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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
...ther, I am an American who is very Republican in political views. Some of my relatives emigrated to the United States from Germany. They were made up of Rohrlack's and Mielke's, and they lived in Wisc...
...ll in Ottawa. He was with the No. 2 Squadron, 22nd Armoured Regiment, Canadian Grenadier Guards, a tank unit.
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...le Spitfire, however, was the obvious candidate for fighter-on-fighter engagements. With fleeting opportunities with your enemy in your sights, the advantages of faster-firing machine guns would be ob...
...overed but that the major part of the Japanese landing force were now in control at P1, and a motorised unit was moving down the road that must soon lead them to discovery of our jungle airfield. It w...
...here where any Americans in the 10th inter-allied commando, specialy before the USA joined ww2. If this unit was created before pearl harbour of course...
Does anyone have any knowledge of central European SS units? I know the Nazis formed many SS units comprised mainly of anti-communists from its vassal states in Western and Northern Europe, but what a
... be visiting Normandy for the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion. I am interested in finding any US unit histories online so I might actually trace their progress day by day. The more detailed the...
... > the Japanese in Burma usually consisted of fighting > fanatically tenacious battalion-sized infantry units backed > by small amounts of artillery and poor quality AT guns and > armour, in a jungle ...
... to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go dow...
...Second Front where and wherever possible. Or would the allies have waited until there was another opportunity to land on the Channel coast ?...
...confined to occupied territories? I came across an account that the Allies accidentally bombed a Swiss munitions factory but have been unable to find and other sources to corroborate this....
Does anyone have an idea of or sources for the organisation of higher level Red Army artillery units, especially Corps & Army level artillery regiments and the various types of artillery brigades in t
...g of the 5th Iowa, or have any information about its design? My wife's great-grandfather played in this unit's band, and I would like to find out about its flag for her. [Yep, she's a Yankee, but is o...
... was killed in action on April 29, 1944. I have an old letter writen to the family from a member of his unit and it makes a reference to VS-44. Everyone I ask has no clue. Can anyone help me with this...
...t information about the battle of Gettysburg (maps, old photos, new photos, good summary of the 3 days, units, ...). Can anyone recommend me a certain book? A couple of times I read about 'The Gettysb...
...nder conditions requiring great skill and courage. Having effectively fired his weapon until all the ammunition was exhausted, he secured permission to obtain more at an ammunition dump. Arriving at t...
...e Canadian #126 Spitfire wing scored more victories from July 1943 to the end of the war than any other unit. 8 Canada's soliders were some of the most repected of the war, and one more litte knowen f...
Looking for any info on this unit .I have a diary from my uncle that was in
...facility has some sort of security. Access and egress control. Many people these days live in gated communities. How would the security at an American camp compare to an actual US prison?...
The quantity of typed documents coming out of each Company and Battalion and every other unit all the way up was really a lot
... 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...
I had a uncle who a member of to one of the Airborne units. He claims that Eisenhower visited them the day before the invasion. he gave a short speech where he said 'some of you men are going to die.'
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Is there a easy way to find out whose units operating on mediterranean theather in WWII received presidential unit citation ?
Rgds,
...orn, but I am not sure what to include.
Here is his information:
Staff Sgt 78th Army Air Force Base Unit (AACS) Control Tower Operator 552
I know he served in Burma.
If any of you could help w...
...rned the story of William Stephenson, the British agent code named 'Intrepid,' sent by Churchill to the United States in 1940. Stephenson set up headquarters in Rockefeller Center, with orders to use ...
...ame short. Finland was actually very short in everything. They almost went out of so simple thing as ammunition.
My understanding is that Roosevelt and Churchill saw Finland as Hitlers allie, but th...
...a small WWII related project that I am working on and I need some more detailed information on specific unit locations during the war. For example, what German troops were located in Norway during the...
Guy Sajer frequently calls the machine guns that his unit uses 'Spandaus', as far as I know this is what the Maxim machine guns from World War I were called. Is this a mistake or was his unit really i
...nji War Memorial (Commonwealth War Cemetery) here in Singapore. What struck most to me, were the names, units of the men who died in protecting Malaya and those who perished as POWs in the notorious C...
...Earl Ziemke. It has details of the proposed invasion of Sweden for which 25 Panzer Division was the key unit...
...ook more territory in Sicily than the British Eighth. He saved the US II Corp in N. Africa, rebuilt the unit, and crushed the Germans at Kasserine II. However he was tarred by the infamous slapping in...
... countries were composed, but it's really difficult to find out any kind of information about ancillary units, corps and army level support formations like independent artillery and engineering units....
...he RAF bombing Raids on Revigny in July 944 in which 41 Lancasters were shot down.' The RAF PRU ( Photo Unit ) Sqn 542 and 544 photos will verify the delay action over 6 days. http://www.valourandhorr...
I'm looking for information on the unit my father served with during world War II: the 3234th Ordnance Depot Company. My father almost never talked about his experiences during the war, and I can't he
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