The French relied on America for logistical support after the Normandy invasion. From pork free rations for Muslim soldiers to French-English dictionaries. Americans were bringing …
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The Schü-mine 42 (Shoe-mine), or Schützenmine 42, was a German manufactured anti-personnel mine used during World War II. It was a wooden box with a …
The Allied casualties in the Italian campaign was 312,000 after 6088 days of fighting. Of those casualties, 23,501 were killed. German loses were put …
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These are all air guns, powered by pressured air- and they are used to vaccinate all day long.
Smallpox ravaged Colonial America. Half of the 10,000 continental soldiers fell ill with it. And it decimated Native American populations. John Adams wrote, “The smallpox …
The Army Fights Viruses Too. Read More »
Why Combat Boots? Natalie Hayes Writer’s comment: My roommates, Deborah and Mondana, asked why I would write an essay on combat boots. I am not …
Found This Amazing Lecture About The Culture of Army Boots. Read More »
From “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)” by Rick Atkinson. “Another …
One of the ideas for keeping Operation Overlord a secret even during the invasion was to have paratroopers communicate with clicker, so Germans would not …
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This is sold out but amazingly these are still around. I found these on International Military Antiques, wherever found many wonders. These were improved …
From Rick Atkinson’s Day of Battle. “Ships wallowed like treasure laden galleons on the Spanish Main. The American convoys alone carried more than …
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A picture has popped-up online showing the latest variant of the Army’s M1 Abrams tank with what appears to be a new armor package …
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Daily requirements for each soldier who invaded Normandy: 33.3 pounds of gas, and oil, grease and airplane fuel. Each man needed 8 pounds of ammunition …
The Red Ball Express. Provisioning The Army. And More Amazing Numbers Read More »
From Rick Atkinson’s The Guns At Last Light, SHAEF by midsummer had already tripled in size from 1500 Allied officers and men originally envisioned …
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Read More »
On the way to Normandy, the British were more than generous, adding to the US food allotment 240,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 2.4 million …
The saying in England was that the problem with Americans is that they are “over sexed, overfed and over here.” My father served …
This book is brilliant as it paints pictures we rarely imagine. He talks about immensely altered landscape of Europe in the last year of …
As a citizen, Grant failed at perhaps every single endeavor. He failed as a leather worker, as a salesman, and he fell prey to the …
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