A couple decades ago the essay linked below was written by a USAF LtCol Kirkland. After reviewing French records his views are represented in...
Petain was a crusty old conservative and Catholic who had not much contact with Free masonry. The Army was his social group & he bought off on a...
I recall the same described during the Napoleonic wars. One specific case during the Waterloo battle & another in Spain.
Rus... can you translate the cartoons and posters. I am having a lot of trouble. Rus ... Вы можете переводить карикатуры и плакаты. У меня много...
They may have been transffered to a medical unit for administrative purposes. As the army was demobilized and packed home men with too few...
Two other books recommended. 'Japans Decision to Surrender' by Robert C Butow. This has even more detail than 'Downfall' tho a drier read. It...
It was a big nasty & violent battle. It was fought mostly with assualts supported by massed artillery, lots of air strikes (on the Allied side),...
From the linked artical: " ...the toll of the dead and missing stood at 198 sailors and 551 soldiers, a total of 749," Note that this was a...
Studying the German losses from Allied tactical airstrikes it appears the best use was against the 'soft' targets. The trucks, towed cannon,...
I have Colonel Hiromichi Yahara's history of the 'Battle for Okinawa' on my desk here. Col Yahara was a staff officer with the 32d Army that...
With no war in China there is less friction with the US & Britian. However were Japan to ally itself with Germany so it could seize the...
Not useless, but inadaquate. A few German positions were stunned or destroyed before the first wave arrived, but not nearly enough. Aside from...
Have we had this conversation before? A couple times in the past year I've made some brief post comparing the 125 LVT carrying the first wave...
It seems everyone here is unaware of the ammount of smoke & haze that actually did obscure Omaha Beach. This came in three forms. 1. natuaral...
I'd have thought you would have read & remembered the earlier discussion better. Did this happen often? What % of cargo was significantly...
A sucessfull late 1942 enclave on the French coast places several different sets of pressures on the Germans in 1943. Losses in combat units will...
Both items were true in the Tunisian campaign, yet as I pointed out the Allied airforces won that battle. Must be the other items discussed...
macrusk....thanks. I've been through both of those. Not nearly the detail I am looking for. Sprinkled through this thread are the various...
The short answer is, I dont know. After reading through all the commentary I could lay hands on my conclusion is those writers were not very sure...
The Sarr offensive was designed to pressure the Germans into reinforcing the west front by reducing the attack on Poland. When the Poles...
