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...logists say there is "compelling" evidence they have found the mass burial site of British and Australian troops who were killed during World War I. They believe the bodies of up to 400 soldiers remai...
...he critical question in this campaign: do Americans want a neo-empire in the Middle East? Do they want US troops permanently stationed in Iraq with up to 60 permanent bases? That's what the Bush admin...
...li Sistani was "quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops was permissible."
Are we so sure that democracy is the way to go in Iraq? We have t...
...fficers committed acts that, IMHO, would seem far from honorable, and flat out disobediance. For example, troops in China committed atrocities in direct violation of orders. Other officers filed false...
I seen on Scarborough Country late last night (news-talk-show) they said that 750 troops died training for D-Day. That is surprising to me.
Also said 19,000 civilians died during the invasion. Any c
...e of the SS units involved during the Normandy landing ... and if so, did he take any measures against SS troops who murdered Canadian (and others) prisoners?...
I am wondering why the Japanese didn't send ground troops accompanying the fleet to occupy Hawaii right after they launched the surprise air-naval attack on the Pearl Harbor? If they had taken over an
...its weren't nice to put it mildly but, was there any chaotic mass slaughter, rape and pillaging by German troops anywhere? And from what I understand, the SS and Einsatz at worst executed and tortured...
...less) neutral. What reason could there have ben to drop them leaflets (outside Turkey) other than Turkish troops fighting for allied or axis armies???...
...yone point me too a decent and available English language work which might give some more detail on those troops from occupied and other countries who served with the Germans. I know Wiking, an SS Pan...
Go to the library and take a look at the Army's official history of the subject, 'Employment of Negro Troops' by U. L. Lee. Your 'impression' that they were 'shielded to some degree from combat' is an
...iewpoint, the issue of whether it was a 'good idea' as implemented has puzzled me a little. Sure, let the troops without a supply line forage aggressively, and tear up RR's just like a big cavalry rai...
where ther any commonwealth troops taking part in the ocupation of Japan or were there only Americans ?
... 20/8433-122325) among the documents of mid June '44. At the date in Zara were just few (very few) German troops and the civilians. The msg is a request from Marshal Tito to the Balkan Air Force for b...
Could you direct me to a list of occupation troops who served in the South during Reconstruction and where they served? I am particularly interested in Union troops who served in or around Vicksburg,
...or information and research purposes on the Battle of Harpers Ferry, and Stonewall's capture of the union troops? Am doing detailed research for a possible book, any help would be appreciated....
...erman war has been questioned, for example, it is said he didn't defend his border when he learned German troops were massing on it.
I was wondering...
We read in the current news about 'friendly fire' killing our own troops. These are just the unfortunate accidents of war.
How much friendly fire occurred to either side in the ACW?
We know that T
I understand that Germany used TV during WWII to entertain its troops stationed abroad mostly to those in occupied France. Also, Germany used this media as a propaganda tool. I understand that transmi
...ike that McClellan behavior is very odd when you consider that McClellan never ever thought he had enough troops in his army - so why he uss a different standard on others?.
Well when Stonewall got ...
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
...til they were captured by the US Army.
11. Following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the firefigh...
... believed for some time that the command structure of his army was unwieldy, and decreasing the number of troops in each corps would remove some of the pressure on Jackson and Longstreet. It is likely...
... the 76mm, I think that it is well over 1000 meters, maybe 2000 meters, well beyond the ranges that U. S. troops were usually concerned with (for reasons like not having much chance of hitting anythin...
...st the Germans. > > How do you explain that an infantry doctrine which enabled > British and Commonwealth troops to repeatedly defeat German > troops, even the elite German troops, in Europe was actua...
...ise is that despite Stalins inclination to an aggressive stance in packing the Bialystock salient full of troops to counter-attack an invader ASAP (also Gen Pavlovs, West Front commander), Zhukov and ...
Does anyone have information on Australian troops landing at normandy on D-day? I heard a media claim that it was 7,500 men. Wouldn't this be an entire division werth mentioning such as the seperate a
...as that it was a sand fort which withstood cannon fire very well.
