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...ring and just after the war, that is a long story.
Anyway, this kid's father was a POW, captured in the attack on Belgium in May of 1940. My question is this: What happened to all those early POWs? ...
...sound response to what would have been our involvement in WWII (at least in the Pacific) if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor? My understanding is that Roosevelt wanted to bring us into the European...
...st Allied merchant ships, it could also be argued that being a 'loner' made the raider more vulnerable to attacks by a numerically superior foe. TWO German battleships would have been a nearly insurmo...
...he Winter war have ended differently or lasted longer? Would It still have been going on when the Germans attacked in 1941? How much would an allied Sweden have contributed to Germany's logistics and ...
...ce Warning? The Red Cross Connection'
Now I am not one who believes that Franklin Roosevelt knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened. Or at least without a lot of incontrovertable evide...
... that in the Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville campaign, Federal Cavalry leader John Croxton ordered an attack on Confederate pickets near Florence for the sole purpose of getting a prisoner. 'After...
...rding to a website called threeworldwars.com, they believe or have evidence that Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it started. The story begins on September 1, 1939, when the war ...
...nd ground troops accompanying the fleet to occupy Hawaii right after they launched the surprise air-naval attack on the Pearl Harbor? If they had taken over and controlled Hawaii, it would have been v...
...ion?
Also why couldn't Hans Luck get permission to repel the forces at Pegasus Bridge and then go on to attack the Americans on the beaches with his Panzers? Did he really have to wait for Hitler's ...
...nese had joined in the war in 1940, after the fall of France, avoided any conflict with the Americans and attacked the British colonial possessions, Malaya, Dutch IC, etc.. but avoided PNG, Australia,...
...heims. Command HQ at P1 had only poor contact with us at P2, where all our aircraft were engaged that day attacking the Japanese landing force and the barges coming up the river. Enemy paratroops land...
Good plan, poor execution. Remember that the plan on both days was to attack much earlier but (insert least favorite Confederate General here) dragged his heels enough that the attack wasn't launched
Germany attacked Poland on 9/1/39. That prompted the UK and France to declare war on Germany.
The USSR attacked Poland about two weeks later.
So why didn't the UK and France declare war on the USS
...r conversation, as if the bombing wasn't happening, and their only reccognition that they were even under attack came when they fished the plaster out of their drinks that a nearby explosion had knock...
...sergeant pilots in 601 Squadron.' I count 14 sergeant pilots. 6. He claims the motto of the squadron was 'Attack to Defend'.. I know that 601 had no motto. Tangmere used 'Attack to Defend'. 7. He said...
...m curious if anyone out there is able to recommend a quality English language book or two that covers the attacks on the Italian fleet at Taranto and possibly about the naval operations in the Med.
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...'Russia and Japan.' It seems most posters agree that Germany and Japan had no interest in coordinating an attack on the Soviet Union.
But what were the basic advantages of the Berlin-Tokypo pact, if...
Can someone tell me if the US tracked, spotted or attacked any Japanese Subs off the coast of Washington, California or Oregon during W.W.II.
...t spy in the German High Command was ever identified. It was he who allegedly game away the plans for the attack at Kursk or is this just another myth ?
Cliff Kennedy...
I just saw the movie Home Front about U boat attacks in the Gulf of mexico. I was wondering about the Shrimp boat owners the Government worried were trading with the enemy. I don't understand. Shimp b
...em for WW2.
> > Montgomery's strategy was to make the Germans > > run out of resources by launching one attack > > after another on different parts of the German lines. > > This is called dispersing...
I understand that the Germans attacked the Kursk salient in order to straighten the defensive line. However perhaps they should withdrawn along the other parts of the extended line and thereby saved t
... a large air group would be the best armour. As a consequence, when they did come under bomb and kamikaze attack, they were usually swiftly put out of operation, requiring dockyard repair, after only ...
...Barbarossa, they discovered that the Russian army was preparing to invade Germany. So, he claims that the attack on Russia was justified in the end.
Of everything i've read, i've not encountered thi...
...y Group at Caen), also the US logistics history makes it clear 21st Army group was expected to be able to attack on D+90 when the US forces would need around another 30 days to resume the attack.
Th...
...ntions or explains that the US military in Hawaii placed their forces on alert in the weeks preceding the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941 (even though they were not on alert on the fateful morning). I ...
...is sensational movie fare first and foremost or is it in fact faithful to the letter as far a the 12-7-41 attacks are concerned. I would love to hear a response from someone who was there. Unfortunate...
...ds out of range of artillery? Would it have not been better to just bunker down and force the Japanese to attack our fortifications? After all, having cut off their food resupply, they would starve in...
...ost of, it seems, the information available (1985-ish) regarding any indications of an impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He exonerates Roosevelt in this book, FYI, based on his interpretation...
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