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Weeks into his presidency, Abraham Lincoln was confronted with his first naval question: What to do about Fort Sumter? First, should he re-supply...
On 11 November 1918 at 11 am the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice, when Australians reme
...t talking without any depth usually makes people untouchable and doesn't help them prepare for a long confrontation or process....
...ompany, 3 company per batallion model when describing the Panzer Regiments. Most wargames (including EastFront and Steel Panthers) subscribe to the 3/3 model.
Ignoring the fact that the Panzer Regim...
... 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 suddenly) Any opinions on these issues, or books ...
i was armazed after reading your endless and senseless debate 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 pr
...ons about the pre-second wold war. I am specially interested in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Basque Front, the Basque Autonomous Government, the Guernica destruction by the Luftwafe, and the role...
... does not start the CSA nor is there a Civil War. I will give you that Lincoln has an antislave agenda upfront. Now exactly what is President Lincoln going to do in those four years that is going to t...
I have heard that many large battles on the eastern front killed more germans and russians then total combined losses of america and england. was the west front merely a costly diversion for the germa
...the ultimate price. Of survivors who still can't forget seeing their friends and comrades slaughtered in front of them.
But imagine what it was like to have to pick up the broken bodies day in day o...
... time German forces were still engaging Allied forces)
PzKpW-IVF2S - first service early 1942, eastern front PzKpW-V 'Panther' - first service July 1943, eastern front PzKpW-VI 'Tiger Ausf E' - firs...
...s policies cross over from legitimate criticism to mindless partisan bashing? How did the Republicans confront Roosevelt? How did the general public view criticisms of Roosevelt during the war?...
...r heard them mentioned in any of the D-Day programs that aired recently. I know Russia demanded a second front but don't know much more than that.
When did Stalin know the invasion was on?...
... 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/dday06042004.html
'...The Germans had ...
...ng rounded up and treated worse than the German POWs taken by the Soviets. During April 1945, the Soviet frontline combat forces were using a battlecry indicating they were on their way to England aft...
I've been playing the new TalonSoft wargame 'EastFront'. During play I noticed the T34/76 (M41?) typically engaging enemy tanks at ranges up to 1500 meters.
It was my understanding that the T34, esp
...reign 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 who probably thought he was fighting for his fathe...
...get, not once, of Allied assasination attempts. Most of the Allied commanders in the Western and Afrikan front had a healthy (unless you got killed) respect for Rommel. I remember there being some All...
...es of Harvard University.
How did Father Abraham answer those who criticized his sons absence from the front lines?
How would you answer your critics if you were responsible for recruiting and dra...
...ovements pointing to the west through Germany into the Benelux countries and France. There were several 'front lines' indicated, marked by comments such as 'D + 10 days to D + 15 days'. The last front...
...f VK 3001(H) - sort of oversized Marders with 12.8cm anti-tank cannons. These saw service on the Eastern Front, and I know if anyone has any data on when or where ? As they saw service during 1943, I ...
Hi, I have read somewhere of Russian patriotic songs being played for frontline Soviet troops in preparation of a fight, or even during a fight, to boost their morale.
Unfortunately I do not remembe
I just saw the movie Home Front about U boat attacks in the Gulf of mexico. I was wondering about the Shrimp boat owners the Government worried were trading with the enemy. I don't understand. Shimp b
where ABC weapons used on the eastern front, since the SU had'nt signed the geneva convention could they use ABC weapons ?
...can land and industry, and their economy and business practices have left America in the dust on several fronts.
And if that weren't bad enough, a few years ago some gutless wonders suggested that w...
... packing the Bialystock salient full of troops to counter-attack an invader ASAP (also Gen Pavlovs, West Front commander), Zhukov and Timoshenko developed a scheme of deeply echeloned defence to defea...
...mons were widely circulated: 'We shall defend our island whatever the cost...'.
Many Brits on the home front did more than just 'stand and wait'. They were organized into the Home Guard in the early...