In the '73 Arab-Israeli War, Egyptian troops crossing the Suez Canal knocked down the Israeli sandberm using high pressure water hos...
...by the Germans because they were preperating a invasion of Germany. That was why large amounts of Russian troops were so near the border.
These information was called to be found in KGB-archieves in...
I have my father's separation record and discharge papers. I know that he travelled on troopships twice and by LST once. The pictures of the LST are lost and the name he remembers of the troopship is
...ry Regiment 1908 (Horse)
HQ Recce Cavalry Troop Horse Artillery Battery
3 Cavalry Squadrons 3 Cavalry Troops
Atlantean Armoured Cavalry Regiment 1936
HQ Lt Cavalry (AC) Troop 3 Horse Artillery...
Can someone tell me which East Coast port of the United States shipped the most war materials (including troops and equipment) out for England during World War II. Or for that matter, the order of imp
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
...s a more efficient route, more tons/truck/day, probably due to being a shorter run, so diverting it to US troops would not have meant 18,000 tons of supplies to 12th Army group. There is also the fore...
...tions say out of plaster or balloons to mimic guns and implacments. With the real trimmings of barb wire, troops with some real bunkers thrown in for good messure and mix that into the areas that were...
...rent war in Iraq from reporters 'embedded' with the fighting units.
How close was the press to fighting troops in the ACW. We know Mathew Brad was photographing carnage shortly after the battle at A...
...ith enough range to bombard Washington D.C. while remaining far enough behind the lines that that Federal troops couldn't attack it.
From: http://www.nps.gov/vick/visctr/sitebltn/blizzard.htm
'The...
...itish against Germany and Holland. 2. The occupation of parts of Germany( the Rhineland by Frech Colonial troops) 3. The aid the Germans gave the Poles in blocking a Russian attempt to expand the revo...
...between Lincoln's pre-war statements on black-white relations and the unfortunate actions of some Federal troops. I doubt that the perpetrators of those outrages had any awareness of Lincoln's stateme...
...ulations, jumping on train roofs and all other sorts of conveyences. At the end of the movie, with German troops are hot on their trail, they are on foot and think Switzerland is just beyond a high an...
...llow need not have bothered - Grant would have turned him loose, preferring him in command of Confederate troops than as a prisoner.)
Once the fort was surrounded, it seemed to the defenders they we...
.../ biases).
With the success of this attack, Longstreet proposed to Bragg a pursuit of the fleeing Union troops and an overall exploitation which would have placed a healthy chunk of his wing directl...
...sburg, VA, on September 2, 1862, members of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment attacked and defeated Union troops of Major Henry A. Cole¹s Maryland Cavalry Battalion and Captain Samuel C. Means¹ ...
...empting to help the civilian locals establish order and keep the civilians out of the way of the fighting troops.
Can anyone tell me about the writing of such handbooks? What credentials did they ha...
...eep shaking my head over the lack of urgency of some British commanders on the drive north to aid the paratroops fighting for their lives at Arnhem. Horrocks made clear that 30 Corps was 'the cavalry'...
...ter the main camp had been liberated. This apparently was the source of the story about Japanese-American troops liberating Dachau and ending the Holocaust.
The most credible evidence I have seen as...
...as real, and even had a few variations. Following their combat introduction in Sicily, some U.S. airborne troops amended the cry to something like 'Umbrugio!', which was slang Italian/Sicilian for 'dr...
Am curious if the above countries had any kind of organized programs to boost the morale of the troops, similiar to what the USA offered.
Did the Axis have anything like V mail?
Was there an Axis
...king slowed or stopped the shipment of winter gear, supplies, etc that could have been timely supplied to troops as the winter approached so that many of them would not have had to deal with the winte...
...will be honorably discharged the service of the United States, to accept appointments in the U.S. Colored Troops, on the receipt of this Order at the places they may be serving :- Private James Scully...
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