I do remember a story he told me about when he was in the desert and he was unloading his truck and he got some stuff from it walked away put the...
He only faced the Para on Crete and didn,t talk about it a whole lot. He was in the transport platoon for the 22nd Battalion involved with...
Was he fighting at St Lo in Normandy?,what were the para divisions that fought for the Germans in Normandy. My grandfather fought with the 2nd...
Did he fight in cassino Town against the New Zealanders.?
I have always wondered why instead of attacking at Cassino the germans strongest position where the enemy had high ground advantage and the...
We can be rightly proud of our ANZAC,s they kicked arse in both world wars my grandfather was in the 22nd battalion 2nd New Zealand Division i...
They are some of the best german military photos i have seen.
No we considered ourselves part of the empire we didn,t consider ourselves British we saw ourselves as a New Zealand force with our own identity...
Check out www.nzetc.org you will find under the history section all the official histories of the 2nd New Zealand division fighting in WW2...
www.nzetc.org This website as the official histories avaliable to read and you can also buy them on disk from the site. I reccommed you take...
In WW1 we suffered something like 55,000 casulites from a country of 1.1 million it was a heavy price for a country of our size.
Rommel made this comment after the Minqar Qaim breakout Quote"unfortunately the new Zealanders under freyberg had escaped.This division which we...
The division started the war as a standard infantry division set up three brigades of infantry 4th,5th,6th brigades each of three infantry...
It would have been a awesome combination alright the biggest problem we faced in the desert war when our 2nd division was a ten battalion infantry...
Yeah i find it pretty dissapointing i,m proud of our people my grandfather was with the division in 22nd Battalion through Greece and Crete and...
They were a top division it,s a shame in the desert war they didn,t form an ANZAC corp with 2nd New Zealand division infantry,9th Australian...
Anyone who is interested in the history of the new Zealand Divisions in WW1 and WW2 cheak out the site www.nzetc.org it has the official histories...
It must have been a wild fight good on the Canadians. They weren,t as dumb as our commanders at Cassino trying to carpet bomb the place.
Agreed those Stukas without air supremecy were a death trap.
I guess for all soldiers there time in the trenches is so detached from the political leadership of there country you would get the SS loons who...
