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... Anglo-American force was efficient and the crews shared a mutual respect.'
'It simply recognises the fact that when precision targets are bombed by the Eighth Air Force in daylight, the effort shou...
...at of these early war prisoners? Where did they get sent to when they were captured? Labor camps, labor factories, or were they released (I am doubting that) or sent to general concentration camps...I...
...dicates that the first Pursuit Groups of Black Fliers NEVER lost an aircraft *they* were escorting. How factual is this, and what is the context if it is on target? I mean, there was a point in the wa...
...e class, my proffessor swore that he had heard that Mussolini never participated in world war 1, that infact he dodged the war entirely. Yet in my history book, it says he participated, was wounded by...
I don't know the actual numbers but it is a fact that more people were drafted in to WW2 than volunteered. The opposite was true for Vietnam where despite all the stories of poor draftees getting the
...acy, Violet Sweet Haven, Ziff-Davis, Chicago, 1944.
American and Japanese Relocation in World War II; Fact, Fiction & Fallacy, Lillian Baker, Webb Research Group, Medford, 1990.
Shadows Dancing: J...
...usible way the Third Reich could have succeeded in the total conquest of Europe would have had two main factors. Firstly, the tactics employed in the Battle of Britain would have had to have been dras...
... and her cargo of Uranium Oxide) pages 228-231.
Henshall, Philip. 'Vengeance Hitler's Nuclear Weapon: Fact or Fiction?' Alan Sutton Publishing Limited,1995
'In 1996 articles in British (Mail on Su...
...batteries.
They site a few other examples.
What was the make up, in terms of caliber, model and manufacturer, of the weapons in these defenses?
Does anyone have a map of Rumanian coastal fortifi...
I read somewhere Stalin butchered more people then Hitler. Is this true? I would like some cruel facts about Stalin's purge figures, camps,
...he atomic bomb against Japan was wrong. Frankly, I don't understand how critics ignore obvious historic facts, and I'd to understand what their reasoning is.
1) WHY DIDN'T JAPAN SURRENDER IF IT WAS ...
...actually sabatoged the German war effort by purposely making defective weapons.
BobG
Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution explains the fact of...
In the course of the war, Germany used countless models of pistols, from all sorts of manufacturers. So, even though many models are known, production dates, etc...it seems very little is known about
Hardly a handful. A division of elite troops defending extremely rugged terrain. There were also large numbers of other German units in Italy. A check in one of my books lists the following Divisions
...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...
...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...
...ast doubling the ratio between Sherry's claim and usual estimates form the remaining cities (that is, a factor of 6 or more), even using conservative figures for these three great raids.*
I do not h...
... completed it i'm missing 1 bit of information: i don't know what the handgun was they used (-which manufacturer-), i believe they where revolvers and if i just know the name i could look up more info...
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> > I thought a lot of that had to do with the fact that Hitler decreed it >> was to be used as a bomber. This forced the designers to go back and tinker
Agreed. Hitler's enthusiasm was mis-u
... radio. The airport controller told me a Dutch pilot had reported that the position at Palembang was in fact still unresolved, that the P1 defenders had driven back the Japanese paratroops, and that t...
... me would be a highly coveted prize and that one would most surely want to apply for it, even after the fact, but he has no such medal.
My investigation is purely personal and of intellectual intere...
...ather than any 'racial' characteristics of its people, i.e., anything genetically transmitted. Historic factors in this sense include, but are not limited to, the geography the country finds itself in...
...ed hours between change ?
Except the alloy, is there any other design feature or just because the manufacture capability made the jet engines used by UK and USA better ?
Thanks. If there is any ar...
..., planes, tanks etc for the various combatants before and during the war? I would also be interested in factories and raw materials.. Thanks
Hms...
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
...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? ...
Dresden?
David Irving's The Bombing of Dresden (about 1966) is highly factual. Decades later this specialist author had become the captive of his material, but that is another story. Irving's Dresde
Have their ever been any allegations (or even factual records) of the allies committing any wrong doing in WWII?
I have read reports that the allied bombing of Berlin was in breach of the Geneva Con
...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?...
...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 ...
...e Pour le Merite, and I can find very little about it in connection with WWII. So far as I can tell, in fact, it simply wasn't used. I wonder why not.
I realize it was an imperial decoration, and th...
Any thoughts on whether the Marine's style of battle was inappropriate and in fact caused more casualties than were necessary in the PTO during WWII?
...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....
...s of oil as well as imports from Venezuela. It was only after the war that the Middle East oil became a factor in US needs, but even today, only 16% of the US oil needs are met by imported oil, most o...
...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...
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