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...war and armed conflicts. Letters and diaries held in the Memorial’s collections bring to light what soldiers were doing on the 11th of November and how they felt about their current situation....
Quite a few soldiers from Illinois have participated In the second world war. Now those Illinois veterans of World War II have their own website where thay can share their stories, memories and inf
... There are thousands of way to think, plan, choose and act in any given situation. The army is training its soldiers to a certain small section of this range. The president and in fact the politicians...
Some of the missing bodies of Australian and British soldiers from the Fromelles fight during WWI 1916 are probably going to be found at the original mass graves that the German used to bury the dead
...st admit that I was taken by surprise by this video when McCain says that it is not important when American soldiers would be able to leave Iraq' having heard him before talking about a distant timeta...
...other perspective but if I were to evaluate the results of the war and the influence it has on the American soldiers and the Iraqi's population then essays such as this would play a major part. Ther...
...ate and end up as a hostage. The second thing is that there is no clear separation between civilians and soldiers. It is much harder for a state do respond on attacks or even initiate attacks if th...
...fect of World War II. I'm looking for answers to questions like 'Was there any poisonous gas used that made soldiers psychotic?' Or 'Were soldiers emotionally affected by some of the sights of the war...
... combat performance by different forces, and gives the following values 1 German = 1.2 American = 2 Russian soldiers in 'combat effectiveness' (the figures gained from detailed information on the cour...
...captured. This seemed strange to me as common sense and history (the Gulf War) would suggest that conscript soldiers who are cold, starving, isolated, and prevented from taking effective offensive act...
what was it for, holding granades ?
...Kiska islands as part of a diversion away from the main operation at Midway. Films from there show Japanese soldiers interrogating Americans who look like civilians (they didn't look like they were in...
...ments. It also has an exhibit on Civil War medicine, complete with bones and skulls from wounded and killed soldiers. Special attractions include the leg of Dan Sickles, shot off at Gettysburg, and bo...
...cupying troop behavior. I have taken a class on the war in the pacific and know fully well how the Japanese soldiers treated the people they were occupying. What I don't know is how the German soldier...
... heard the story of the German MG-gunner at Omaha Beach, who fired several hours during D-day at the landed soldiers, killing hundreds - perhaps thousends of them. 1. Question: Why was is not possib...
...there are less horror stories about them than from the rest of the Italian army weapons... 3. The Italian soldiers were generally not so enthusiastic about the war. This naturally lowered the morale...
...hink communism was seen as a potential scourge to the human race at that time, was it not, so many of these soldiers also had lofty ideals (which likely vanished in the first exposure to combat). I wo...
Recently, the following link was posted in soc.culture.asian.american about 'Chinese soldiers' in the (American) Civil War
... against the Americans and British and begin the Cold War. Sanders, Jim; Sauter, Mark; Kirkwood, R. Cort. Soldiers of Misfortune: Washington's Secret Betrayal of American POWs in the Soviet Union. W...
... can. Unfortunately, I didn't appreciate the subject in high school and didn't retain much. I read 'Citizen Soldiers' by Stephen Ambrose when I got it for Christmas, which I thought was an amazing boo...
Many years ago I read somewhere that Allied soldiers were kept in Soviet prison camps during the war (for what reasons I don't know) and some were kept prisoner for many years AFTER the war was over!
...mation (facts, maps, links, hints, names, departments, organizationes ...) about: A) POW-camps for German soldiers in France, especially: 1. city of 'Angouleme', 2.'Poitiers' 3.'Bordeaux' (in, nearb...
...in accordance of 'Circular 31.' I believe the Circular concerns discharges granted to wounded or furloughed soldiers who were not properly accounted on their unit's muster-out, but have yet to read te...
...'t seen much that answers - how many of the cavalry units were men on horseback and how many were just foot soldiers attached to a cavalry unit? Thanks. Regards,...
...er near the Bliss Farm stood up and yelled toward his Northern counterparts, 'Don't fire Yanks'. Some Union soldiers raised their guns but others asked them to wait. The Confederate walked out between...
