On page 355 of Tigers In Combat One (Fedorowicz, 1994) Wolfgang Schneider describes sPzAbt 507 fighting in the area of Hamborn, Germany on 30 March, 1945. He states that 3rd Company of sPzAbt 507 ...
my late Father, Lt General Phillip B Davidson, was in the 3rd Cav from the time it turned in its horses at Ft Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1942, through Camp Gordon,Georgia when it became fully mechanized. ...
Was there a 4 star general during world war II named Summerville? He would have had something to do with supplies and the location of testing of the atomic bomb.
Do you know the names of the 2 companions of Major General Maurice Rose who escaped his jeep as the General was killed? I think one of them may have been my father. I can be reached at ...
having lived in the area where the gerneral died , i have uncovered that american troops did indeed kill waffen SS troops who had surrended to them here below is an acount of their numbers : ... ...
To whom it may concern, I'm looking to find out about the cartoon series by Bill Mauldin called "The 12 General Orders." My dad had 2 original sets from WWII. He told me General Patton banned these ...
freerap wrote: The Germans may also have had the best tactical leaders in WW II, but they had no skillful strategic leader.Mistake. Germany had a good set of strategic leaders. The problem is that ...
I might sound a bit too harsh, but is not intended. English is not my first language and I'm just trying to state facts, but I know it might sound harsher than what it is in fact. As I said, I don't ...
A good book, certainly, and well worth getting, but it is one person's opinion. Read it, and read the books he recommends that appeal to you, but don't stop there. I've seen valid criticisms of all ...
the NRA did not exist during WWII, nor was there any need to exist until the communist leftwing started attacking the 2nd Amendment civil right of US citizens. Thats actually false, the National ...
... anding of the organization of WW2 US Army infantry structures is as follows: Division lead by major general, consisted of about 10 battalions Brigade lead by brigadier general, consisted of 2-5 ...
Apparently general Swartzkopf said that Paul Kagame was the greatest practitioner if maneuver war fare and I would like to read a study of military tactics that the Rwandans used in there civil war, ...
:>4) Finally, Hitler and his cronies put together an organised plan, in :>January 1942 , at Wannsee to wipe out the Jews.This highly organised :>extermination was only the ideological PRODUCT of a ...
Here is the documentation CSM Horace Pearl's Silver Star: Awarded for actions during the World War II The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, ...
I recall reading that of the approx 15,000,000 people who served in the US armed forces during WW2, 12,000,000 were drafted. This is a little misleading since, IIRC, it became almost impossible to ...
WW1 ended when it did because the Germans ran out of everything in the end. For all the menace of the German U-boat threat, the real effective blockade was done by the Allied surface fleet. Food ...
Gen> Chuck Yeager was an enlisted man who became a flight officer or as some called it, "Flying Sergeants". A little while later he received a commission and became an officer and retired as a ...
The Black Panther Division 'The Black Panther Division' was the nickname given to the 66th Infantry Division of the United States. This infantry was active from April 1943 to November 1945. This ...
Hmm, it depends, normal infantry (SS or otherwise) usually only had one LMG per squad, it was the glamorous Schutzen/PanzerGrenadiers who seemed to end up with two. So a squad (or 9-10 men) would ...
I hate to interject, especially two year later, but I can document the plan to use U-233 in 1945. The Germans had access to an abundance of uranium and so did the Americans, so U-239 was their first ...
Ally Occupied Germany 1947 Allied Control Council or Allied Control Authority refers to the Four Powers composed of United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain and France (France may have been a ...
... nse Department issues to each a veteran a DD-214 that identifies his condition (discharge/honorable/general/honorable/ dishonorable/bad conduct). Simply put this is the Report of Separation. This ...
... to see what readers of this NG thought on the subject below? i have included a brief summary of the general views of different Historians. these are the two catagories to which historians are ...
... THREE ss branche's.The Totenkopferbande(death heads)ss(concentration camp guards),the Allgemeine SS(general ss),and the Waffen SS.The ss Verfungungstruppe(SS-VT)Were meant to be military trained ...
I would guess that we would have had the same general results, just a lot more blood. The 352nd 'withdrew' because it was no longer operational having been bludgeoned pretty much to death. It was ...
In case you are thinking of a dramatic way being used by the Polish fighting alongside Germans once captured by the Allied forces, I found no such incident. So my guess is that the use of normal ...