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Would like to know which units were stationed in the town of Comber Co. Down Northern Ireland during WW2
My family lived in one of those huts after US personnel moved on
Chris, the larger units were the 92nd and 93rd Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Cavalry Division, the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 761 Tank Battalion. Blacks also served in the Navy and Marine Corps., but...
...ed to the Caen sector. It consequently was enveloped in the Falaise pocket and destroyed by Commonwealth units from the north, American units from the south and incessant air attacks from above....
No Waffen-SS units served in North Africa. According to some published sources, this was due to personal intervention by Erwin Rommel, who had acquired a strong dislike for the Waffen-SS during the fr...
I'd certainly like to know which one! _Some_ units may have been at their full four companies of 22 tanks strength, but they were pretty few and far between.
I believe I read in Mellenthins &...
Steve, IIRC, Northwind was an assault on New Years day by German units( 8 German Divisions v Seventh US Army) in the northern Alsace, to take pressure off the units involved on the Ardennes Offensive ...
...ultz Staffen(sp?)? (The : context was the massacre in Oradour Sur Glane)
: Also, were there separate units within the SS - those which provided : soldiers for the front as opposed to those who wor...
...n was almost finished as a fighting unit at Menari. I would suspect that there were some Kiwis in Aussie units (just as some Americans served in British and Canadian units), but not as members of the ...
... a war crime? Is there a 'Young Offenders Act' for war criminals?
I read that other German units referred to the 12th SS Hitlerjugend as the 'Murder Division'. I recall reading...
...rman military administration. Volksdeutscher elements in Croatia were recruited in regular Croatian army units.
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Actually, of Bosnian Moslems. 'Handschar' is Turkish word...
...e question was about 'Australian forces.' Australian people enlisted in or attached to British units do not coonstitute 'Australian forces.'
(Passports are thus not just irrele...
...126th *US* Infantry Regiment served with the 32nd Infantry Division, which was made up of National Guard units from Michigan and Wisconsin. They served in New Guinea and the Phillipines. (Some Guard u...
Both the Russian and German Armys had cavalry units on the Eastern front though it would be more accurate to describe them as mounted infantry.
The image of the WW2 German army as being exclusively...
...imate (IMO) of the number of killers. It had to be much more than 1,000 because of the number of diverse units involved: four Einsatzgruppen (3,000 men) followed the Wehrmacht into the Soviet Union in...
Some units and individuals were drafted into the Chinese Civil War by both sides. Some vanished into the Soviet prison system.
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?
...dicative of this, IMO, is how they were consistantly able to cobble together credible 'ad hoc' units from the wreckage of defeats like the destruction of Army Group Center and the Mortain/Fa...
...chule Breslau-Lissa you are searching for. It was formed in 1.9.44.
On the other hand, in some cases units were formed into Kampfgruppen. Those consited mostly of gesprengeten, soldier coming out ...
... so much details about certain campaigns (not yet), but about the organization of the different types of units, especially the small and independent ones, when formed or disbanded, reorganizations and...
...rst time. Can you recommend any books available there about WW1 and WW2, especially about the Luftwaffe (units, aces, secret projects etc.)? Any tips on special shops in New York (also general aviatio...
Any body out there interested in Ranger units? I served in the modern day Rangers and I am interested in Ranger history.
My father was a 'mercy' transfer from the Russian front to Normandy. Several of his units were decimated in severe combat conditions over several years, inflicting outrageous casualties. He ...
How are Luftwaffe units classified, i.e. what is signified by III/NJG2? I am assuming that this is the third flight of Nachtjagdgeschwader [Night Fighter Squadron] 2. Or, is it Flight No 2 of NJG No I...
...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 i...
...e used as insignia by Hussars in the French Revolutionary wars (presumably where the 'cavalry' units of the PanzerWaffe got it from), for the SS it was tied up with Himmlers obsession with N...
... : this particular battle and in general? Did the Canadians have a : proportionally equal number of tank units in their army as did the : Americans and the British? Thank you for any replies.
Goin...
It was based on personal experience.
A fair number were fit young men in reserved occupations. They did a full-time job during the day and still carried out patrols at night. Some, like Frank Pike...
...in Germany, where 16 and 17 year olds were manning antiaircraft guns and were actually out in the combat units. Are you curious about how these teenagers lived and died in the frontlines? Are you curi...
...e).
WRT MPs, the rifle was still the most common grunt weapon, though some of the more elite/favored units probably received MP44 Assault Rifles. This was the exception, and not the rule, as MP44 ...
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