask because you actually do miss some of them, initially.

 

[Tanelorn]

Excellent! These will greatly add a touch up graphics update to a few units in EotRS.

Speaking of EotRS, did you notice my request there? I ask because you actually do miss some of them, initially.

 

[Patine]

Awesome! Thanks greatly, @Tanelorn!

 

[Tanelorn]

British African units of WW2.
These include the Kings African Rifles (East Africa protectorate flag) that formed the 1st African (later 11th East African) and 2nd African (later 12th East African) divisions and fought in East Africa (Kenya, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia) and Madagascar (June 42). I have found mentions and pictures of them in Syria and North Africa (Nov. 1941) but not many details. The 11th (by Fairline) went on to fight against the Japanese in Burma. After th war they also fought in the Mau Mau uprising and Malaya emergency. These included men mostly from Kenya, Uganda and British Somaliland.
The rest were made up of units from the Royal West African Frontier Force, i.e. from Nigeria, Ghana (then the British Gold Coast), Sierra Leone and Gambia (British West Africa flag). These also fought in Abyssinia, Italian Somaliland. Later (1943) they were reformed as the 81st and 82nd West African divisions and fought in Burma until the end of the war.

 

[Tanelorn]

French Senegalese Tiralieurs, khaki combat dress, battle of France 1940. Top right dude wields a west African traditional close combat weapon, the Coupe-Coupe, a massive heavy-bladed knife, also used as an entrenching tool. Up to 200,000 african tirailleurs (inc. north africans?) were active during the war, which constituted about nine percent of the French forces. Though the Tirailleurs Sénégalais had been promised that in recognition of their service they would become equal citizens of France, this pledge was not kept. The refusal to pay wage arrears due to released prisoners of war, led to several incidents of violence such as the Thiaroye massacre.
Think nothing of it, @Patine
They were actually among the first units to adopt this mustard-khaki uniform, back in 1917.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Senegalese Tirallieurs that weren't interned and subsequently murdered by the Germans in metropolitan France saw action with both Vichy collaborationist and Free French forces. They even clashed in the Levant and during operation Torch. The Vichy flag is the darker blue one, the battleaxe one is Petain's personal flag. Supposedly the fez wasn't worn on campaign, being covered with the tan cloth on the 1st row. The dark blue colonial service sidecap was also used instead, but the red fez is in all the pictures (people don't pose for pictures during firefights, I guess). They fought in West Africa (Gabon), Italy, and Corsica. The 9th Colonial Infantry Division fought from Toulon to the Swiss border between August and November 1944. After the Liberation of France, the Tirailleurs were replaced by newly recruited French volunteers, in a process known as blanchiment.
The Nancies harbored particular hatred against the Senegalese as the 1918-1930 allied Occupation of the Rhineland was maintained by a force that included between 25,000 and 40,000 French colonial soldiers. The Senegalese were accused of sexual assaults. Children resulting from these unions were stigmatised as "Rhineland Bastards" and under the Nancy race laws 800 of them were forcibly sterilized. In reality, most of the tiny multiracial population in Germany at that time were children of German settlers and missionaries in the former German colonies in Africa and Melanesia, who had married local women or had children with them out of wedlock.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

The writeups are always useful but I especially appreciate these askari factoids. I keep thinking back to Laurence Fox flipping his lid over 1917 after seeing Sikhs in the trenches.

 

[Tanelorn]

Arado Ar 68E, 1936 @ entry into service colours.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Tirallieurs Indochinois consisted primarily of the Tirailleurs tonkinois "Tonkinese Rifles" from north Vietnam and Tirailleurs annamites from central Vietnam. These were supplemented by the Tirailleurs Cambodgiens and Tirailleurs Tais (Thais from northern Laos and northwestern Vietnam). The 1930 Yen Bai mutiny resulted in increased recruitment of non-Vietnamese soldiers.
It looks like a dunce hat, idk.

 

[Patine]

The Tirallieurs Indochinois consisted primarily of the Tirailleurs tonkinois "Tonkinese Rifles" from north Vietnam and Tirailleurs annamites from central Vietnam. These were supplemented by the Tirailleurs Cambodgiens and Tirailleurs Tais (Thais from northern Laos and northwestern Vietnam). The 1930 Yen Bai mutiny resulted in increased recruitment of non-Vietnamese soldiers.
It looks like a dunce hat, idk.

This, too, is a good one for EotRS. Cheers!

 

[Tanelorn]

The 1936 Handley Page Harrow, 100 entered service in 1937 as night bombers/ transports, in time for the 1938 Munich crisis. They served in the latter role from 1940 to 1945, nicknamed the "Sparrow". The bomber itself was a converted transport design. They were also among the first aerial tankers used routinely for aerial refueling. During 1940, the two tanker aircraft based at Gander were pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
At the time of the Blitz, they downed four to six German bombers using experimental towed long aerial mines.
They finally took part in operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.

 

[Tanelorn]

Further mod into a Bristol Bombay, a rare but important transport. I am not very happy with it, though.