World War II
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Robinson

The Allied rearguard at Larissa, 18–19 April 1941. As the firefight continued, four New Zealand Bren gun carriers attempted to force the roadblock as Lieutenant Johnson observed: ‘Upon proceeding 100 ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-12 | Author:Richard Hargreaves

Notes 1.Gleiss, vii, p.728. 2.TB Oven 1/2/45, 3/2/45. 3.Schörner’s leadership is based on BA-MA RL7/531, TB Goebbels, 9/3/45, Kaltenegger, Schörner, p.278, and Kunz, p.220. 4.Ahlfen, pp.54-6. 5.Echolot, iii, pp.803-4. 6.Echolot, ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Tom Nagorski

THE LAST LIFEBOAT WAS FOUND just before seven. By now William Forsyth had buried more than twenty people on the water, most of them children. They had left the City ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

British officers inspect a German Pzkw-IV knocked out in France in June 1944 by the Durham Light Infantry. The Allies had also been developing lethality improvement programs of their own; ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sönke Neitzel & Harald Welzer [Neitzel, Sönke and Welzer, Harald]

Ideology THÖNE: I expect you have heard about the treatment of the Jews in RUSSIA. In POLAND the Jews got off comparatively lightly. There are still Jews in POLAND living ...
( Category: Engineering March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Burt, Ron [Burt, Ron]

USS OMMANEY BAY (CVE-79), Thursday, January 4, 1945, on fire, as seen from USS STEAMER BAY (CVE-87). National Archives. USS OMMANEY BAY (CVE-79). At 1814 hours, Thursday, January 4, 1945, ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:George Forty

Capt (later Maj, MC) G.J. Dean commanded C Sqn 6RTR in 1941. Sgt Jack Hawken remembers: ‘Dean was a superb squadron commander and was a real “hands on” man. Once ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Klingaman, William K.

* * * “At night, when we get back to our prefabricated home,” wrote S. J. Perelman from southern California, “we just about have strength to pick up the evening ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Tony Le Tissier [Tissier, Tony Le]

In fact, as we know, Wenck’s army had yet to make a start and Steiner’s seven battalions had already been routed. Late that evening Hitler made some command decisions that ...
( Category: Engineering March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Dave McComb

One of the most famous photographs taken during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 shows Shaw’s forward magazine exploding. She, Cassin, and Downes were all in dry ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Mallmann Showell, Jak P.;

9. The British Western Approaches had its headquarters in Liverpool and after the war many years passed before it became known that the Admiralty also had a highly significant Operational ...
( Category: World War II March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-12 | Author:Lee Windsor

Two Hussars on leave after the liberation of Rome, summer 1944. Vern Pearson Collection, PANB By now, the New Brunswick Hussars were itching to join their infantry brothers in action ...
( Category: World War II March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Rottman

Student Recon. Team members of the MACV Recondo School off-load from a UH-1H ‘Huey’ during their three-day graduation patrol on Hon Tra Island, Bay of Nha Trang, Dec. 1969. They ...
( Category: Military Technology March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Phoebus Athanassiou & Peter Dennis

Although blemished by a crease to the original print, this studio portrait of a young Alpino shows the M33 uniform clearly; it is remarkable for the exaggeratedly bouffant cut of ...
( Category: World War II March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert L Scott [Scott, Robert L]

I think most of the ammunition had been fired at us while we circled at sixteen thousand feet, for we were the whole show now. We'd rake the steel decks ...
( Category: World War II March 13,2020 )