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... it is that nothing posted on the blog was really such a threat to national security or even to his own unit in Iraq. The details in articles and other information that is available on the blogsphere ...
...al ones oe imagined ones. The inspection of the Iran nuclear situation is done by the international community and there are many many ways for Israel to react including an conventional air force strik...
...as the terrorist certainly do, they'll play the card of emotional blackmail everyday - hiding guns and munitions under the seat of a very pregnant woman or in the baby's bed.
Has anything in the pa...
The quantity of typed documents coming out of each Company and Battalion and every other unit all the way up was really a lot
Hi.
While watching TV the other evening I came across a programme which dealt with the aftermath of war and the cleaning up of unexploded weapons (UXOs), explosives, gas shells, among other things.
I am doing research on my dad's unit, the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion, company C. If anyone has any info, links, etc. I sure would appreciate the help...I keep running into dead ends! Thanks Much.
The aircraft which spotted the Bismartck on this occasion was a RAF = Catalina(PBY) with a RAF crew who were accompanied by a USN Ensign = acting, I understand, as an instructor pilot. I have seen it
... operators school at USC, Davis in 1942. On a bullitin board was a notice that a special Greek/American unit was forming. Volunteers had to (1) be of Greek decent and (2) speak Greek. For three days m...
...ulation, and I will forgive the Moderator if he decides not to include this:
Given the history of the United State up through the Missouri Compromise, suggest plausible ways in which the Civil War m...
...od to keep the barrage range ahead of the planes, but how would this work with the pom-pom's belted? ammunition? The gun's crew couldn't use a key to set the fuse on individual shells like with the 4-...
...the US public were against getting involved in a European War.
One of problems that most of us in the United States who were against going to war in Europe was that FDR, his small group of Anglophil...
...r at least, they were sort of a jumble of whatever was available. I've heard anecdotes about Home Guard units being equipped with everything from shotguns to golf clubs, and using roller skates for tr...
...ilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster....
...sn't convinced that, if Mr. Roosevelt is elected (in 1940), he will drag us into war at the first opportunity, and that, if none presents itself, he will make one.'
Roosevelts first opportunity to i...
Lots of coverage of the survivors of D-Day, and those who paid the ultimate price. Of survivors who still can't forget seeing their friends and comrades slaughtered in front of them.
But imagine wha
...us from the dangers of the sea, and from the violence of the enemy; that we may be a safeguard unto the United States of America, and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasion...
I have read many books in which German units are referred to by the regimental number and the divisional designation is omitted. Are regimental numbers directly tied to the divisional number? For inst
...lstein, Tatra, Juterborg.
Can anybody give me a full list of named wehrmacht divisions, and why these units were given names?....
I'm looking for information on the following units:
1st Filipino Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army 2nd Filipino Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Army 5217th Reconnaissance
...ilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster....
... second plant was built, coming into operation in July, a French plant was captured, and a third German unit was scheduled for completion in 1945. An underground plant was also planned, but no equipme...
...s of slave cotton New Englanders purchased, but this much is certain; from well before the birth of the United States right up to The War For Southern Independence, New Englanders made profiting from ...
...ow the German soldiers acted in the conquered territories. Granted that the Einsatz Gruppen and many SS units weren't nice to put it mildly but, was there any chaotic mass slaughter, rape and pillagin...
...ed to the principle. Jefferson, Madison, Washington, all looked for its early extinction throughout the United States. But, on the subject of slavery...
Was Rommel in charge 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?
After the success of the Lightning Brigade, were there any shifts in policy towards arming more Union units with repeaters? Did Stanton ever change his position on repeaters?
I understand Sheridan a
...ton writes:
'Congress, very significantly, had recently held that slaves employed in hostility to the United States were no longer slaves.'
The passage/paragraph contains no footnote...
...), racism became associated with the evils of mass extermination and the like. I.e. white people in the United States in the next few decades might have thought 'we fought a big war to rid the world o...
...here is an Internet source for German war records from WW2. Particularly personnel lists of paratrooper units. Thanks for any help....
... morale was lowest in the branches which had the worst equipment, i.e. among the infantry. Some armored units managed fairly well and the artillery was usually considered to be the best part of the ar...
...suffered terribly did they not under German rule?), Austrian and other volonteers. There were Norwegian units and others I am sure and I have seen several pictures of Whermacht troops with the French ...
...egies could be mitigated somewhat in Grant's case by Lincoln's insistance that he attack at every opportunity & Hood's addiction to Laudinum (an opium derivitive) which he took daily for pain from his...
...ilby's book 'Remember Fontenoy' on the Irish Brigade Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster....
...ars ago, and I discovered it has a dozen names scribed onto it. I'd like to see if I can identify which unit they came from. Is there an resource I could search to see if I can match up a unit to the ...
...here is published information suggesting Stalin actually began military operations in a war against the United States and Great Britain in 1945. During March, April, and May 1945, the Soviet armed for...
Hi.
My Grandfather just recently passed on, and I know that he was in WWII, his unit was the 13th Armored Division. All I know about his time in WWII is that got to Europe in Jan 45 at Le Harve, Fra
...shielded to some degree from combat' is an understatement of tremendous magnitude. Combat troops in the United States Army during the Second World War were overwhelmingly white, with the exception of ...
...vilified in some circles, seemed to understand fair treatment of your foe was needed to help heal and reunite the country. Was the extent to which Sherman made Georgia howl worth it in the long run?
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...uie West One. It went into service I believe in 1942 and was a stop for aircraft being ferried from the United States to Britain.
And can anyone suggest why 'Bluie' should have been chosen as a code...
... while ago.
A D- Day programme on Sky TV, spoken by a veteran 'there is no glory in War ..only the ammunition makers gain by it '////////////...
...o), was bombed because of about the same reason than Zara. Do not forget that the coastal Dalmatian community had it's own etnic individuality.
To say the bombings had no reason, it's a simple way t...
...to 'Now He Belongs to the Ages.') for the newspapers Lancaster Civil War Round Table Website http://community.webtv.net/GrayGhostYankee/TheCivilWarRound Carl Speros webmaster....
... concerns discharges granted to wounded or furloughed soldiers who were not properly accounted on their unit's muster-out, but have yet to read text of the circular ...
I'm working on a single Michi...
I have a question that I haven'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,
...uld have happened in Harrtisburg or even in my home town Lancaster If the Lanc. Fencibles & other small units hadn't burnt the bridge. I its & buts were candied nuts, we'd all be as fat as me. LOL
L...
...- I read in a magazine [Archaelogy] the other day that in 1991 an underground bunker which housed an SS unit assigned to Hitler's security was accidentally discovered in Berlin near the Brandenburg Ga...
... have a reference source for the 'AS' to find out what squadron this belonged to (I am trying to ID the unit from a photo)......
...promulgated a legally binding, iron-clad and air-tight law of perpetuity, the Union of States under the United States Constitution is a voluntary Union of unspecified duration and contains absolutely ...
... Paris with 3 Krupp Cannons from up to 120 km away. The shell took 3.5 min for the journey.
Were such units available in WW2? (I would expect the ones from WW1 were demolished post-war...)
It is a...
...moderators are rejecting posts solely from one 'side' or the other, rest assured we have be equal opportunity rejectors of late.
Play nice, argue sensibly, and this thread can continue.
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