History Forum / War History / World War II / July 2005

I have a question about the Intrepid Aircraft Carrier in New York City:
On the Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, I've heard there's a deck called the
Gallery Deck.  Where is the Gallery Deck on the Intrepid?

The LVF
Légion des volontaires francais contre le bolchévisme
Legion of the French Volunteers against Bolshevism
On June, 22 1941, the very same day the attack of Germany against the USSR

From numerous websites I gleaned the sketchy information that Hitler
had an official aircraft - a large FockeWulf Condor named Immelman II.
(Condor was a large German civilian passenger aircraft designed in the
mid 1930's. It could carry 40 people on non-stop transatlantic journeys

Re differences between US and UK conscription:
Stan Mapstone <Stanmapstone@aol.com> posted July 25 in
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.britain

I have read Albert Pierrepoints (British chief hangman 1941-1956)
biography written in the 1970s.
Just after the war he made many trips to Germany to hang Nazi war
criminals. It appears he hanged more than a hundred and fifty war

How do you feel about historically inacurate fiction?
I am reading a WWII novel which is historically (and
geographically) inaccurate.  It both bothers me and
reminds me that it is fiction.  Not only does the

Has anybody ever heard the complete address to his people of August 15th, 1945 or knows where to locate it?

I have just finished reading "Crimes and Mercies" by Bacque.  I am
aware that there is some sort of "consensus" out there that Bacque is
completely discredited, etc.  However, I am having difficulty finding
anything of real substance.  I have already ordered the book edited by

As I understand it, the Japanese motivations for attacking Pearl
Harbour went like this:
Japan needed oil to run its economy and war effort, but the US had
enacted an oil embargo against Japan.

A quote book has the following unsourced stories about Winston
Churchill:
During the war, Churchill one day left the House of Commons to hail a
cab to go to Shepherd's Bush, the site of the BBC studio.  At his wave,

My daughter is to attend school tomorrow dressed as she would have been
in the 1940's. I'd like to send her as an evacuee (not litrally!). Has
anyone any idea what would have been on the labels attached to each
child?

With all the "hand-wringing" about the use of atomic bombs in World War
II at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of which "hand-wringing" began 10 or
more years after the war ended, think of the advantage of having the
bomb ready in time for when one or more major purely military targets

A new book has come out comparing Hitler to Stalin.  The book is called
"The Dictators Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia" and it's by Richard
Overy (WW Norton, 2004).  The book contains considerable detailed
information and footnote citations for the reigns of both dictators.  A

Patrick J. Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination and the Reform Party's candidate in 2000. He is also a founder
and editor of the new magazine, The American Conservative. Now a political
analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist, he served ...

does any one know the origin of the red, white, and blue panel
displayed on the tails of RAF and commonwealth a/c during
WWII?
Robert