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...dy growth as a wartime commander-in-chief. Absent a Secretary of Defense, he would eventually become de facto commander of joint operations along the coast and on the rivers. Marc writes about the b...
...civil war I thought you would find this post interesting. I met many people and discussed many of the facts of the civil war on many occasions but I feel that somehow the decision to dedicate a post...
...ation. The army is training its soldiers to a certain small section of this range. The president and in fact the politicians in generals are not supposed to be limited in the same way. When the pres...
...er of ego, of appearing strong and powerful to their own people and to the other states involves so the fact that he says something should not automatically imply that there are really 5,000 centrifug...
... about Human Rights each time we see a risk from the outside. Sure we can talk about terrorism but in fact we as a nation have the tendency to react in the same way whenever we see or imagine enemie...
...e fundamental Islam that creates a ring of influence over many states and gathers support. It can be in fact that more these states start to cooperate their efforts against the US the more we would fa...
...get low enough to persuade Americans they shouldn't care about another expansion of American empire. In fact, the entire debate about bringing them home is puzzling and frustrating to McCain. After al...
...t we read in order to think and form our stand on things people who pretend to be working for us but in fact they are feeding us biased information. If you care for freedom of thought in this countr...
... and it still very touching for everyone that has a link to Jerusalem and Israel. The 1967 war was in fact very meaningful for the development of the entire region for better or for worse sending th...
...ents. Most wargames (including EastFront and Steel Panthers) subscribe to the 3/3 model. Ignoring the fact that the Panzer Regiment might never actually be up to full strength, which is the correct ...
... interesting how nations engage in this kind of tiptoeing. For example (and not meant to equate the two facts at all), Germany went to the trouble of faking a Polish attack on a Germany radio station ...
Can anyone help out on these two topics please. Surely one of the biggest factors in understanding RN operations in the first half of WW2 is how short legged their ships were and how they were always
...nscription refers to, ie a translation of the wording as well as approximately when the bayonet was manufactured, what type of rifle it likely worked with, etc. Any info would be appreciated....
...rnment the ability to read and understand all of their recoverable war-time messages. Machines were manufactured to de-code Japan's messages, and they were sent all over the world, but none was sent t...
...period starting about 150 years ago deriving from this situation: In Britian- a coal mine up north with factories handy and a bank in London In Germany- a coal mine in the Ruhr with factories handy an...
Can someone tell me the facts and give me an authoritative reference on the subject? My impression is that the industrialists had their own conservative parties to support.
...139. If Right did not triumph, then Might did. So be it. Why can't the Neo-Confederates simply accept a fact of history and go on from there? Bob Kolker...
Thanks to Gary Leopold and John Rainbird Gentry for the facts, figures, and references. When Sen. Shumer made his remark, the estimated death toll for 9/11 was over 6000 so he was apparently correct a
...e would be grounded. Only German production sites: - Tornesch near Hamburg, only ethylene dibromide factory - Gapel near Berlin, 100 tons tetraethyl lead per month - Frose near Magdeburg, 300 tons...
... after Northerner Eli Whitney had designed his famous cotton gin, and cotton production was booming. In fact, Southern cotton production increased from an estimated 11,000 bales in 1793, to an estimat...
The fact is, the pope altho not knowing all the particulars certainly would have known that mass killings were going on. it may be that he did not want to know. However, if he had excommunicated catho
althou both contributed to the success of the war, when the question of durability comes up. one factor has to be taken into consideration, the B-17 was basically an electrical aircraft, almost all of
...ty ideals (which likely vanished in the first exposure to combat). I wouldn't condemn them, despite the fact they were part of a very horrible system. Once you get involved in any military system, pro...
...s a Roman Catholic. (It's amazing: the greatest murderer of History as a Roman Catholic) As a matter of fact he joined a group of teenagers in a beneditine church to sing Gregorian Songs in the Choir ...
.... In his letter, Rich contests the argument that the arrest of Maryland state legislators were the only factor that kept Maryland in the Union. The relevant paragraph from his letter is: 'On April 1...
...me and knowledge of these prisoners was never admitted to by the Soviets. I'm wondering if there is any factual information or documented evidence to back this up. Luc DiGuglielmo...
