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...ainly Britain of course responded to Hitler moves 70 years ago to the way even the smallest aggressions and invasion attempts are answered immediately by the west 70 years later.
In the context of t...
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The Russian invasion to South Ossetia is a new event that we are trying to see as an old one.
What I mean is that instead of seeing the situation in its unique con
...l), Germany went to the trouble of faking a Polish attack on a Germany radio station as the pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939. Why bother? I guess no nation wants to admit they are being the ...
Does anyone know how Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) was announced?
That is, what I am interested in is how (and when) was the announcement made to the Germans and the
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It seems that, after Pearl Harbor, the common populace of California was expecting iminent Japanese invasion of the West Coast. Several questions: 1. How likely did the US military deem invasi...
...r advanced infantry, airborne, and mountain climbing training they were to be used in the 'proposed' Allied invasion of the Balkins. When Allied plans were canned the G/A unit was parachuted into Nazi...
...th their so called 'superior soldiery' the wehrmacht hold up their west front and sucessfully beat off ally invasion. but so what? the american tested their nuke and put it into mass production. they ...
...he two countries were 'friends'). They, of course, had the T-34. And it hands down takes the award from the invasion of the Soviet Union until the Germans produced a response. In its original configur...
... 750 troops died training for D-Day. That is surprising to me.
Also said 19,000 civilians died during the invasion. Any comments to these no.'s?
Why couldn't we get the tanks to shore on D-Day? Co...
Last nite I watched the movie on Eisenhower's invasion of Normandy - one scene depicted him sending another General back to Washington because of drunkeness
...ently. I know Russia demanded a second front but don't know much more than that.
When did Stalin know the invasion was on?...
...the German Army was so imcompetent on D-Day. It seems they should have been able to easily repel the Allied invasion.
Why did the Germans perform so miserably? Did they just assume the weather was t...
...rs 'AS' appear on the fuselage and the tail number is 472217....
The wing tips are clean and there are no invasion stripes.
Anyone have a reference source for the 'AS' to find out what squadron th...
Today I passed by some adventizement for a documentary film on the Berlin airlift. The cinema poster had been decorated with lots of photos and documents from the cold war. One document struck my atte
... motives for the bombing. Was is to destroy air targets to help shore up defence in Indonesia or was it pre invasion bombing.
Furthermore is there any info on actual Japanese plans for the invasion ...
...units, being > critically short of vehicles. (By way of illustration, in > 1941, half the entire Barbarossa invasion force -77 > divisions - was reliant entirely on horse-drawn transport). > It sems p...
...more than just 'stand and wait'. They were organized into the Home Guard in the early days of the war, when invasion seemed imminent. These guard units would most likely have proven ineffective; at mo...
... view used to be, on the relation between events before and after June 1941. Did the Soviets think of their invasions of Poland, Finnland, etc. as part of the Great Patriotic War? Or did that war, in ...
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Some historians presume that the Russians were surprised by the Germans because they were preperating a invasion of Germany. That was why large amounts of Russian troops were so near the border.
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Before German invasion fleet arrived, Hitler had merchant ships in the harbour at Narvick, with troops hidden in the holds.
Curious about how many ships, how many troops, and how long they were ther
...reasons of security. Some of the officers lost were 'Bigots', entrusted with knowldge of the details of the invasion, including where and when. A large naval operation was undertaken to recover their ...
...ching another major attack.
Yes folks, the LST determined much about when, where and in what strength the invasion would be done and the jerrican numbers and the trucks to transport them determined ...
In a the next several weeks, I will be visiting Normandy for the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion. I am interested in finding any US unit histories online so I might actually trace their progres
Germany attacked Poland on 9/1/39. That prompted the UK and France to declare war on Germany.
The USSR attacked Poland about two weeks later.
So why didn't the UK and France declare war on the USS
...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 German, Finnish, and Rumanian divisions....
