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...s such as Poland and Georgia adapt to a reality when they are all grown up and supposed to fight their own battles or at least be part of this fight? Hard to say but it is a very important step in cre...
.... What happened to the WWI battlefields in France and Belgium during the WWII years. Were there any WWII battles on or near WWI sites? How did the Germans treat these places? Are there WWI areas of ...
...rtable. [Britain confirmed German radar in 1937 when] a sharp analyst noticed some strange antennae on the battleship GRAF SPEE operating in the Spanish civil war. [The antennas were] later determined...
... Russian soldiers in 'combat effectiveness' (the figures gained from detailed information on the course of battles). I wondered if this program was available to home users for their own analyses of co...
I have heard that many large battles on the eastern front killed more germans and russians then total combined losses of america and england. was the west front merely a costly diversion for the germa
...of these veterans who have every reason to be far more traumatized than even those who participated in the battles. But WHO were those guys? Where are they now? We should remember them....
...g China to put thier own textile factories out of business, meaning that when their bank went broke on the battleship race no new money went into the bank from exports after WW1 so British industry wa...
...d off Montevideo, on orders from Germany. After a running battle with 3 cruisers, the Graf Spee ('pocket battleship', actually a raiding cruiser) went to Montevideo, Uruguay for repairs....
... claimed that the American Revolution was America's bloodiest war. (He also claimed that all the important battles of the war were fought in the South, but...) Obviously the raw numbers of the ARW d...
...looking around (mostly on the Web) for info on where his unit went during their months in Europe, and what battles they fought in. Does anyone here have any info that could help me? Thank you very m...
Hi. I'm doing research and need some help. Looking for really minor battles where only a small amount of casualties took place. The battles need to take place in a Southern state...and the Union is th
... the sense that the defeated army was destroyed, or lost over 50% of its strength. In the vast majority of battles, defeated armies lost no more than 20%, and 30% was extraordinary. The Civil War wa...
...y from Norway who has worked as a guide at the land mounted 28 cm tripple stern gun turret from the german battleship Gneisenau. I've gathered about 500 pages of information about the subject and pose...
...cal aspects of the US Civil War. Discussion might include, but are certainly not limited to: *Specific battles *Slavery as it relates to the Civil War *Causes of the Civil War *The concepts of Sta...
... fighting each other. Are there any recorded thoughts from soldier's journals, etc? What about any other battles in other states- were there any cease-fires?...
...ith 50+ victories (Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Rechkalov, Gulaev, Vorozheykin, Yevstigneyev, Glinka, Klubov). In battles over Kuban - a time period of only 2 months - eleven Soviet fighter pilots achieved m...
...hat. > Slim was an exceptional general, but he fought a very > different war than that fought in Europe. Battles against > the Japanese in Burma usually consisted of fighting > fanatically tenacious...
There is a curiosity out there about the war, but not all of it concerns the battles, or even the armies, except to the extent that it was one retarded war: 'Hey Sarge, I'm quitting next week, so I ca
What kind of guy was ADM Lee? Was invited by ADM Spruance to attack Jap fleet with his battleships at night, planes to attack at first light. Lee declined, Japs got away. Spruance blamed for failimg t
...him Saratoga and Lexington plus four destroyer he maked a real fast drive, leaving all fancy and powerfull battleships behind this fast Task Force, toward Pearl Harbor. Amiral Yarnell know the Pearl H...
...ties in three days of fighting at Gettysburg. I can't find the breakdown between dead and wounded in these battles. Can someone point me to a reference that contains this information? I also know abou...
...nyone know where I might find more information on the 66th? I do know that the 66th took part many major battles, and it's a matter of family record that Uncle Sime was wounded scaling Marie's Heigh...
I know that the Confederates tended to named battles after towns, junctions or crossroads and the Federals named battles after geographic features such as streams or hills. Examples are: Federal: Bu
...arly to late 1942. Once the U.S. Pacific Fleet's capital ships had been lured into one or more great fleet battles and decisively destroyed, The Japanese war plans were to proceed with the next major ...