Hi 'together', Im searching for any (-ANY!-) kind of -WWII- information (facts, maps, links, hints, names, departments, organizationes ...) about: A) POW-camps for German soldiers in France, espec
...n in April 1945. I have heard small bits of information over the last few years that indicate he did in fact die in Berlin. After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, apparently some previ...
... available for the following: Italians in Abbyssinia (evidence? I thought this was a well established fact) Japanese 'during their occupation of China' (This one's a little more fuzzy, but once agai...
... discovered in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. The bunker was about 30x90 feet and contained some artifacts, etc. as well as some fresco paintings on the walls depicting SS guards protecting the cit...
Around 1981 I was working in a manufacturing plant and some of my work mates and I were fond of quoting lines from The Firesign Theater group. One of the lines that we would say to each other was, '
...to this subject, and has anything more been learned? Did the 'Blood Tubs' exist? If so, did they in fact intend the death of Lincoln? If so, was this intent in earnest or mere braggadocio? Or ...
...n time and spirit. I think such reasoning may taint Mr. Hoover quite needlessly. Even stranger is the fact that both of us argue about a book we have not read ;). I will do so as soon as I can simpl...
...Generally, I think if you look at Lincoln's grasp of military strategy, it was actually pretty good. In facts, the problem Lincoln had was that his officers with their standard way of doing things, re...
...t much harder to follow than other major series such as The World At War. I have attributed this to the fact that it is aimed at an American audience, and Americans obviously know a lot more about the...
...to lay it on the table, my feelings of Hitler are that he was an extreme idealist who shunned logic and facts on history, sociology, culture, and politics. And we all know what harm that caused. And t...
...control and as such were exempt from the draft (the Germans preferred all able bodied Czechs to work in factories for them anyway), but was there a volunteer Czech SS unit like there was in Slovakia? ...
...uban - a time period of only 2 months - eleven Soviet fighter pilots achieved more than _ten_ kills. In fact, B.B.Glinka achieved ten kills in fifteen battles. This included battles against JG 'Molder...
...my stood head and shoulders above > every other Army perpetuated by Gudmundsson in particular. So the fact that Germany controlled most of Euope by the end of 1941 was an act of God? > > The only ...
...wned, research projects we had done, all the usual attempts to claim bull-geek status in the absence of facts. After a couple of minutes, he moved on to other subjects and I quietly resolved to look u...
...arkable document. It depicts a middle-class British family bravely facing the Nazi onslaught. It was in fact pure propaganda, a picture of how people 'ought' to behave. It became a kind of self-fulfil...
...HVAP 184 Kwk 42, shot 177 17 pounder, shot 170 Some people seem to want to make a big deal out of the fact that the German guns (the 88/71 also) have slightly better performance with shot than the A...
...ntry divisions had been motorised. The earlier leg infantry formations have been left in to reflect the fact that sometimes motor transport and attached units were not available. Atlantean Marine Re...
Discussions of Japan's surrender as negotiated or not have mostly overlooked one significant fact: that the Potsdam declaration called for the unconditional surrender *of the Japanese armed forces*. S
...hostile naval fleet attacked its warships. The belligerents responsible for this warfare was the CSA, a fact well known to the entire world. Additionally, many CSA officers, military and civilian, wer...
...have moved the capitol to Boston or New York as it was in danger during nearly the whole of the war. In fact Washington was in such fear of a little guy called The Gray Ghost (John Singleton Mosby) & ...
...ry. Uncle Adolph was a Sgt in Company K, and Uncle Simon was a 2nd Lt in Company C. This is a matter of fact, as I've seen the government records in Lexington, MA. (if you're curious about the names, ...
..., and the watertight integrity was not restored to its pre-Coral Sea condition, arguably a contributing factor to the loss of Yorktown at Midway. 3. Midway. Yorktown is damaged, repaired, the crippled...
...to occupied territories? I came across an account that the Allies accidentally bombed a Swiss munitions factory but have been unable to find and other sources to corroborate this....
...people in world war 2. Since im polish and know the history of my country very well i told her that the fact she stated was clearly wrong. Well i've read some articles saying i was wrong was I?...
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