History Forum / War History / World War II / February 2007

The film alluded to an archeological discovery of buried letters found 50+
year after the battle.
I'm curious but has there been any archelogical works on the island? And did
they find letters? I'm sure the descendents of the soldiers would be

What was the status of the French telephone system in the occupied and
Vichy parts of France during the war?
Was it disabled or allowed to operate under German supervision?  If
the latter, how did the Germans go about monitoring it...  Did they

THE HOLOCAUST AND DAVID IRVING
Reading one of David Irving's books, "Hess, The
Missing Years", one can discover and measure
the mendacity, perversity and very dishonest

Europe before WW2 imported food. With the start of WW2, the British
stopped food imports to the region, except from Russia, but once Hitler
attacked Russia this soon stop too. In NAZI dominated Europe food
shortages were common and rationing, even in Germany, was strict. Some

This pdf is:
TITLE(S): World War II P.O.W. and internment camps : a list of
camp numbers and locations with brief details where possible of camp
populations, etc

We are using Flickr for collaborative indexation of a set
of 2330 historical photos about Battle of Normandy (from DDay to 25
August 1944).
These photos are free of rights and come from "National Archives USA"

I recently found a German photo book on the French campaign of the
Totenkopf division. It contains a inscription that I believe to be
printed, but I am not sure. Is there anybody here that can read the
text?

I know of a case in December, 1940, in which a Leading Aircraftsman
who had just graduated as a pilot from #2 Service Flying School at
Uplands, in Ottawa, punched out his commanding officer at a grauation
party. He was immediately demoted to "AC2 (Amended)," assigned to

I'm currently working on the transcription of the June 1945 After Action
Report of 7th Armored Division's Combat Command "R", which I hope to post to
the 7th Armored Division Document Repository web site (
http://home.comcast.net/~johnstonww/ ) by Monday, 19 Feb 2007.

Which US Division had the most men killed in combat in the Netherlands?
I believe the only candidates are: 2ID, 7AD, 30ID, 82AB, 101AB, 82AB.
This is NOT a question of which of these divisions lost the most men in the
war -- but specifically deaths in Holland (or DOW deaths ...

Looking for any information about a wicker wine case holding two bottles
of wine which was retrieved from a wine cellar on the estate of Field
Marshall Erwin Rommel's family after World War II. Specifically, I'd
like to determine where the case was made (looks like Italian

Michele Armellini wrote:
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A little pre- WWII, but hopeflly someone here might know.  The Vickers
Medium Mk II and it's variants had AFAIK a 3pdr (47mm) 2cwt QF gun as
the main weapon.  Now I know that larger caliber pre-war weapons
usually had lower velocity and therefore less armor penetration, but I

Does anyone know of a book that specifically covers the period when
the German army was on the defensive in the winter of 1941-42. Its
mentioned in all general books on the eastern front, how the german
army held on to isolated positions etc and were often supplied by air,

Is there someplace online that contains lists of unit or troop rosters?
In particular, I'm looking for a unit roster and duty assignments for
the 294th Joint Assault Signal Company on D-Day.
Thanks!  -Walt