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my interests are anything ETO, but recently i have been focusing in on the Netherlands.

and.....

Ron, well said Sir! I truly enjoy reading your posts, and look forward to learning more from you!
Thanks again!!!

 

My interests are

- Air war over NW Europe, particularly the January 11, 1944 mission
- Ground war in Europe; tactics, strategy, eye witness accounts
- Allied casualties in The Netherlands; I try and research the lives and deaths of the men buried in my country.
- Self published books by veterans

Slipdigit; you might find this book interesting, about the naval battle in the Java sea. Self published AnotherSixHundred- A True Naval History in Narrative Form

 

As i've just returned after a three year absence my original post remains the same but now i'd like to add,

Battle of Normandy

Battle of Narva and the fighting in Estonia

The British in the Ardennes !!! Yes we were there !

Ron,

I'd like to send you greetings and best wishes from a fellow Gunner , 4 Field Regiment , RA, great to see you passing on your knowledge and experiences to us , your war service certainly was " Ubique ",

Paul

 

My Dad found a postcard from one of his relatives recently (Forget what relation they where), and he got captured in the Ardennes!

 

Ost Front.

Have always loved reading books about first hand experience soldiers [American or German] accounts of the war.

Armor.

 

I know alot of stuff. Feel free to ask.

 

Through my grandfathers the interest for WW2 was more focused on the British than the Norwegian campaign. But later it grew to expand beyond the Med and Europe, as I found that everything was connected. I was also drawn into the Russian front on account of a Waffen SS veteran 'Nordland' that lives nearby. (to me a as a lad it was impossible to understand that a soldier decorated for fighting the Nazis in the Norwegian campaign , would join their elite forces a year later). Starting my service the interest expanded into the realm of doctrine and tactics.

The areas I am looking into now is the American ground forces and the RAF.

 

SO far I think he has done that some 2,011 times...

 

I've been reading and watching television programs on World War II since I was a kid. If I watched a show or movie & had questions, I got sent off to research. So, at least 40 years of being fascinated and learning. While I am interested in the actions of British, American, and other nationalities during WWII, I am most interested in the Canadian experience in the War.

Operation Jubilee (if my father hadn't been badly injured by a parachute bomb shortly before-hand he would have been there; his battery the 16th battery 3LAA was the only artillery unit to go to Dieppe; he recovered to serve NW Europe)
Normandy: Caan, Falaise Gap
Holland/Belgium: Antwerp, Battles for the Scheldt, Bresken Pocket, Gronigen, Nijmegn Salient
Westerbork Concentration Camp
The Holocaust
Military Intelligence: Camp X, Enigma/Ultra, Bletchley Park, William Stephenson
Hochwald Forest
Civilian Life WW2
Effect on lives during and after World War II
The Pacific
First Special Services
First Person accounts, such as George Blackburn's trilogy of life in the Canadian Artillery

Also, interested in all areas and time periods of history. Currently reading Terry Copp's Fields of Fire" and Dennis Whitaker's "Tug of War" both about Canadians fighting in NW Europe. In the wings waiting is "Cinderella Army" by Terry Copp.

Michelle

 

Slightly o/t but I can say 'snap', macrusk - I'm also reading Copp's book right now and enjoying it very much. Have also just finished Reid's 'No Holding Back'.

 

My areas of Knowledge

I am a vehicle spotter any shape, any size. Always learning.
AFV's or Softskins, main interest is British and Commonwealth armies.
British Airborne in particular 6th Airborne Div.
Airlanding and glider borne operations.

 

• Well, my interest in the WW2 are first the german U-Boats.
• Other, very interesting for me are the enormous quantity of information hosted in the Internet sites and archives in english and attempt share with my friends of U-Historia -in spanish-
• And practice my written English with all of you, my dear friends.