Interestingly, the German Armed Forces used the French 75 as a stop-gap AT weapon from early 1942 on, combining captured gun barrels and the...
My grandfather was expelled from Alsace-Lorraine in 1919 when the French occupied the territories and executed kind of an ethnic cleansing - at...
Today, on Memorial Day in Germany, on the very time of the wreath ceremony, my father died of old age. He held the Cross of Iron, the Silver...
Hello again Von Poop, following Your advice, I registered on the British WW2Talk site. The British cousins have been very very kind and helpful...
Hello Von Poop, Thank You for Your advice. I'll try to ask around on this British site. By the way, the French publication I referred to is a...
Howdy! Does anyone know a publication about British tactical signs of WWII? Or a website where I could find further information? You know, those...
As a German, I would naturally prefer mostly German equipment with some remarkable exceptions... And as someone stated before, rifle and MG as...
Hi Ulrich, as a Prussian, it is an even greater pleasure for me to welcome You on this site! Wendelin
Thank You for the link! St. Avold is not very far from here, although I've never been there. I will visit the cemetery soon and look for the grave...
By coincidence, I found out that Staff Sergeant Andrew Miller from Company G, 377th Infantry, 95th Infantry Division, got killed in action in the...
The Panzerfaust fired hollow charge projectiles. These could - and would - be used as a substitute for HE projectiles by German AT guns or...
Isn't the Springfield a derivative of the Mauser? Is there as great a difference? To be honest, I've never seen any one of the two in reality.
Many snipers rather take bolt and some rather take semi-automatic. Even the US Army snipers gave up an M-14 semi-automatic derivative in favor...
My father was a veteran of the 1940 and 1941 campaigns. He had the luck to receive peacetime training in the German Wehrmacht before going to war....
The man with the eyeglasses seems to be the Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~diebon06/index.html
Has anyone of You ever seen the Polish movie "Lotna" from the famous Director Andrzej Wajda? The movie recounts the fate of an Uhlan Squadron in...
Again, thank You all very much! And special thanks to Skipper! At about the time this card has been stamped my Grandfather must have left Hambach...
Hi Erich, that would be interesting. 2 years ago, I stood on the platform on top of the Völkerschlacht-Denkmal in Leipzig. Unfortunately, I wasn't...
Hi Skipper, my Grandfather was born in Hambach - les - Sarreguemines. That's where the "Smart" Car is built today. Best regards
