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...gement of the structure in the USAAF? i.e. Air Force, Group, Wing, etc. Also, what were the equivilent of troops and squadrons used in the Cavalry?...
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
...e big public airfield (P1) close by Palembang town and the oil field, and this was where the Japanese paratroops landed.. This main airfield had some defences, not just mock wooden guns as at our own ...
...ross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. That Sergeant and I have been life long...
...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...
In the film 'Enemy At The Gates' (or something like that) it show Russian troops being sent to combat without a rifle. Did this really
...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...
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
Their troops were matched in courage and determination by the Yankees.
.... The US realized, rather late, that transportation was as important to industry as it was to movement of troops. The report you later mention stated that. The railway system was virtually inoperati...
...brief mention of 1st and 2nd battalion of SAS deploying to Norway at the end of WWII to disarm the German troops there. Does anybody have any more information on the subject?...
...be very decisive in winning a war, as it supports those that ultimately win a war, and that is the ground troops. In WWII, I was on the reiving end of both. Strategic air was a nuisance. Tactical ai...
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
where ther any commonwealth troops taking part in the ocupation of Japan or were there only Americans ?
...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...
...e the Egyptian army were sufficiently 'together' to decide to take on Israel in 48+ - what were all these troops doing during WW2? Same goes for Libya, what were these people doing while the Brits etc...
...I need some more detailed information on 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 durin...
...and in 1916 from the russian parts of Poland and thus the nucleus of the later Republic of Poland. Polish troops fought under austrian command. When Hitler and the German Government decided to alter a...
...ailroading, automated data transmission would have helped car utilization and saved time. In other words, troops needing a train may have had to wait a day just for their request to be processed and p...
...nts to collect intelligences from second generation (Nisei) Japanese draftees on matters dealing with the troops...for the collection of intelligences with regard to anti-participation organizations a...
...were available for combat in France. Technically Germans had more aircraft to perform air strikes against troops as well as cover troops from enemy attacks than they did in North Western Europe. Even ...
I'm looking for information regarding the behavior of American Troops in Japan on and just after August 28, 1945. In particular I'm looking into charges that there were massive rapes of Japanese by Am
... done for tactical purposes (Hinder movement of enemy forces and supplies), and is done to support ground troops. There were no US ground forces in Japan until after the Japanese surrendered. As I'v...
... September 1: Germany invades Poland with nine armoured divisions and 1,250,000 men versus 800,000 Polish troops. September 10 - 17: The Battle of the Bzura. The Poles are trapped and surrounded by ...
I understand Hitler ordered all captured paratroops and commandos interrogated by SD and then shot. This was to be carried out even if they were in military uniform and surrendered. Comments?
...eavily engaged with Zulu warriors. Runners were dispatched to the supply train to draw ammunition for the troops. The quarter master refused to release the ammunition since the runners were from anoth...
Allied troops: Presumably if a soldier went missing he still got paid ? If this was so, and if it was subsequently found out that he had been killed, was his pay deducted in some way - from whom ?
...pons or with diversionary actions against the Germans when the Warsaw Ghetto rebelled and held the German troops at bay for several weeks. Could it be the same philosophy the Russians had re the Poles...
...the war industrialists travelling to build critical new defense plants. Or food wouldn't be served to the troops on a troop train....
Hardly a handful. A division of elite troops defending extremely rugged terrain. There were also large numbers of other German units in Italy. A check in one of my books lists the following Divisions
...st unhealthy service-toll ever in World War II? I know: - naval war planes - bomberscrews - shock troops, perhaps Royal Engineers? Cheers, Andre Koppers...
...om the SS, Waffen or otherwise, simply because the Wehrmacht had larger numbers. The order, issued to the troops fighting in the Eastern front in 1942, that prisoners and passive resistance were to be...
... 'similar actions' by LAH in Russia? What events led up to them? Is it possible that it was really Soviet troops or partisans who may have triggered some retaliatory actions by LAH or other German com...
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
... is the Reb's right flank. Johnson was north of Culp's Hill and not fully up by midday of the second. His troops were being used to secure lines of communication back to Carlisle I believe. Regardless...
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