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...ese PWs were British (Norfolks?), not Canadian. 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade and supporting arms went to France via Calais and moved inland by train, but the contingent was quickly extracted (without...
I know that they are not. But they are proof that the enemy would use the bombing of friendly civilians and troops for propaganda, as you just did. It is political dynamite, as you indicated with Caen...
... C. His serial number was AO510453. He was in the European Theater in 1944-5 beginning in England, then France, then Germany. I am interested in finding our his specific route of travel through the...
...ieve the trauma, and come to peace with it all..
Arthur Kramer 344th Bomb Group,9th Air Force England France Belgium Holland Germany...
...i is an eyewitness account written many years before Solzhenitsin, boycotted by European leftists e.g. in France.
Jerzy Pankiewicz...
I found my father's name listed as buried at Normandy France cem., died 22 July 1944, combat organization as 121st Infantry, 8th Division. Where can I find anything, internet, books, etc, about t...
My father escaped from a labor camp in France and ended up in the French Resistence. Eventually he became a soldier in a Polish unit of the French Army. I hope to eventually find what unit he fought w...
...the front lines of American involvement in World War I during the Mexican Border Campaign and overseas in France with the AEF. Letters are posted on the same date they were written 91 years ago. Fasci...
My father was a doctor at a POW enclosure in Renne, France. Aug.1944-June 1945. It was operated by the Americans, he was in the Army Medical Corp. He was NOT a prisoner. Anyway, he said there were Ger...
...onference on Jewish refugees, as narrated in Michael Marrus's history of Jewish persecution in Vichy France. Several countries including UK and USA were still in 1942 issuing hundreds of visas ev...
...ate. And the B-17 never operated at 33,000 feet.
Arthur Kramer 344th Bomb Group,9th Air Force England France Belgium Holland Germany...
...hat fought in Italy is very large. Counting those that contributed a division or more, I can think of US, France, Britain, South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil, Poland and Italy off the top of my head on...
...s with multiturretted tanks from the period. Great Britain - up to four or possibily five models produced France - first models of Char series of heavy tank. Germany - 'Gross Tractor' two mo...
...pends on how bad someone wants this gun . I was given one free from a friend whom , was brought back from France in 1919 . I have studied all about this gun . You can find info on google from many so...
...o was reponsible among the western allied powers ? How much may have been shipped back to the U.S., U.K., France, Canada, etc. for testing purposes and what (among ground combat equipment) was high on...
...information on German efforts to aquire units of the surrendered French fleet in occupied Europe or Vichy France and didnt come across anything except for the wholsale scuttling of said ships when the...
...they would be able to achieve a revolution or to attack Hitler. Rommel did, however, plan to surrender in France if the Allies achieved a major breakthrough. This would happen when he felt that it was...
...al battalion.
It arrived overseas in December 1944 and is credited with participation in the Northern France campaign; days of combat, 91. It was used mostly to blockade and invest the German garr...
...er.
He violated the neutrality of Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland because it made it easier to attack France.
He violated the neutrality of Denmark because it was on the way to Norway
He i...
Hello! Polish airmen fighting on the 'allies' side in Britain and then France and Germany also painted dark cross symbols on their planes. The bombers crewes have done it too (at least I...
...'s area were actually under OKW (ie Hitler's) direct operational control.
There was also in France an additional army group command, Panzergruppe West, which could only be activated by H...
...igh-enough level. Don't ever underestimate the ability of
that Germany invaded, six months after France had declared war, and how surprised Russia was, despite all the warnings. Indeed, think...
...more intriguing is the question of what would have happened if Finland had accepted help from Britain and France in February/March -1940. Both countries offered to sent contingents to Finland (i.e. de...
...eaux’, the dynamism of the Nazi movement, domestic economic pressures, and the reactions of Britain and France all shaped Nazi foreign policy and forced Hitler to adapt to events.
So what do you...
...mations, and were able to use them well due to the narrow front. In fact, there were more German tanks in France than in the East as of D-Day (although some of these were in battalions working up befo...
...ned to 116th, 9th and 2nd Panzer Div - I think the 116th was committed at Mortain, 9th fought in Southern France, but the 2nd?
During Goodwood the British destroyed more German tanks (200) than we...
...ntrol Commision or Council??
The were responsible for governing areas liberated by the Allies (Italy, France, Germany)
I'm researching my grandfather who served in WW2 and found this on h...
...ter ju-290 aircraft is said by it's pilot Hans Pancherz to have flown to Cape Town South Africa from France.
The most astonishing claim by German armaments minister Albert ...
...an Units and then went east and led an attack across Luxembourg. In Feb 45 they were in Chalons-sur-Marne France where they trained replacements. In March of 45, Operation Varsity was the first airbon...
...merican front they could surrender, get a smoke, a meal, and peace. When my father formed the new unit in France, he looked at the 17 year olds and vowed to himself that he will not lead them into the...
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