...State of South Carolina an independent sovereignty,' and lastly, when my old boyhood's friend called for an invasion, it was evident that both the advocates and opponents of secession had read the por...
1. Modern Poland was created by the Treaty of Versailles that ended WW1 in 1919. (For the previous 150+ years Poles and Poland had been divided between Russia and Prussia.) Britain and France and othe
... sould have been held acountable for this lack of forsight.If Hitler knew what he was doing in Normandy the invasion would have ended very quickly....
...is is in response to an item dated 29.3.97 but since deleted from Larry Jewell criticising John Ray Skates' Invasion of Japan.
What we are discussing here are two things.
1) the figures which the ...
Am attempting to write down some of late husband's experiences for my children and hope someone in this group can help me.
What branch of service operated the landing craft which carried soldiers fr
...n specific unit locations during the war. For example, what German troops were located in Norway during the invasion of France, what naval units were where during let's say Operation Barbarossa etc. A...
... POINT BLANK was about. Point Blank was to cripple the German's ability to reinforce their troops after the invasion had begun. This was to be done by crippling the transportation facilities in France...
...East Prussia with the rest of Germany. Mussolini did try to propose a conference like this after the German invasion of Poland, but the British would not hear of it unless Hitler pulled back out of Po...
...federacy if Sherman only wanted to hurt the deep southeast? Or even better / worse , could he launch a semi-invasion into the north which could totally mess things up by going into Kentucky, and beyon...
...id the US Navy fail to act against the U-Boats? Were they trying to save their warships in case of a German invasion and willing to sacrifice a certain number of merchant ships, or did it just not hav...
...e when the South launched three simultaneous offensives on three different fronts, these being the Maryland invasion, the Kentucky invasion, and the Iuka/Corinth operation. I really think that this wa...
...istic tasks to thier troops, not giving them the adequate support they needed to do that. For example , the invasion of Greece was a totally wrong initiative, decided by Mussolini when he was blinded ...
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I suspect two bombs on Germany would have quickly ended the war right then, saving the need for the D-Day invasion and slow march to Germany. It would have saved thousands of Holocaust victims. It w...
... June. I need to know what fighter units were defending the Palaus in the months immediately before the U.S.Invasion. All directions or suggestions gratefully accepted.
William H. Shuey...
Faced with the imminent defeat of the RAF and all that meant in terms of a German invasion, Churchill made one of the most difficult decisions in history. He intentionally provoked Hitler into bombing
I read I while back in a book about Hood's 1864 invasion that more southerners were killed at Franklin than any other day of battle. Is this true? And what was it about this battle that made it so dea
...istroical study, 'The German Northern Theater of Operations' by Earl Ziemke. It has details of the proposed invasion of Sweden for which 25 Panzer Division was the key unit...
...n occupation of Denmark, and that it is a gross over-simplification to call the U.S. and U.K. actions as an invasion. History imposes another imperative, that is the loyalty of the population within a...
I read that the Allied pre invasion bombardment ceased prematurely to the invasion, or at least it did not have the effect as expected.
Question. As the concrete gun bunkers were designed to withsta
Various contributors to this group discuss the possibility of Germany invading Britain after the fall of France. Given the amount of planning and preparation that this would have required, was there e
Hello all,
Was the invasion of Poland the final goal of Hitler or just a step to launch an attack on the USSR? Thus the pact with Stalin being only a way to gain time.
Regards,
...ee that the clash in question occurred on November 9, 1942, on D + 1 of Operation Torch, the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa, during the invasion of French Morocco commanded by (you gue...
...ont against sabotage. Some reports state that he helped organise some of the Italian Mafia to aid an Allied invasions whilst others state that this is ridiculous and even Luciano in his own biography ...
...s; and I've also heard that, while the American generals opposed it (preferring to wait for a cross-channel invasion of France), the British generals were for it. Which is it?...
...lus ships, subs and aircraft?
Was the force large enough and its deployment good enough to make an Allied invasion a doubtful proposition?...
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