Yes. Approval of travel was based on your business. Amoung my notes is a magazine articall by a Brit artillery Captain describing a English...
Can anyone outline the history of the the SS Pz Corps that moved from France to the USSR in the winter of 1942-43? Or point me to a on line or...
One of the problems with focusing on Route 6, the Liri Valley, & Cassino are the mountains that over look the Liri for some 30 kilometers. The...
There was also Operation Strangle. The Allied airforces had been conducting a series of attacks on the German supply transport across Italy....
Eventually they did. Kesslerings decision to abandon that sector of the Gustav Line was due to the US 2d corps (85th & 88th Divs) & the French...
A few bombers were carrying heavy bombs. Cant recall off the top exactly how many, perhaps less than 5%. Those were intended for specific...
When you study the overall campaign for the Liri river valley you will see a larger obsession. The Allied commanders had become fixtiated on the...
1. Dolittle was involved for his engineering expertise. He had been deeply involved in Army aviation engineering in the 1920s & early 1930s, &...
4th Marines were already long in China. The 1927 expedition was of the 3rd Brigade. Cant recall if it included the 6th or the 7th Regiment. The...
Via the Reichsbank & other business efforts Germany did attempt large scale investment in South America. The efforts did not go as far as hoped...
I gamed this one a time or two In 1939 the German army and airforce is still relatively small. In the autum & winter of 1939 a series of...
As an aside, reflecting on US 'Asia' policy in these years, what is the take amoung folks here on the US deployment of the Marine Brigade to China...
When I posted a similar WI on another site (Britian & France support China in 1937) my presumption was these two Allies had decided to take...
The heavy losses on 6 June in men, as many as 4,700 killed wounded & missing; and vehicals slowed down the subsequent advance. It also took the...
The opening of that film was suposed to model the experience of one of the Ranger companies that landed on the far right of Omaha Beach. They...
Stantons order of Battle for the US Army in WWII would be a good cross check to that, and may have some other details. Both regiments hav unit...
NY320Capt...whats your flying background? As a artillery FO I often sat beside the FAC coordinating air/artillery strikes in training exercises....
Thanks. Very interesting. That confirms every other inspection of the German positions I've found. While the air strike would not have had the...
Some folks avoid this kind of thing as they prefer the myths. Also I've been told by a couple people that eyewitness accounts are worthless & to...
Did some reading on this the previous two years and NY320Capt has a point. Although as always the reality is not simple. Here are two aspects of...