There were four battleships after KGV and PoW: Duke of York, launched 28 Feb 1940, commissioned 4 Nov 1941 Anson, launched 24 Feb 1940, commissioned 22 June 1942 Howe, launched 9 April 1940, commissio
In early 1943, a series of air battles were fought over the Kuban region of southern Russia. Now, I have no information as to details, but apparently it was during these battles that the Red AF gained
...ing Lee across Virginia. In the west Gen John B. Hood's Army of theTennessee was being ground into dust in battles at Nashville, Frankfort etc. The war was no longer in doubt & Grant had only to harry...
...then also. In terms of relative size, there are many accounts prior to 1862 of armies 2/3 the size winning battles campaigns and wars. For example, try the battle of Agincourt in 1415 where 11,000 Eng...
yesterday someone posted about von Mellenthin's 'Panzer Battles', specifically about Tigers vs. JS I's. someone else posted back saying we should trust what v.M. has to say, since he was there. i post
It seems this is a mix-up of several separate actions. The Soviets had two old battleships in the Baltic: the Oktyabrskaya Revoluciya and the Marat. These were used to give gunfire support to Soviet
... their raid against Pearl Harbor. Since they didn't target their secondary targets after they crippled the battleships and airfields, does that mean 'not much was done'? I've already read it. I sugg...
.... The Civil War Units File (CWUNITS) lists people who have information on a unit or ship (often rosters, battles, etc.) and are willing to help others research it. Some are experts; most are 'just' ...
Does anyone know anything about the ISE or the YAMASHIRO? These were battleships converted into half carrier half battleship that could deploy, but not recover, 22 planes. I am looking for more inform
just wondering what if any battles were fought in the mountains of Europe ? anything at all above tree line ? who were the combatants ? how did they fare ? and how did they cope with the problems of s
Were there any minor or major battles in the ETO that took place more or less on the same sites as battles in WWI? For an example example, weren't there major battles around Ornel in France in both co
... Lee entered the Peterburg defenses with around 63,000 men, very close to the number he had at the initial battles. John Lansford The unofficial I-26 Construction Webpage:...
I am a Grade 6 student who got a research project on World War II. I got many info on aircraft, battleships, subs and so-on on US. The only problem is that there is not much of Japan and Gemany's. Hop
...ith one of my friends. Now my question: Anyone always talks about the great advantage of higher grounds in battles. Of course Cemetery Hill and Little Round Top are great for that, but I do not unders...
...t that is NOT why they were there. Pearl was not being defended, Guam and the PI were. The presence of the battleships at Pearl, the point of the guy's question, was to project power forward, FASTER, ...
...turrets trademarked US Navy ships in WWII, appearing on everything from (later) destroyers to carriers and battleships. My question is - were they any good against A/C? I can't recall any reference to...
Cross posted. Here's the results for the Top Five Battles Survey. The html version may be found by going to http://members.aol.com/davebob1/awcusa_battles.htm Ballots First Place Rank Name Cast
...revor Dupuy) which attempted to quantity the quality of various formations vs. their opponents in specific battles and overall....does anyone know how valid the research was/is and if it is published ...
...' a portion of Polish territory ratherthan bombing Warsaw into rubble? In a war, when you win the border battles, you don’t stop and give the enemy the chance to rest and refit. You continue your ...
...r engagements including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Bentonville and never was wounded in any of those battles. Early on in his enlistment he was a colonel's orderly and then appointed regimental ...
... various types of ships used by a Navy. I'm thinking of terms like fleet carrier, escort carrier, cruiser, battleship, frigate, etc. Also, would these definitions be the same today as they were in W...
...iding as his primary goal. British cruisers although faster had weaker armament and shorter range, British battleships were slower than Spee. The only ships who could outfox Pocket Battleships were Re...
...e they completely on the American's side and did many of them suffer from the ravages of the bombs and the battles? Please e-mail me at...
... and was in combat from Christmas 1944 until the surrender of Nazi Germany. They fought in the following battles: Battle of the Bulge Colmar Pocket Ruhr Pocket The first chapter of his memoirs, 'A...
i've read 'Panzer Battles' and am wary of von Mellenthin. he reads like a hard-core nazi, talking constantly about the inferiority of the russians in every possible way, even turning their dogged resi
'The Last Battle Station', by Duane Schultz, St. Martins Press, 1986 gives a good account of the naval battles in that area at that time.
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