More World War II Numbers
World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd, 1945. That made it six years and a day long. It involved sixty nations …
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Yalta
The conference at Yalta was a chance for the inheritors of power after World War II to decide how to govern. It was obviously one …
Paris, After The Liberation.
When Paris was liberated it was a broken city. No gas, no power, no light, streets filled with thieves. There was a soap and …
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Odd World War II Facts.
More than 1000 V-1 and V-2 Rockets would landed on British soil. The V-2 almost exclusively impacted in London and on the Belgian capitol. …
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The Run-Up to the Capture of Strasbourg.
Jean De Lattre De Tasingny, French General of the 1st Army 82nd Airborne Division and French Resistance Fighters in France in 1944 The …
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US Supplied The French After Normandy
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 Shoe Mine.
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 …
Statistics From the Italian Campaign
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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Guns The Army Uses To Kill Viruses.
These are all air guns, powered by pressured air- and they are used to vaccinate all day long.
The Army Fights Viruses Too.
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 …
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Found This Amazing Lecture About The Culture of Army Boots.
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 …
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Of Rape and War
From “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)” by Rick Atkinson. “Another …
Original D-Day Cricket Clickers
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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The Original United States World War II Official US Army 6 X 30 Binoculars with an M17 Leather Case
This is sold out but amazingly these are still around. I found these on International Military Antiques, wherever found many wonders. These were improved …
The Amazing Cluster That Invading Sicily Became
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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The M1A3 SEPv3 Abrams Tank Upgrade Photos
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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The Red Ball Express. Provisioning The Army. And More Amazing Numbers
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 …
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