What was the difference between these 2 position within a battalion or regiment of the German (or American) army? What were the typical wartime...
This is excellent information - thank you! Their (Indian's) response to the manpower needs of their country in World War 2 was certainly...
After the FSSF was disbanded on 5 December 1944, the Americans in the unit joined other U.S. Army units. Would these men have been allowed to wear...
I am currently reading A Perfect Hell by John Nadler, which is about the First Special Service Force. A number of Native Americans distinguished...
When a machine gun is fired continuously for an extended period of time, evidently the barrel will "burn out." This I have learned from reading,...
In George's "A Rifleman Went to War", he was pretty critical of using machine guns in this matter. Thought that a great deal of pre-war training...
I recently read "The Last Stand of Fox Company," the story of an American Marine Corps company defending a hill against Chinese Communist forces...
I really don't think writers / historians have heaped praise undue praise upon the T34/85 nor have they excessively criticized the Sherman 76....
I have one for this category that I don't think I have seen mentioned on this list before - Never So Few (1959) starring Frank Sinatra, Gina...
I began reading E. B. Sledge's book With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa shortly after I started this thread, and found that Mr. Sledge...
I have just finished watching (and re-watching) The Pacific on DVD, which has caused me to ponder the effects of combat on the psyches of the...
If I am a numbers cruncher at the pentagon planning a bomber offensive over Europe I would choose the B-24. As a father, I would want my son in...
I don't know if that is strictly true. For example, how could anyone call "Schindler's List" entertaining? But "Schindler's List" was a compelling...
I went to a theater last night and watched "Red Tails". I did not hate the movie but I would only rate it as mediocre. I do think it is a movie...
The B-24 in the photo posted in this thread was not hit by an R4M rocket. It was hit by flak over Blechhammer, Germany. Midair Explosion - B-24 -...
"Such magazines are harder to make dependable. It can be and was, done but straighter cases cause fewer headaches in semi and full auto...
I have read that one of the reasons the United States moved away from the 30-40 Krag round to the 30-03 (later 30-06) Springfield round for its...
As if the hazards of war were not enough. Horrifying to think you could be poisoned, killed, even eaten by a reptile.
That would be a bad way to go.
Do any of you know of any written accounts of Allied military personnel dying from venomous snake bite during the war? I know battles were fought...