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...ng of the origins of fire there is no way to do so without killing and injuring hundreds. Not unlike the fighting of the USA in Afghanistan, the Israeli have to depends on operations inside the are...
...attempts to act against this places is done it appears - only from outside - as if some big strong state is fighting poor helpless population of civilians. We all have to think differently as the t...
My uncle who fought in WWII said fighting was the worst thing a person could experience and from the stories he told it sounds terrible. Why does anyone stay and not run away? Does anyone know? Alli
...ulation collaborated with the Germans. (We're also interested in what capability the French had to continue fighting the Germans after the collapse of the front in Belgium, and why they surrendered so...
...dy has some detailed information about the 33 Waffen SS Division (Charlemagne). (Mainly about their final fighting actions in Berlin 1945)...
...over which front is more important than the other. yes it was soviet russia who bear the most burden of the fighting and yes they would probably beat nazi germany without any help from anglo-american....
.... Did Stalin abandoned their pupils in Spain?. Would the history changed if the Spanish Republic staid on fighting until the star of the II-WW?....
...del predominated. I'm mainly curious, since some shotguns would have been quite effective in house-to-house fighting (like 12- or 16-guage repeater), while some would have been very ineffective (a sin...
... loss of Finnish territory? I know that Britain and Finland were techincally at war, but was there ever any fighting between Finnish forces and non-Russian Allied forces? Jim Bailey...
Is there a counter to the argument that the importance of D-Day is over blown because 80% of the Nazi forces were committed to the Eastern front fight with Russia? http://www.counterpunch.org/dday06
... neutral. What reason could there have ben to drop them leaflets (outside Turkey) other than Turkish troops fighting for allied or axis armies???...
...reign enlistment on a volontary basis was quite widespread in the German services. Apart from the appeal of fighting for communism, there is an appeal to kids of ages 17 to 22 (or there abouts) to the...
...France of Russian parents. He joined one of the foreign divs. of the SS when only sixteen. Very soon he was fighting in hand to hand combat on the Eastern Front. He was a very brave youth, a good man ...
...y right. As you know the partisan's war wasn't a one-way one against foreigners. Chetniks and Ustascia were fighting each other too. Something more, Dalmatian inhabitants didn't like the inlanders. ...
I am a fan of JohnSingleton Mosby & his Rangers (despite being a rabid yankee & a proud member of the Fighting 69th N. Y.) I recently bought 2 tapes of 'The Gray Ghost' 50s vintage series. It is the c
...had a portrait of Rommel and had a copy of his book, gee who could they be? *grin*. So did Rommel. Is the fighting retreat by the Afrika Armee generally regarded as a brilliant manouver in military ...
...rifted off-topic, concerning the Founding Fathers and their relationship to slavery, as well as reasons for fighting the American Revoluion. As long as this dicussion is tied back to the Civil War dir...
...area of which was captured by 9th Australian on 29 October. I'm surprised that telegraph poles survived the fighting; there were certainly no 'lamp posts'. Given that this was the major advance axis...
...ow a lot more about the subject than us Brits who mostly don't even know the basic cause, or what they were fighting for.)/...
...s north of Dyer's Bridge. This seems very odd and I was wondering if something happened at the end of the fighting on the 19th that left part of Van Derveer's men trapped and separated from the rest...
...ysburg. Their pursuit foundered naturally because of these obstacles, fatigue born of hours of marching and fighting, and separation of units from their officers. There were thousands of Union soldier...
.... It had only been approx one hundred years since the US gained independence from Britain, and here we were fighting each other. Are there any recorded thoughts from soldier's journals, etc? What ab...
...have to train their men to show initiative. They would have to slim down the rear and put more men into the fighting line. They would have to concentrate their officer training on tactical skills. B...
Just saw a very brief review of a new book called 'The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War,' by Brent Nosworthy, published by Carroll & Graf. The review
... history. I know that there were about 35,000 casualties at Antietam and 50,000 casualties in three days of fighting at Gettysburg. I can't find the breakdown between dead and wounded in these battles...
