Trooper Freeman was a guard on the SS Arandora...He was a member of the Sherwood Rangers.
German troops enter the Rhineland.............'36
Saar region returned to Germany in 1935!
On this Day..........first army crosses the rhine over the remagen railway bridge!....1945
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE! yuk!
hello chaps.....as far as realism goes movie wish , my buzz is the russian made COME AND SEE by alex klimov..........a must see...anyone???
hi all...currently i am reading THE 12TH SS by HUBERT MEYER...an amazing book, presise, consise and a must read! and.. A TANK SOLDIERS STORY by...
hi...i am currently researching the use of alcohol and drugs during ww2...from montys issue of speed to russian vodlka...saki to schnaps and...
seeking anyone interested in researching living irish veterans of ww2,to compile visual history....kwjmcd@hotmail.com....karlo
howdy all.. i just thought i'd like to share this with you...two doors down from me ( i live in south dublin) is this guy Leo, hes in his 80's i'm...
a nice piece of info there thanks,,,something i'd never really thought about...but shows that certain aspects of ww2 were still ongoing...karlo
hi....Charles whiting says in his book 'the battle of hurtgen forest' that it was the longest battle fought by the US army...from sept 44 to feb...
hi...i am reading 'DUNKIRK' by simon sebag-montefiore......karlo
hi...just read the topic... i think any ex french foreign legion bloke would have been excepted into the ss regardless,,especially after saving...
hi...hope can be of some service ur grandfather would have been entitled to the 39-45 star if he...had served 6 or more months on active duty...
hello.....u-boat crews had black underwear...so dyed because they could not launder them freqently and would cover up a multitude of dirt...
hi... i cannot say about british army regulations but german army regulations forbade the carrying of weapons or sidearms by their army clergy tho...
hi henry....there is a german war cemetary at a place called glencree in the dublin mountains...set in a v beautiful part of...
i'd say it a babies christening day...also i think now that the guy on the left is the odd one out ..poss the babies father as he all the others...
he is def ss...pic mostly likey taken late 35 onwards as cap eagle this size only appeared then...def 38th also i'd say all are siblings with the...
