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| Supply General JCH Lee? | 31 Jul 2006 22:59 GMT | 1 |
It seems most books do not have a positive opinion about the General in
charge of supplies, JCH Lee. A common theme is that he took luxurious
quarters in Paris and his did a poor job. I believe a black market
developed under him as well late in the war.
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| attack on Milan 1944 by allied airforce | 31 Jul 2006 17:43 GMT | 20 |
On this page:
http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/italy/italych12.htm
a leaflet "Vendetta" is shown. Prepared by the German SS, it was spread to
Italian civilians. So it is in Italian language. A translation is given.
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| Fw: RN sleeve rank insignia | 31 Jul 2006 11:11 GMT | 1 |
"Merlin Dorfman" <dorfman@green.rahul.net> posted July 30:
> This morning I watched "The Man Who Never Was" on TV--a really
> terrific movie.
> I noticed that some of the Royal Navy officers had the |
| Chemicals in US bombs?? | 30 Jul 2006 21:07 GMT | 7 |
Lately I had an argument with my father-in-law and he argued that the
allies dropped bombs and their chemicals (or whatever they're composed
of) have effected the soil and that it's no wonder that his vegetables
don't grow properly or are smaller.... 60 years on!!
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| Karski reporting in London | 30 Jul 2006 21:07 GMT | 1 |
I found the following piece of text (Hoover Digest 2000 . No. 4):
Wearing a Ukrainian guard's uniform, Karski later gathered information at
Izbica-a "sorting point," as he called it, for the Belzec extermination
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| Wartime long distance telephone limited bandwidth | 30 Jul 2006 20:46 GMT | 8 |
This is a technical question about long distance US telephone service
during the war.
As we know, the war caused telephone usage to skyrocket.
To improve capacity, the Bell System reduced the bandwidth of voice
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| American draftees--poor physical condition? | 30 Jul 2006 20:42 GMT | 83 |
In several histories (including Omar Bradley's) it says American young
men drafted for the military were "soft", out of shape, and needed to
be toughened up for military service. They also suffered from poor
nutrition and medical care.
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| Fw: any one can help me about ww2 panzer aces? | 30 Jul 2006 20:42 GMT | 1 |
"OTTO SCORTINI" <TEACHER1.YAS@gmail.com> posted
> i want information about panzer aces in ww2 You are presumably asking about German army
tank commanders. "Ace" is conventinally used
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| Fw: Atheists in the wartime armies | 30 Jul 2006 20:40 GMT | 1 |
"George & Jean Mandler" <mandler@ucl.ac.uk> posted July 29:
> As far as the US Army was concerned, I dont think anybody particularly
> cared, dogtags could omit religious information and my guess is that most of
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| Cassino - the hardest fought battle? | 29 Jul 2006 17:54 GMT | 9 |
I just finished the very readable book "Monte Cassino: The
Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II" by Matthew Parker. I liked the
book but wonder if it exagerated the scale of Cassino. For example, the
first paragraph of his Introduction says: "Only the bloodbaths of
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| Anglo-Nippon war 1930s | 28 Jul 2006 04:29 GMT | 33 |
What were British war plans against Japan in the 1930s?
If Japan had moved against Malaya during that period- how did Britain plan
to defend its colonial possessions?
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| Fw: attack on Milan 1944 by allied airforce | 27 Jul 2006 16:24 GMT | 2 |
: "Roman Werpachowski" <roman.werpachowski@gmail.com> posted July 26:
> If there is a thing the Italians should really be ashamed of, it would
> be messing with some poor people in Ethiopia, just for an illusion of |
| SS officers list | 25 Jul 2006 18:39 GMT | 4 |
Is there a list of the names of SS officers? I want to look up if there
was an SS officer named Stefanowski (possibly a Germanized Pole).
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| Generals Nicknames | 24 Jul 2006 04:22 GMT | 36 |
"Old blood And Guts", well you know who I'm talking about.
Troops often come up with pithy nicknames for Generals either their own
or the opposition.
"Desert Fox"
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| Fw: Hitler Vs Churchill | 23 Jul 2006 17:31 GMT | 21 |
"Louis Capdeboscq" <louisec00@yahoo.com> posted July 3:
> Without the simultaneous and interlocking factors of Hitler gaining
> power, world war II, the failure of Allied strategies and in particular
> the defeat of France, Churchill would only be remembered as a hawkish MP |
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