I know they served in WW2 but don't know their designations. Who were they and where did they serve (i.e. battles and campaigns)? It seems they never got the credit for their sacrifice.
I wish to know which U.S. Army units liberated the the village of Weisenfelden in the South Eastern part of Germany. It was near the town of Straubing , the reason being that my mother and ...
AWhat happened to my question about AGRC, MP,QM units stationed in Paris France between !945 and 1950 when the US Military were using ISLE SAINT GERMAIN as a US Army Base.there was a PX Theater and ...
list of AGRC or QM units located Paris France 1947-1948 I was enlisting in the US Military on Ile St Germain during that period. I saw the AGRC units when they recovered a US military person who they ...
Man for man, across the board, almost certainly the Germans. Better trained, better led, better disciplined, (etc., etc., etc.,) then almost any other national force. Especially indicative of this, ...
Your casualty figures for the German army in the Battle of the Bulge are way off! You probably got the 80,000 from a US estimate based upon what I do not know! The figures given in most popular ...
... thing I can get my hands on from pictures, rosters, hearing form those that served in any of these units 47th AFA 5th Armored Div 125th FA 104th Anti Aircraft ...
alex, take a look at the chinese "armies" of the period. Some of the chinese militias that fought the japanese and kept them from invading all the country were using even black powder guns in some ...
Im after any info on signal units in egypt my mother Irene <email> was stationed there at the year 1943/44/45 My dad was william james brown Mum and dad were in the British airforce
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
A Major would serve as a battalion executive officer (XO) and another as the operations officer. Other majors would serve on various higher level staffs. Unless the LtCol is out of action, Majors ...
First of all ,For what country did he serve , the units you have give was replicate in England and Australia but the date indicate the US. give us some information and we may be able to help.
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 'Panzer ...
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 ...
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, ...
Thanks Raymond for the feedback. I realise the phrase 'war-weary' was the wrong one to use for VMF-221's Wildcats, I didn't mean to give the impression they had seen combat prior to Midway. I meant ...
of these killed Jews? A thousand, perhaps more. Mr. Altmann, Thank you for that excellent summary. It is the best one page explanation of the background to the Holocaust I have read. My disagreeme
At the risk of boring everybody I need to respond to the second part of RAMjb's post. This is almost an entirely different topic on it's own from radiation at test sites. RAMjb wrote: Now down ...
Don't think so. Initially, the squads were armed with one LMG, the squad leader had a SMG, and everybody else had rifles. I think later on in the war, you started having squads with two LMGs, though ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_losses_in_World_War_II Finnish Air force lost 423 air craft during the Continuation War. 209 of them combat and 214 non-combat. Of those 209 combat losses, 86 ...
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 was the ...
Dear Ma'am Of course the 66th Div. were called the Panthermen. In German, an armored Division is called a Panzer Division. All I can say about the Bulge is that my dad was not there in the time ...
Sorry, I have not been on this forum for quite a long time. I am not familiar with much of the WWII insignia. If I were you, I would try to research it on the internet. Look for military insignia, ...
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 ...
Not all of them, the variety of SS collar patches is quite startling, even among the 'original' W-SS divisions. Yes, the skull and crossbones was used by Heer Panzer troops as well. As far as I can ...
The latest documentaries I have seen, it has been shown that most of the regular as well as SS armies committed atrocities especially as the end was near. They would kill and massacre as they ...
It is fascinating.... and extremely satisfying when you can match names, units, and experiences with the people involved. See, that is the thing, that amazes me. Each name that you see, was actually ...
Do you Age of the victim? It's the age of the perpetrator I would be more concerned with. Is there a minimum age that you can be charged with a war crime? Is there a 'Young Offenders Act' for war ...
... for his acts) As far as I know, there was a line of defence through the middle of France and many units were transported from Dunkirk and the Belgian beaches of La Panne (only a few miles away and ...
The 15 planes of Torpedo 8 form up and head away from the USS Hornet on the morning of June 4, 1942. None of these planes would return.On June 4th, 1942, the Battle of Midway saw the United States ...
The answers to that are as varied as the armies and battlefields. An efficient fighting force that wins a fight of any size would gather up or destroy all weapons and ammunition in the field. This ...
I think you will find that the concept of a mortar has not changed significantly. They are still high angle of elevation smooth bore devices that are muzzle loaded. They are not necessarily man ...
... is always best to have the complete full (every page) of a monthly report, due to details about the units actions at the beginning and end of the month. So, my answer is, the whole month if you are ...