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Does anybody know of any of the triumphs of the French secret service during WW2? Any info appreciated.
I believe the United States initiated its draft in 1940 or at latest 1941 in response to deteoriating world conditions.
For soldiers inducted in the early days, did they have to serve five full ye...
Each of the Allied powers had its own intelligence service or services. Each branch of service had its own intelligence division, plus there were 'civilian' intelligence units.
For examp...
...nelia Fort was instructing in one and had to evade several attacks. She later became the first U.S. female service pilot to die on active service killed in a ferrying accident. At least two civilian P...
...1923. A small group, the Stosstrup Hitler, would be the origin of the SS.
Saying the SS was the Secret Service of the Nazi empire is not wrong, but the truth is more subtle. The way it was founded...
...y simple, but there are some difficulties that you could encounter.
The custodian of all records of ex-serviceperson is the National Personnel Record Center on Page Avenue in west Saint Louis Coun...
...dron and the 761 Tank Battalion. Blacks also served in the Navy and Marine Corps., but all branches of the service were still segregated in WWII. Roosevelt began the intigration process with his Execu...
I remember reading, decades ago in a US service magazine of WWII vintage, of a US Navy petty officer with the Hitler surname. When asked about changing it, he replied TTE that 'the other guy shou...
..., playing with the St. Louis Browns. One 16-year old (Eddie Yost) played for the Senators then entered the service and rejoined the Senators as a vet.
Many, many sons of famous Americans served in...
The practice of offering a person military or service or jail did not end until sometime around 1980. I knew several GI's who had been taken to the recruiter (and induction center) in handcuffs. ...
...thing, to the point of converting the MG15 flexible aircraft gun to a ground gun. Yes, there were MG08s in service... along with just about anything else you could possibly imagine....
...FIC Thetaer(s) (plural to reflect Pac Ocean Areas [Navy] plus MacaRTHUR'S swpa)! Counterfieting was a service done from Washington, and the CBI/SEAC was not a PACIFIC Thetaer....
Hello,
I am trying to find out more about the service and campaigns of German E boats and there crews but am finding it very hard. Sites concerned with the Kriegsmarine either go on about big ship...
...mm of frontal armour, and their most heavily armoured AFV was the Stug IIIa-b (50mm), which barely entered service until mid 1940.
What is interesting about the Boys is that it is one of the most ...
...her worked in the local shipyards, and my mother christened one of these sea-going tugs. Some are still in service (private sector). I would appreciate hearing from anyone with knowledge of this opera...
...lew into or served at the American airbase at Narsassuaq in Greenland, called Bluie West One. It went into service I believe in 1942 and was a stop for aircraft being ferried from the United States to...
George, I wasn't going to mention that, but since you did, although none of my relatives were as highly decorated, that's the impression I have. One must remember, in Canada 41% of the men b...
...t US army has few regiments which exist as a regiment (i.e. with a regimental headquarters). When I was in service, the only regiments were ACR's, the 2d, 3d, and 11th Armored Cavalry Regiments. ...
Where was HMS Eaglet in WWII and what does FOGGO mean. I have a WWII service record with
HMS Eaglet FOGGO and cannot work out what it means!
Any help appreciated.
Peter
...d or 3rd time) and that perhaps he might not have been deceased as the story went. We have been given his service number.
Just wondering how I might further this line of enquiry and if you could off...
...hat doesn't matter as long as you have seen it all and now can relate more vividly to your dad's service those days ...
...to be French-designed (they did a lot of that, too).
With minor modifications, that mortar is still in service today....
... certain compounds it can also mean 'intelligence' ('Nachrichtendienst' - intelligence service) or '(tele)communications' ('Nachrichtentechnik/-satellit' - ...)...
While the P-38 replaced the P08 (Luger) as the 'standard' German service pistol, P08s were produced at least thru '44, and officers were allowed to purchase/carry 'personal' s...
National Archives and Records Service Motion Picture, Sound and Video Branch Washington DC 20408 Tel: 202 786 0041
or search their website.
Army Air Force combat subjects are Records Group 18C...
... certain compounds it can also mean 'intelligence' ('Nachrichtendienst' - intelligence service) or '(tele)communications' ('Nachrichtentechnik/-satellit' - ...)...
...s eligible to be drafted could 'enlist'. The most they could do was express a preference for one service or another at the induction station. From that date, the recruiting services of each ...
...d of WW1 or shortly thereafter, the Radial engine was in production, although I don't believe any saw service in WW1.
Effects from inverted flight are a carburation issue, not engine type.
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I served in a field artillery unit during my military service and as far as I know the differerence between a mortar and howitzer is that the barrel of a howitzer has some kind of 'lines' (s...
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