I've seen a picture of a British Airborne medic at Arnhem and he's carrying a commando dagger. Of course, it may have just been so he could cut...
Just wondering a couple of things: 1. Why aren't you including American troops in your research? 2. Are you intending to make a distinction...
you could see his head out of the tank with his little Mütze (in English it is...?). Well literally it's "cap", but in Monty's case, it was a beret.
I'd say that with the exception of a few key tactical drops, airborne forces of both sides during the war weren't that effective. They were mostly...
My area is gliders, particularly British Airlanding units. I had an uncle who was a glider artilleryman with 1st Airborne. I also like the...
The largest losses always come through surrenders, rather than casualties. Look at the German encirclements of entire Russian armies in the...
Why? Because he'd be laughing too hard?
The Bob Semple tank I posted the pictures of is indeed a WW2 vehicle. It was produced in a bit of a panic by the New Zealand government at the...
You guys obviously don't know enough about WW2 tanks. :D What about the only ever New Zealand devloped tank, the "Bob Semple"? [img] [img]
The reasons for glider troops have all been outlined above. Some debate seems to exist though about how specialised these men were. In the...
I believe the MoH has been awarded to foreigners before. The Americans are a little freer with their awards than the Brits. But VCs and MoHs have...
Really? I wonder how they'll get around that? Part of the requirement for the award is that the recipient be publicly named in the London Gazette.
Not to mention the political repercussions back home in the USA when 10,000 casualties (the Allied estimate of what they'd suffer taking Berlin)...
Have a look here: Asian Heer soldiers
Yes, it's true. See my last answer. There has been some political lobbying to award a posthumous AVC to one John Simpson, who was a medic at...
As for a captain not landing in the first wave at Omaha, who can really say? We know that things got very mixed up very quickly on the run in,...
Bish, Australians can no longer win the VC. We've always had a rule against accepting decorations administered by foreign governments, but in the...
If none of you are from Sydney, you probably don't know that Sir (Arthur) Roden Cutlen VC died a couple of weeks ago. He won his VC fighting the...
OK, my first post here. No Aussie flag icon?! Omaha was always going to be a tough one. You can talk about obstacles, intelligence, green troops,...
