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TOS, I have some sympathy for Harris and his Bomber Command. Britain had endured many months of indiscriminate "terror bombing" by the germans...
Steve Petersen, United States Army Air Forces in World War II Have a wander through this fascinating and enormous site. It is a gold mine of...
Steve Petersen, The 8th AF dropped over a million incendiaries in the ETO. Is that "precision bombing'? John.
I bet the 2 blokes waiting to be rescued from the superstructure of the 'West Virginia' are praying the wind does not change. Even no wind at all...
I believe that as a result of the Dams Raid, Hitler ordered all dams in Germany to be defended by AAA, torpedo nets, and balloons etc. It tied...
G'Day ANZAC. My father in law was in the 18th Brigade, the 7th Div Supply Column actually, the same unit as Ron Barrassi Snr. Was in Tobruk and...
M/I = Marched In. M/O = Marched Out. AGH = Australian General Hospital CCS = Casualty Clearing Station. S/Cmd = Southern Command....
The term "Pucka" is short for Puckapunyal, a major Army base in Victoria, about 100kms north of Melbourne, near the town of Seymour. Puckapunyal...
From "The Rommel Papers" I believe, but I cannot give you a reference apart from that, "The Australian 9th Division was the finest Infantry...
TS, "land based air was not a factor against Japanese shipping at sea during the war." Battle of the Bismark Sea? John.
What a terrible picture of the Marine Colonel kneeling near his son's body. John.
Kai - Petri, "The Soviets apparently found Drax's Order of Bath particularly humorous, as they were under the impression that it referred to a...
