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    The Atlantic Wall Was A Propaganda Tool

    The Atlantic Wall was subject of many an article and the Todt Organisation was endowed with a highly active propaganda service which provided a...
    Thread by: Jim, Nov 22, 2010, 2 replies, in forum: Hitler's Atlantic Wall
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    Adolf Hitler

    In this 1928 photograph, Hitler wears a military uniform and the Iron Cross he earned as a soldier in World War I. [img]
    Thread by: Jim, Nov 13, 2010, 1 replies, in forum: Who Was Who Of Germany In WWII
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    Lucie Aubrac Talks About Collaborators

    Mme Lucie Aubrac, young French Resistance fighter, defended in London in 1944 the action of her countrymen in shaving the heads of French...
    Thread by: Jim, Nov 3, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: The Secret War: Resistance and Espionage During WW
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    Most Fantastic Escape Of The War

    This story was first told in newspapers around April 1945 A man who was thrice condemned by the Gestapo to be executed first by hanging, then...
    Thread by: Jim, Nov 2, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: A Soldier's Story
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    The Great Poster Disaster

    Few printed documents are as remarkable as the posters reproduced here. At a cost of £44,000, the British government launched them as a rallying...
    Thread by: Jim, Nov 1, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: History of Britain during World War II
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    The Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun

    The widely acknowledged success of the 40-mm Bofors gun has tended to overshadow the fact that the Swedish company of Bofors also made a larger...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 27, 2010, 2 replies, in forum: Allied Heavy Weapons
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    Ordnance QF 25-pdr

    The gun that was to become one of the most famous of all British artillery pieces had its origins in operational analysis after World War I that...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 27, 2010, 1 replies, in forum: Allied Heavy Weapons
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    The Canon de 105 mie 1913 Schneider

    In the first decade of this century the French Schneider concern took over the Russian Putilov armaments factory as part of a deliberate plan of...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 27, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: Allied Heavy Weapons
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    Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun

    Soviet troops were principally armed with the robust and very effective Pistolet-Pulemet Shpagina 01941g, or PPSh-41 submachine gun. Designed by...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 22, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: Russian Light Weapons
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    Tanya Chernova

    Nineteen-year-old Tanya Chernova had once dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But after serving as a partisan in her native Belorussia, she made her...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 22, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: History of Russia during World War II
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    Pavlov's House

    Nicknamed the 'Houseowner' by his comrades, Sergeant Jacob Pavlov, Hero of the Soviet Union and pre-war accountant, held a battered four-storey...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 17, 2010, 1 replies, in forum: War on the Eastern Front
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    German Flame Thrower

    The Germans had pioneered the use of flame-throwers in World War One at Verdun. The models deployed in the early days of World War One had in fact...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 14, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: German Light Weapons
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    The Fight For The Grain Elevator At Stalingrad

    Andrey Khozyaynov, a sailor serving in the Naval Infantry Brigade, who was the only survivor of the battle for the Grain Elevator, lived to write...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 14, 2010, 2 replies, in forum: War on the Eastern Front
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    Georgy Zhukov

    Georgy Zhukov, who would become one of the finest leaders of the Soviet Army, had modest beginnings. Born near Moscow of peasant stock like many...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 11, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: History of Russia during World War II
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    The Enigma Machine and Lucy

    The Enigma was a highly sophisticated mechanical encryption device that had a keyboard and looked superficially like a typewriter. The German...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 11, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: War on the Eastern Front
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    Armed Resistance Fighter

    For Four Years The Germans Tried To Catch Me... Emile Declercq, 23-year-old son of a Belgian grain merchant, was known to the Germans as a...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 11, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: A Soldier's Story
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    Hamilcar Glider

    On Britain's huge Glider aircraft the Hamilcar, which the Germans believed to be a troop carrier depended much of the success of the Allied...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 10, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: Allied Aviation Of WWII
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    The Mulberry Harbours

    To enable the forces already on the Normandy coast on D-Day to be reinforced and kept supplied with utmost speed it was necessary that two...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 3, 2010, 10 replies, in forum: Normandy Landing Beaches
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    Sappers Removing The German Booby Traps

    Germans retreating through Northern Italy, late in 1944, made increasingly desperate attempts to delay the Allied advance with mines and...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 3, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: The War In Italy
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    Last Shots Fired In Channel Duel

    Cross channel shelling of the Dover area by the Germans began on August 12th 1940 and, with the capture of the French ports, ceased in September...
    Thread by: Jim, Oct 1, 2010, 1 replies, in forum: History of Britain during World War II
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