...g to microfilm at the US National Archives:
89 PzVI 's(Tiger tank) were on-hand to the entire southern Front, Kursk, 4th July 1943.
Day (PzVI - Destroyed and Abandonded) 4 0 5 2 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 0 10...
...ing to steam their carriers into the Gulf of Mexico and bomb some dam in the SE. Was this typical of homefront paranoia or was there just something in the water there in Corinth ? :)...
... advantage of being the countries political leader as well. 4. Failures or brillian moves on the Western front.
These are just example, but anything you feel is worth talking about I would be intere...
how was the D-day used in soviet propaganda. I know the Russians had been 'nagging' about an 2'nd front in 41/42 to take the preasure of
...ific Fleet had their exercise to test defence of Pearl Harbor. Almost 200 U.S. Navy ship was gathered in front of San Francisco. From there they was supposed to attack. Now we come to something specia...
...3 Divisions make an 'Army', what in other armies might be called a 'Corps' Two or more 'Armies' make an 'Front' which would be organised or dissolved as the need arose.
Atlantean forces in WW2: In a...
...uppose that reserves and evacuated forces would have been sent to the South of France to open the Second Front where and wherever possible. Or would the allies have waited until there was another oppo...
...osen first would obviously have the advantage the current German disorganisation. The border defences in front of the allies could be quite strong, as the next 6 months would prove, so you can clearly...
When reading a book about the Western Front and the armored engagements that occured there, I am always curious as to what the Sherman Firefly's main gun-the 17 pdr would be equal to in terms of milli
...tion. Events like the Doolittle Raid and Midway and reports of other victories, no matter how small, got front page coverage. In spite of the hype about the danger of U-Boats, the extent of shipping l...
...he river as a supply line.
And the original line of defense would probably have been proof against any frontal assault by Grant. (Though these works were a far cry from the defenses of Vicksburg - b...
...ust for the proceeds of the gold sold that was under the name of Max Heiliger. How did this work. On the front line there was a special task force that basically took control of everything, in most ca...
.... The war monument listed about 15 dead in WWII, about equally divided between North Africa, the Eastern front ('Caduta in Russia'), and the resistance (I assume the Germans took them out and shot the...
...part in the war. in 1949 a british court martial sentenced him to 18 years for war crimes on the eastern front, but he served only four....
... me that the bulk of all fighting was actually done between the Russian and German armies on the eastern front. Some examples: The initial German invasion of Russia on June 22, 1941 was done by 135 Ge...
A heads up for anyone interested. On May 18th, Disney will release a two disk treasury called On The Front Lines that will contain the complete animated film Victory Through Air Power and dozens of tr
...e in '44.
However, today I got a copy of A Bridge Too Far and in it is a picture of a burnt out 250 in front of a building. It also gives me a numeral which I could use.
This 250 lacks the aerial ...
...ese battles that the Red AF gained a measure of air superiority over at least the southern sector of the front. Does anyone have any futher information on these battles ? Specifically, was this where ...
...een divided between Russia and Prussia.) Britain and France and other victors of WW1 guaranteed Poland's frontiers.
2. Hitler demanded in 1938 that Germany be enlarged to include the ethnically Germ...
Over at World War 2 OnLine there's a big debate about the front turrent armour thinkness of the Panzer III H.
Currently in game, it's set to a 37mm think curved mantlent, *with an addiontial layer o
... two and a half kilometres and knock of Shermans while a 75-mm gun from a sherman couldn't penetrate the frontal armour of these German tanks at any range.Someone sould have been held acountable for t...
... fall of 1862 was the only time when the South launched three simultaneous offensives on three different fronts, these being the Maryland invasion, the Kentucky invasion, and the Iuka/Corinth operatio...
...kely to fathom the character and soul of these Asiatics, born and bred on the other side of the European frontiers.'
'He disregards accepted tactical principles but sticks to the letter of his field...
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