In the 1977 movie, 'Cross of Iron', the soldiers sing several songs at Lt Meyer's birthday party. Does anyone know the words (in English) to any of those songs?
...nadians) have faced in combat (not just knocked out due to air action) from June 6th to September 1944 ? US soldiers faced large numbers of Panthers, but I have my doubts about the number of Tigers....
...tatements that refuted or backed away from colonization of blacks? Was supporting voting rights for black soldiers a back door way of refuting colonization? Or apples and oranges? Or something else?...
Can anyone recommend a book or article(s) that discusses cheers used by Civil War soldiers? In particular, I am interested in trying to determine if there is modern concensus on what such cheers as 'h
... hours of marching and fighting, and separation of units from their officers. There were thousands of Union soldiers milling about in the streets to be trapped or captured. Under such conditions, orga...
How accurate did the movie ' The Horse Soldiers ' actually get to the real raid. Was it a large success and have any significant impact on the war considering it was reasonably early in the piece. Did
...st offices all over the South and reselling them on the secondary market. There are all sorts of tales of soldiers helping themselves to whatever food they could steal by walking into houses and tak...
...ssians are just compliant. The Japanese were positively enthusiastic. The Soviet Union had to conscript its soldiers. The Japanese volunteered in droves. When a law came down, the citizens marched to ...
I have been reading some of the posts concerning World War II. I am doing a project in Global Studies regarding the German soldier's (or Germany's) viewpoint during the Battle of Argennes (Battle of t
... For nearly four full years the CSA waged violent and bloody war against the United States. Over 300,000 US soldiers were killed, hundreds of thousands more were wounded and millions of dollars of its...
The British did not want to risk the outfall of sending British soldiers to a potential massacre(There were just under 10% Brits in this Canuck division) own and the Yanks were not fully involved yet
...n the Dachau area. Dachau actually consisted of a main camp and scores of satellite camps. One of the 522nd soldiers has since been quoted as saying they shot the lock off a gate at a small satellite ...
just wondering which armies had the more stringent requirements for the draftees/inductees and what these requirements were ?? visual acuity, ht, wt, etc.... i suppose as the war dragged on both s
... gun shot wound, and re-buried in Elm Springs, Columbia,Tn. Knowing that there might be many ex civil war soldiers and sailors buried abroad who died during and after the war, and that it would have...
...ions of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry throughout the engagement, geographical movement, and their officers and soldiers. Thank for any specific recommendations....
...rite war movie of all time. I noticed that before the assault on Fort Wagner there were a number of Union soldiers in Zouave uniforms. Is that historically accurate since I would have thought that...
In various movies, BoB miniseries when you see soldiers on leave, they have on their coats and ties... Where was all this clothing kept and how was it matched up with the owner? Same goes with all the
...alties, sometimes for deaths, sometimes for US only casualties or deaths only, sometimes including Japanese soldiers, sometimes including Japanese civilians and sometimes including casualties outside ...
...: Sainte-Croix-Sur-Mer 193,197,441,442 squadrons RAF, 144 Wing. I am looking for documents and/or photos of soldiers present in Banville or surrounding villages in June 1944, ones which might be usefu...
...her 'tipsy'. I also don't remember ever reading or hearing anything about how the Germans managed to land soldiers to capture him and that he was rescued by the British moments before they got him i...
...so guaranteed the people of Japan that they would not be enslaved, the safe and unharrassed return of their soldiers, and access to (as opposed to control of) raw materials from other countries to sus...
...arnage they call the US Civil War. I was wondering,are there any other similar memoirs,like his, written by soldiers involved in the conflict....
Before his death, Stephen Ambrose was working on _Citizen Soldiers of the Pacific_. Does anyone know when (or if) it will be released? Thanks...David Wade
Couldn't double canister transform a human body into hundreds of smaller gobbits of torn flesh. Hardly enough to bury. Bob Kolker
...ch at my library and on the Web, but could use help with the following scenario from the book: When Union soldiers comandeer his house as a hospital, a plantation owner and his family are forced to ...
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