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Why the allied aviators called their life-jackets Mae-West?
...ioned before the invasion. And let's face it, Cobra marked the beginning of the end of German forces in Western Europe. Maybe you aren't reading enough publications. I haven't come across many US wr...
... Der Gross Deutschland serving in Russia from something like '42 on until he finally surrendered on the Western front. As far as the conditions of the battlefield environment, he said that at -30 to...
...y, Lillian Baker, Webb Research Group, Medford, 1990. Shadows Dancing: Japanese Espionage Against the West, 1939-1945, Tony Matthews, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. Jim Carew...
...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 ...
... 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...
For a number of reasons. Firstly, to knock a member of the Axis out of the war. Secondly, the Western Allies needed to engage the Germans *somewhere* in order to convince Stalin that we were seriously
...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...
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
I am doing research into the looting of Western Europe and and some questions regarding the organizations involved. From what I have read within the ghettos the German Kripo, Criminal Investigations D
...ed into the union army while sons of rich powerful white men were excused from the draft or simple sent west were if they served at all did so far from harm or risk....
...rations were the Allies involved in during October, Noverber and the first half of December 1944 in the Western European Theater. Thanks for any info....
...r for his government in which he assured Poland would attack in the East, when the French attack in the West (Joseph Beck, Dernier Rapport, Politique Polonaise 1926-1939, Neuchatel 1949, XVff,p.113.)....
...ore and were invoved in the CBI campaign, and the French were in Indochina, and that the Dutch held the West Indies. If anyone knows of websites, or books, or just plain info, I'd appreciate it....
...ater advantage of automated information processing. For example, I would've given the Bell System and Western Union top priority to upgrade teletypewriter and telephone communciations throughout the...
...of what Roosevelt and his close aides were seeing before FDR issued his famous E.O.9066 authorizing the West Coast Japanese evacuation: Appendix I, Part B MAGIC Message Summaries: Page A-76 Summar...
... the idea that in conjunction with the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life, the German armies in the West under von Kluge were supposed to quietly surrender to the allies? The rumor I have heard ...
... artillery, etc. were captured intact from the Wermacht, S.S. and other ground combat formations by the Western allies both in Germany after the surrender in '45. Does anyone know if there was a syste...
... performance of Allies and Soviets against Germans. The comparison would be between the Battle in North Western Europe and Eastern Front. In 1944 Germans had 157 divisions on Eastern Front, from the...
... wake of (among other things) Heinz Altmann's description of his maltreatment as a POW after WW2 by the Western Allies. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of acrimonious side issues, the import of mos...
...e War Department War in The Mediterranean Middle -East Theater China-Burma-India Theater Defense of the Western Hemisphere Techincal Services Pictoral Record Special Subjects I'm 15 and a major World ...
I'm looking for webpages of Western Allied war crimes and atrocities, i.e. what the Western victors did that was really, really bad. I'm not interested in debating it, I'm just hoping someone can thro
...sh Army officers in a forest area named for the Russian village of Katyn (pronounced 'cotton'), located west of Smolensk. The executed officers had been prisoners of war, and another 11,000 were missi...
I would like to know the following information about FOriegn Armies West: 1. When was it organized? 2. What did it include? 3. Who was in charge of it from the time of its creation until 1941? 4. What
I have just signed a contract with West View Press to prepare a book on the German offensive south of Kursk in July 1943. This offensive resulted in the famous Battle of Prokhorovka. Due to a governme
...njoy prison, after all!) The Americans generally sent Axis prisoners from North Africa to the U.S. Southwest. Both countries were following the Geneva injunction to house prisoners in a climate simila...
...tacked the British colonial possessions, Malaya, Dutch IC, etc.. but avoided PNG, Australia, and pushed westwards towards India etc.. and perhaps the Meditarrean, instead of their southward and eastwa...
...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...
... 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 ...
Can someone tell me if the US tracked, spotted or attacked any Japanese Subs off the coast of Washington, California or Oregon during W.W.II.
...o was called a writer, didn't care for accuracy. He was a US 'pulp' author during the heyday of the Old-West gunfighters. He specialized in recounting their escapades, most of which were brilliant and...
...ld have given some warning of this defensive advantage. That type of landscape is not uncommon in South-west England, so presumably training could have taken place in a realistic environment. It seeme...
...e extended line and thereby saved their armour for massive counterblows against Soviet attacks into the west. The task of straightening the line hardly seemed a good reason to sarifice the remnants of...
...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...
...umentation that indicates that the 473d Infantry assaulted and captured Mt Belvedere (the mountain Northwest of Florence, Italy) and were forced off the mountain during the night by heavy German count...
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