...re seeing some dazzling footage and reporting on the current war in Iraq from reporters 'embedded' with the fighting units. How close was the press to fighting troops in the ACW. We know Mathew Brad...
...o recall a Reader's Digest anecdote which purported to be a German communique describing an Italian platoon fighting over a motorcycle: after three hours they claimed possession of the rear wheel. Som...
...wondering about the actual manpower use in the war. From all I've read, it seems to me that the bulk of all fighting was actually done between the Russian and German armies on the eastern front. Some ...
...ould be attempting to help the civilian locals establish order and keep the civilians out of the way of the fighting troops. Can anyone tell me about the writing of such handbooks? What credentials ...
... April 1865 hostilities, to take command of the position. Unfortunately Major Booth was killed early in the fighting and Major Bradford was left to defend and command as best he could. It is interesti...
...haking my head over the lack of urgency of some British commanders on the drive north to aid the paratroops fighting for their lives at Arnhem. Horrocks made clear that 30 Corps was 'the cavalry' to t...
...awa(20th Armor, 713 armored Flamethrowers) but have been unable to determine what unit he was in during the fighting at Leyte Gulf. His memory is starting to fail and all he can't remember. All he can...
...watching 'Bastogne' from Band of Brothers, and I was reminded deeply why you use 18' of overhead cover on a fighting position (foxhole)... It seems that this is a remarkably obvious solution to enem...
... rate and two and a half the British rate.To escape criticism some staff officers and commanders blamed the fighting men for failures.(Canadians had very poor leadership but its fighting men have allw...
In the film 'Enemy At The Gates' (or something like that) it show Russian troops being sent to combat without a rifle. Did this really
... My thoughts is that, he thought it was impossible for his army to survive for very long and win the war by fighting against the grand army under Shermans command. And for this reason looked for alter...
...uld be obvious. Indeed, many pilots - including Bader - preferred a machine gun to a cannon armament for dogfighting at the time. Why was the possibility of mounting the cannon under the Spitfire's ...
...ht a war to keep their wealth. No accolades heaped on Lee will change the fact that he was a good general fighting for a bad cause. David Campbell...
...sight and he looked around' )'And every Yank that showed himself, he quickly brought him down' )'When the fighting stopped they found him, he was barely alive' )' But the union troops that he brough...
...ng the war that Lee concluded, before his surrender to Grant, that the CSA was not going to win and kept on fighting or did he beleive until the bitter end that victory against the Union was still pos...
...t a large portion of the Soviet Union that was NOT under German control. Wouldn't German have had to keep fighting the Soviets even after the fall of Moscow?...
...eless if Britain had fallen. Pattons kill score, was made when the German army was already worn down by the fighting in the east, the outstanding (despite inadequate commanders...
...ckly followed by a breaking of the Union blockade of Southern ports, perhaps even French and British troops fighting alongside the Army of Northern Virginia. But it may not be that cut and dried. The ...
...rican Revolution . The South was a rural and rugged country, twice as large as the U.S. had been in 1776. Fighting a defensive war the Southerners could count on high morale,interior lines,and knowl...
... five out of the ninety divisions Japan had deployed during the war. The vast bulk of the Japanese army was fighting the huge masses of people in China. Is this correct?...
...as in N. Africa in '42 or early '43, so we knew what the current world standard was, and the Brits had been fighting Mk III's and IV's for years. I've never understood why we didn't make more effort t...
Chums, I recall former UK govt minister Alan Clarke quoting that the UK spent 75% of national assets in the fight against Nazi Germany. Do any of you have links to pages that might offer figures along
...ications; its relations to its neighbors: have they been tranquil for several generations or has there been fighting; is its economy prospering or do its people feel that they are being left behind, e...
... 1944 it was quite apparent that the Allies were eventually going to win the war. What kept German soldiers fighting? I mean, Winter/Spring 1945 it was dead obvious what the impending results of the w...
Gadaffi was born when tank fire was a blazing in the sirte desert. An atlas of ww2 says that he was down there at the end of Feb 1941. Is there anybody who knows the approximate date when the tanks ar
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