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...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 ...
...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
...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
...he says that Himmler's diaries have been discovered recently in a Russian archive. He had had the opportunity to read them and he doubts that they are fake. Unfortunately, that's about all I know ab...
I would imagine huge stocks of German munitions, small arms, armored vehicals artillery, etc. were captured intact from the Wermacht, S.S. and other ground combat formations by the Western allies both
I just saw 'Life is Beautiful'. At the very end, an American unit enters the camp, and a tank commander gives the little boy a ride. I did not recognize the insignia on his shoulder (I'm usually prett
...y did in North Western Europe. Even after the D-Day, Soviets had faced majority of ALL available German units. North Western Europe had no more than 20% of ALL German forces. Now, let review the num...
... sophomore English class, we just finished read the 'A Seperate Peace' by John Knowles. To conclude the unit on the book, our teacher has asked us to select one of five different projects. I have chos...
...t on the trip back, the P-51s did not have to stay with the bombers but could go after targets of opportunity. Now why wouldn't the bombers need protection on the trip back? Even though they were no l...
The name of the german unit was KG200 and AFAIK the german name for a captured B-17 was Dornier Do 200. Is there a connection between the figure 200 or is it just a coincident ? Several B-17?s crash
...uld someone reply to me with the total number of carrier's that were in existence and being used by the United States during WWII? Also, if someone could give me a web page as reference where this is ...
There is little doubt amongst most historians that during World War II the United States was a 'racist' nation. The presence of various 'Jim Crow' type laws and the general acceptance of racist views
...itzers (it also suffered 2,500 casualties in the six weeks prior to January 1942) yet, compared to some units it was considered to be in good shape. The 23rd Division had not less then 1,000 infantry,...
My understanding is that German occupation forces developed military units from citizens of the occupied countries. Two of these that I am aware of were the Netherlands Legion and the Norwegion Legion
...ormation was heavily 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 w...
...side. He wanted to fight against Russia, but the Germans didn't trust him and put him in an American SS unit. In 1948, back in this country, he had his day in court and was sent up the river for 25 ye...
...a was too weak to intervene. And if it did, the IJN had anticipated this and would have used this opportunity to hack away at the US (supply and invasion) fleet. But what do other people think? Re...
...phrase Pzrgrem, instead of 'You try to escape you get shot', it should be 'You try to escape after your unit is fired upon so that you will not be shot'. If someone were firing on me after I had surre...
...library.virtualave.net/organiz3.html Why are there three different ranks of marshal and what types of units did the holders of these ranks command? Thanks . . . Jeff...
...American republics which found facilities lacking, deported some or all of their enemy internees to the United States which, at the time, had faciliities available and also had an exchange repatriatio...
...r as I know he did nothing personally to stop it. And Gariepy did not say that any member of his tank unit did anything to stop these atrocities either. His story was that some officers of the Regt....
... 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...
...ssion, on August 18, 1944, which was the day after the official end of the battle for Falaise. Tester's unit diary records no deaths on that day, and his name is not listed among deaths on the 17th. I...
... his source a USSBS statistical sampling reported in 'Effects of strategic bombing on Japanese morale' (United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1947 ) p. 194-195. For the numbers of fatalities, this...
... Whilst not part of the SS Totenkopfverband or an Einsatzgruppen (Dirwelangers brigade was a Waffen SS unit, albeit a penal unit) it alternated between front line combat and pursuit of the Final Solu...
...termined to fight, in close collaboration with Germany and Italy, even a Hundred- Year War to crush the United States and Great Britain...[and the]...aim is to dictate peace to the United States in th...
...served in the Royal Air Force as a photographer and was posted to Egypt in 1942, after which his mobile unit followed the allied forces in the desert campaigns. It seems to have been some kind a servi...
...attle of W.W.II between Australian and Japanese troops? Also did New Zealand troops serve in Australian Units or were they separate?...
... E. Hendrickson Class 43-I L.A.F.S. Squadron 3 Lemoore, Calif. Does anyone have any idea what kind of unit this was? I expect some kind of flying school...
...talions Basic Atlantean infantry regimental structure remained the same throughout the period. As new unit types were created, they were added to the Regiment. Atlantean Infantry Division HQ Div...
...night by heavy German counteracts which destroyed the five Sherman M4 Medium Tanks that accompanied his unit to the top of the mountain. He has indicated that out of a unit of approximately 80 soldier...
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