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Forum Post Flight Officer Rank - US Army Air Forces
...-24 operations over Europe and have come across the rank of 'Flight Officer' in the US Army Air Forces. The two Flight Officers about whom I've read were both Liberator bombardiers. ...
Forum Post Defeat of Japanese forces in Manchuria by Russian Red Army
My parents told me that the Japanese forces stationed in Manchuria was defeated by the Russian army toward the end of WWII. However, I can't find any more information on this campaign. If anyone ...
Forum Post Why are all the police forces,local councils and magistrates...
Why are all the police forces,local councils and magistrates courts registered businesses? Even more shocking is the fact that JPMORGAN investment bank are listed as the owners of 'The magistra...
Forum Post Russian National Air Defence Forces WWII
Hallo, Does somebody have any information on the organisation of these Forces of the Soviet Union in WWII. *The Organisation of PVO-Divisions,-Brigades,-Regiments ect ect. I couldn't ...
Forum Post Australian Involvement In Overlord
The question was about 'Australian forces.' Australian people enlisted in or attached to British units do not coonstitute 'Australian forces.' (Passports are thus not just irre...
Forum Post Best Soldiers at WW2?
... WW2?Many times i have heard thet Finnish troops were the best.Afterall they crushed the superior russian forces at the Winter war....
Forum Post Bloodiest Japanese vs Australian battle!!
I'm sure that would be Buna. Generally separate, though the Commonwealth/Empire forces were much more eclectic than other armies. This was especially true in the air forces, where an 'RA...
Forum Post German Occupation of France
...;snip> After Dunkirk, the French were in an untenable possition. Not only had they lost the B.E.F. forces, but more than a 100,000 French trrops also left during that evacuation. When you add t...
Forum Post Post War destruction of German War Material
There was lot vehicles (not armed) sold or given away by the allied forces to the cities and welfare org.s in the hole US. I read once that US na dUK armed forces did not want to ship home lots of the...
Forum Post Soviet offensive, Jan-Mar 43
...operation commenced, the Stavka was planning to expand the strategic offensive's scope. While Soviet forces were advancing westward along the Voronezh and Rostov axes, on 20 and 23 January, the S...
Forum Post Are there any books on the Maori battalion in world war two
look up anzac books , they were with the australian forces in WW2
Forum Post Division, U.S. Army
The 91st Division. Reference is from 'U.S. Military Shoulder Patches of the United States Armed Forces, Third Edition' by Britton and
Forum Post 82nd Airborne Combat Jumps Question
I think they were staging for a jump in the Po Valley around March or April of '45, but the ground forces punched through and it was cancelled. George Z.
Forum Post russian war effort
...s the key to victory in world war two? When the Allies landed at Normandy in 1944, the bulk of the German forces were fighting on the eastern front, up to 80% in fact.Given these numbers it is suprisi...
Forum Post Percentage of America volunteers/draftee s?
I recall reading that of the approx 15,000,000 people who served in the US armed forces during WW2, 12,000,000 were drafted. This is a little misleading since, IIRC, it became almost impossible to enl...
Forum Post How long Germany would PAY for II WW to USA ......?
...r paid for the rebuilding of Western Europe after WW2. Even though later Germans paid taxes to support US forces in Germany, those forces were there in support of Germany and were no long an army of o...
Forum Post Would Manstein in command made a big difference?
...ely (given Hitler's control-freak nature), would Manstein or Guderain in command of the German armed forces in 1941 have made a vast difference to the Russian theatre? Regards,...
Forum Post I got a question., how Did HHitler Die?
Hitler committed suicide to prevent enemy forces getting information from him, this is not a detiled ccount of things just a general conclusion of what the facts show us.
Forum Post re Why US entered the war in Europe
... Pearl Harbour and that gave Churchill, who was half American, the chance to persuade Roosevelt to commit forces to the European theatre....
Forum Post Mauritius
...ng of some Jews to an island off the coast of Madagascar called Mauritius during WWII. I know that allied forces helped them. Could anyone point me to some reference material with details of this?...
Forum Post Relativity
Recently this NG has seen constant accusations from those sympathetic to the German Armed Forces. They have made accusations of massive atrocities committed by the Allied forces in the Second World Wa...
Forum Post Tank vs Tank
...managed to scrape together 185 tanks and assault guns and apart from Luttich at no point did the American forces face more than two Panzer Divisions (2nd SS and the remains of Panzer Lehr) and one Pan...
Forum Post WW2 Army History Bookset
Are they also usefull when I am mainly interested in the organizational history of US-Forces? I want to know more about this topic, also for the USAAF, the Navy and the Marine Corps too. Not so much d...
Forum Post D-DAY INVASION ORDER OF BATTLE
NEVER THE LESS DEGAUL HAD THE FORCES AND THE EGO. IS THERE ANY RECORD THAT HE DEMANDED THAT AT LEAST ONE FRENCH DIVISION BE INCLUDED IN THE INVASION ? HE CERTAINLY WANTED A FRENCH DIVISION TO BE THE F...
Forum Post France 40
... below army level lacked radios). The British were only slightly better. Many deficiencies of British forces in this period were not remedied for want of funds. But large sums were spent on the ca...
Forum Post looking for a ww2 book that details a first person perspecti...
...treat from russia. i am not sure of the name but the jacket cover had an artist rendition of german army forces fighting in the snow. the book would have been written in the 70's or later....
Forum Post US Military overseas locations post WW2?
...lliam Arkin (Ballinger, 1985) detailing U.S. military bases but outdated now. Algeria has French military forces. No U.S. bases in Africa, but mostly French like the French Foreign Legion and the Trou...
Forum Post Best American 3 and 4-Star Generals of WWII
...on't think much of his skills, (esp. when he went for Rome instead of pursuing the retreating German forces; he would not have been able to chase far, because of logistics, but he could have trap...
Forum Post German soldiers performance verses Allied soldiers
...pressive odds the German infantrymen did fairly well until ground into the dirt by attrition and superior forces....
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