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On 11 November 1918 at 11 am the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. This year marks the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice, when Australians reme
... You can read an interesting discussion here and I just couldn't avoid comparing the way in which the west and mainly Britain of course responded to Hitler moves 70 years ago to the way even the sma...
...these countries goes to defense. The privilege of spending only 1-2% on such goals is a dream that many Western countries would like to have. Just think what we could do socially with half of our defe...
...a statement so close to the deadline Iran has to decide whether to accept the package of incentives the West offers in return to freezing the nuclear development. I accept that one of the purposes i...
...sons. The creation of the states in the middle east and the Gulf area was done by politicians usually western ones and the result was that people that naturally didn't want to be together were stuck...
In this time the most serious war of all is not defined along national lines. Sure all the western world is in a war against terrorism but unlike anything that is known to us from the past this is not
Pardon my lack of specific knowledge here but I have been curious about something. What happened to the WWI battlefields in France and Belgium during the WWII years. Were there any WWII battles on o
...book containing the above information and lots more is 'Shadows Dancing: Japanese Espionage Against the West, 1939-1945' by Tony Matthews (St.Martins Press...
...erty during WWII so there was no road that lead directly from one to the other. You had to drive to the west side of the ranch and then South then back east to get from Corpus to Port Isabel....
What were the Allies' plans in 1940 before the attack in the west? Did the Allies ever seriously consider attacking Germany after the fall of Poland? Were they hoping for a split between Germany and t
...t, after Pearl Harbor, the common populace of California was expecting iminent Japanese invasion of the West Coast. Several questions: 1. How likely did the US military deem invasion to be? 2. Did the...
when i took history 101 (western civilzation from 1700~present), we spent some time on ww2. according to the text, Fascism in Italy was defined was an Authoritarian Regime with some limitations (royal
...llowed Japan to save face and its 'honor', a topic supposedly very important in Japan but not something westerners could relate to. A key related issue was the absolute Japanese obediance to their r...
... they would probably beat nazi germany without any help from anglo-american. but on the other hand, the west also should won the war in case russia had fall in 41. you ask why? because the west develo...
...to the Spanish Republic because they did prefer an other fascist government than a communist country in Western Europe. The Spanish Civil War ended July 18th, 1.939. The first friendly contacts betw...
...stern front killed more germans and russians then total combined losses of america and england. was the west front merely a costly diversion for the germans and nothing more?...
...dent wants to establish a patrol of the Pacific—a wall of American naval vessels stretched across the western Pacific in such a way as to make it impossible for Japan to reach any of her sources of ...
...w-190F/G - first service late 43, eastern front Just about the only vehicles or a/c introduced on the Western front were Pak-40 armed conversions of obsolete French chassis....
On December 30, 1862, the U.S.S. Monitor was about twenty miles south west of Cape Hatteras, being towed by the U.S.S. Rhode Island. The day had been pleasant when they left Hampton Roads on the twent
... navy to fight back on the Pacific Ocean because there is no other military base between Hawaii and the west coastal area of the US, and the distance is too far for the US to launch attacks on the wel...
Can anyone give me information what happend to the germans POW after WW2, both in the west as well as in russia. How many was taken by the US, Russian etc. How long there were POWs How many that died
... http://www.counterpunch.org/dday06042004.html '...The Germans had diverted only 60 divisions on the Western front, while the Hitler command maintained 259 divisions and brigades on the Soviet-Germ...
...on after WWII between an American and Japanese officer. The American asked why Japan did not invade the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, while we still did not have strong defenses. The Japanese repli...
...enthusiastic about the war. This naturally lowered the morale. It is also notable that the morale was lowest in the branches which had the worst equipment, i.e. among the infantry. Some armored units ...
...ewed as collaborators? Did they receive any veteran's benefits from their countries or Germany (East or West)? Tim...
...some were kept prisoner for many years AFTER the war was over! Apparently this was kept hidden from the Western Allies at the time and knowledge of these prisoners was never admitted to by the Soviets...
