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IJN supply question	01 May 2006 00:59 GMT	131
How did the IJN intend to supply their bases in the Aleutians as well as carry the defensive in the Southern and South Eastern theatre? Even if all was going perfectly according to plan, iirc they only had 1,000,000 tons of merchant shipping to carry it out- not to mention Japan's ...
Fw: Breakdown - military costs and budgeting	29 Apr 2006 22:14 GMT	1
: "BernardZ" <bernardZ@Nospam.com> posted April 27: > Surely somewhere in Nazi Germany there would be a department for > budgeting that would have recorded the actual expenditure of a major > part or some economist/historian would have done some calculations.
Allied Access to Switzerland	28 Apr 2006 00:25 GMT	1
Switzerland faced the problem of living between two Axis powers, Germany and Italy. After the German occupation of the Frech Unoccupied (Vichy) zone, Switzerland was totally surrounded by Axis-controlled
5 to 7, 144 down - what could that mean	27 Apr 2006 16:21 GMT	8
I'm working on translation of piece of text (Virginia Woolf's Diary to be precise) and I have encountered some codes of military meaning I assume. The entry is about UK bombardment in 1940: "The All Clear, 5 to 7. 144 down last night."
Fw: Stalin's Peace Offer 1941?	26 Apr 2006 04:52 GMT	9
: "chuckwood" <imws11@gmail.com> posted April 20: > German soldiers had been travelling to Russia to train the Soviets on how to > fight in their Winter! Yet the Nazis were woefully unprepared for the
Midway results vs US Navy doctrine	26 Apr 2006 04:49 GMT	92
Since I am a buff who gets his history second hand from the library and not a scholar who gets it first hand through research, I can't tell you where I got this idea. But it has been in my head for several years that the US Navy doctrine for combined air attack on surface ships was
Fw: ravensbruck camp experiments	26 Apr 2006 04:48 GMT	1
"Mahheyta" <mszach1971@yahoo.com> posted April 25: > High altitude, pharmacological, sterilization, hypothermia (freezing > experiments), brutal surgeries and infecting people with infectious > diseases were all common practice everywhere, including Ravensbruck.
Ammunition in combat engagements	25 Apr 2006 22:32 GMT	10
I was wondering - how close to the battle field the vehicles could resupply. I mean suppose that there is a fighting for a village. Suppose that few tanks, assault guns are involved that support the infantry. What happens when after 15-20 minutes the tanks run out of HE ammo. How ...
The Myth of V2 Inaccuracy and Ineffectiveness	25 Apr 2006 19:15 GMT	12
Walter Dornberger, the young Artillery officer along with Werner von Braun is credited with being the main driving force behind The EMW A4 (i.e. V2) ballistic missile development in Germany during the second world war.
ravensbruck camp experiments	25 Apr 2006 05:41 GMT	4
I'm coducting reasearch into experimentation in concentration camps which includes details on what happened within each of the extermination camps. Although I have looked in many books there isn't much detail on the Ravenbruck camp. can anyone give any detail on which
Fw: Breakdown of Germany military costs	24 Apr 2006 19:03 GMT	7
"bernardz" <bernardz@mail.com> posted April 12: > Germany could not towards the end of the war run fleets of heavy > bombers. Its was V1 and V2s or give up bombing. By the way in > comparsion the V1 was an extremely cost effective project.
Why Did Hitler Order Aircraft Production Cuts in 1940?	24 Apr 2006 17:44 GMT	16
According to a book I am reading, Hitler ordered a cut in aircraft production for the Luftwaffe in August 1940, right at the height of the Battle of Britain. The book
Fw: Post-war German Constitution	23 Apr 2006 20:35 GMT	5
: "Henry Reardon" <Henry_ReardonNOSPAM@hotmail.com> posted April 22: > How did the post-war (West) German constitution and legal system differ > from the Weimar constitution that had been in effect when Hitler became > Chancellor? . . . For example, did they do away with
V-2 Firings into Germany from Holland -- Topic Revisited	23 Apr 2006 20:31 GMT	45
In May 2005, I posted this thread-starter: Walter B. Maass, on page 226 of his fascinating and very readable book "The Netherlands at War: 1940-1945", wrote the following: "In desperation, the Germans tried to destroy the fatal Remagen bridge by
Post-war German Constitution	23 Apr 2006 05:45 GMT	1
How did the post-war (West) German constitution and legal system differ from the Weimar constitution that had been in effect when Hitler became Chancellor? I'm curious to know what safeguards the post-war Germans put in place to