World War II
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:William H. Bartsch [Bartsch, William H.]

9 “Goddamn, They Got Me in the Eyes!” ABOUT FORTY-FIVE MINUTES AFTER George Codrea’s 1st Platoon, G Company, had been ordered to the line, the 2nd Platoon’s seventeen-year-old runner, Pvt. ...
( Category: World War II March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-21 | Author:Douglas Stark [Stark, Douglas]

Without Gotthoffer and with a retooled roster, Gottlieb’s SPHAS struggled to find any consistency in the first half, finishing with a dismal 4-9 record. One team whose vocabulary did not ...
( Category: History of Sports March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Ted Barris

JANUARY 1942—BANGKOK-TO-MOULMEIN RAILWAY, BURMA EVEN MEDICS WHO EXPERIENCED combat medicine under fire might not agree on whether they felt as if they were targets or not. During the Second World ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Danny S. Parker

SS Oberstgruppenführer Josef Dietrich, commander of the Sixth Panzer Army in the Ardennes, photographed at Berchtesgaden by Eva Braun while Dietrich was commander of the 1st SS Panzer Division. (U. ...
( Category: World War II March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Jim Pipe

Kilroy was here During World War Two a curious cartoon cropped up all over the world at truck stops, restaurants and military barracks. Accompanied by the phrase ‘Kilroy was here’, ...
( Category: World War II March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Mark Felton

On another muddy parade square 125 miles from Bad Orb, Colonel Sieber’s younger cousin had stood watching the latest batch of prisoners formed up in ranks for counting. It was ...
( Category: World War II March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven J. Zaloga

A tank patrol of the 3rd Armored Division scans for signs of the 116th Panzer Division near Houfallize on 23 December. The tank to the left is an M4A1 (76mm) ...
( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Susan Gillis

BRAAF soldiers welcomed the presence of women on the base from its early days. These women of the Army Nurse Corps pose outside the station hospital in January 1943. Pictured ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Kevin Dennehy

90th Division Monument at Utah Beach GOLD, JUNO, AND SWORD BEACHES, BRITISH LANDING ZONES Once again, we assume that you have access to an automobile for this tour and that ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-11 | Author:Angus Konstam

( Category: World War II March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Evelyn Monahan

Pvt. Berchard L. Glant (Courtesy of Berchard L. Glant) Junior was sharing his foxhole that night with a buddy, Private First Class Billie L. Stone. Stone was a native of ...
( Category: Women in History March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Joseph W. Bendersky [Bendersky, Joseph W.]

10 SS Terror, Anti-Semitism, and Resistance to Nazification The nazification of Germany created a strangely ambivalent psychological atmosphere of uncertainty, suspicion, and fear combined with a sense of normalcy in ...
( Category: Fascism March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Tim Carroll

With Rubberneck’s absence imminent, the Escape Committee immediately made plans to intensify digging in Harry. Unfortunately, Rubberneck seems to have been all too well aware of the universal euphoria that ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke

‘Ordinary Seaman Longsplice’ – a home-made dummy for ‘Man overboard’ exercises. Work involving all hands. Numerous members of the ship’s company are seen engaged in running out lines either at ...
( Category: Ships March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:National Air & Space Museum

IN 1944, THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM’S IL–2 WAS SHOT DOWN AND MADE A FORCED LANDING ON A FROZEN LAKE NEAR LENINGRAD (ST. PETERSBURG). OVER FOUR DECADES LATER, IT ...
( Category: World War II March 16,2020 )