...ge to win the war giving the overall situation at the time, including the progress of operations in the West. However, his arrogant belief that only he has been able to discern Lee's full intent makes...
...talk to anyone who flew into or served at the American airbase at Narsassuaq in Greenland, called Bluie West One. It went into service I believe in 1942 and was a stop for aircraft being ferried from ...
... to have been a target, not once, of Allied assasination attempts. Most of the Allied commanders in the Western and Afrikan front had a healthy (unless you got killed) respect for Rommel. I remember t...
...ancellorsville? He had been wounded before. It didn't take away his courage then. He fought well in the West, later. Why the 180 degree turn in aggressiveness in May...
...tos and documents from the cold war. One document struck my attention. It was a rather schematic map of Western Europe (no borders, but some cities and rivers where shown) with the area ca. 200 km aro...
...ed armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself p...
...Croatia (which was associated with Hungary for 800 years), and another piece of 1,500 square miles from western Hungary. Inis L. Claude Jr. estimated that the masses of people handed over to foreign...
...the potential effectiveness of Lincoln's ideas. Of course, eventually, Lincoln would find an unorthodox western general whose thinking was very much like Lincoln's....
... Does anyone know which fighter type would have been on the HMS Indomitable when she ran around in the West Indies on her way to join Repulse and POW? Thanks in advance. Eric Wiener...
This came up on another forum, but I thought I'd float it here. Whom do you believe are the lowest and scummiest personalities of the Civil War. North and South?
Just saw the release of 'Das Boot' today in the West L.A. area. If anyone wants to get a feeling for how a Kriegsmarine sailor fared on a U-boat, then you GOTTA see this movie in a full screen theat
...larly knowledge of him. I have read Kent Masterson Brown's Cushing of Gettysburg. This spring I visited West Point. Unfortunately, increased security due to the events of 911, precluded a visit to Cus...
...ts? I know the Nazis formed many SS units comprised mainly of anti-communists from its vassal states in Western and Northern Europe, but what about places like Czechoslovakia? Bohemia and Moravia were...
...ontingents? Grant Meade 2, 5 and 6 corps 81,000 Burnside 9 corps 22,000 Sigel Valley 15,000 Crook West Virginia 9,000 Butler Fort Monroe 30,000...
The figures speak best for themselves - no Western nation can equal these: 8 pilots with 50+ victories (Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Rechkalov, Gulaev, Vorozheykin, Yevstigneyev, Glinka, Klubov). In battles
...e in packing the Bialystock salient full of troops to counter-attack an invader ASAP (also Gen Pavlovs, West Front commander), Zhukov and Timoshenko developed a scheme of deeply echeloned defence to d...
...41. During this time, Germany and the USSR cooperated with each other. Germany attacked Poland from the west, and the Soviets attacked Poland from the east. For all practical purposes, Germany and the...
... 3. The advantage of being the countries political leader as well. 4. Failures or brillian moves on the Western front. These are just example, but anything you feel is worth talking about I would be...
Could anyone recommend a good solid book on the Civil War's western theater? I'm a casual reader of the war and am really interested in that particular area... anything not too pedantic would suit me
Does anyone have any knowledge of the 'Queens Own Royal West Kent' regiment in 1940-45? My wife's Grandfather was with them on a 'death march' in about 1945, and we would like to find out more if poss
... Make the whole world as one, and...make a new national birth in the chaotic world of the minorities of Western Europe, and rule over it. The rule of China is merely the first step toward rule of the ...
When reading a book about the Western Front and the armored engagements that occured there, I am always curious as to what the Sherman Firefly's main gun-the 17 pdr would be equal to in terms of milli
...gh. Then, thanks to Pillow, they retreated back into the fort. Meanwhile, Grant had his forces on the west of the fort attack. The defenses on that side were weak, because troops had been withdrawn ...
...Hello: I've just finished reading the chapter on Chickamauga in W. J. Wood's _Civil_War_Generalship_ (Westport: 1997), which I think has something to say about L's overall competency. Indeed, after ...
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