introduction
In the Second World War, dozens of countries and regions involved in this war, the scope of the war is rare in the world, from the European battlefield to the Asian battlefield, from the Atlantic battlefield to the Pacific battlefield, it can be said that it affected the whole world, although in the end, China, Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States led the Allies achieved the final victory, but this war caused a total of about 90 million casualties, even if the victory is also a tragic victory, the Allied generals sacrificed in World War II, of which the highest rank is the following.
Zhang Zizhong
General Zhang Zizhong was born in the late 19th century, in the Battle of Zaoyi in 1940, General Zhang Zizhong and the Japanese army fought fiercely in Xiangyang, and finally martyred, General Zhang Zizhong was a lieutenant general in the National Revolutionary Army plus the rank of general when he died. In fact, it is said that General Zhang's merits are enough to be promoted to general, but the number of generals is full, and can only add the rank of general, and at that time, General Zhang Zizhong was already the commander-in-chief of the Right Wing Corps of the Fifth Theater and the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Group Army, and the Right Wing Corps had jurisdiction over the Thirty-third Army (including the 59th, 77th, and 55th Armies) and the Twenty-ninth Group Army (including the 45th and 67th Armies) a total of five armies, of which the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-third Group Army and the commander of the Fifty-ninth Army were concurrently held by Zhang Zizhong. Among them, the eight Kuomintang second-class generals who died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression were all posthumously awarded the titles, which is incomparable with the rank of lieutenant general plus the rank of general before General Zhang's death.
Kirponos
Kirponos was a general in the Red Army of the Soviet Union, who succeeded Zhukov as commander of the Kiev Special Military District in 1941 and was awarded the rank of general in the same year, and was appointed commander of the Southwestern Front after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War.
Chernyakhovsky
General Chernyakhovsky was the youngest commander of the Soviet Army Group in World War II, the Commander of the Front, who had been the commander of the Third Belorussian Front before his death, was awarded the rank of Grand General, and in 1945, together with the Second Belorussian Front, launched the Institut-Königsberg Campaign, but unfortunately was shot and killed on the battlefield.
epilogue
In fact, among the senior generals killed by the Allies in World War II, there were several people who were higher than General Zhang Zizhong, such as The British Trafford Leigh Mallory Air Marshal (then The Allied Air Force Commander) and Admiral Burrent Ramsey (then the Allied Navy Commander), in addition, the highest general who died in the United States was Lieutenant General Buckner, commander of the 10th Army, but Marshal Mallory and Admiral Burrent Ramsey were killed in a plane crash, and they were not the generals who died. The commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Buckner, was slightly inferior to General Zhang Zizhong, who was already the commander-in-chief of the Right Wing Corps of the Fifth Theater at the time of his death, and was higher than Lieutenant General Buckner.
And can be compared with General Zhang Zizhong only the Commander of the First Ukrainian Front of the Soviet Union General Waduddin and the Commander of the Southwest Front General Kilbonos, these two General Waduddin died because of being beaten by a cold gun and lost too much blood, Although General Kilbonos died in battle, but compared with the entire Second World War, the intensity of the war in the Chinese battlefield was even worse than that of the Soviet-German battlefield, although the Chinese army was backward in equipment, but the will to fight was more tenacious, and the generals of the Chinese army were also forward and brave.
Therefore, as for who the top general of the Allied powers died in World War II, I personally feel that general Zhang Zizhong was the first to be recommended, and others such as Mallory, Vadudin and others were not killed in battle.
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