The Fairburn-Sykes Fighting System.
The Fairburn- Sykes Fighting Knife is pointed dagger also called a poignard, and it has a Fencing foil grip developed by Bill Fairburn and …
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WWII
This is a series of articles, discoveries, strategies, tactics, weapons, policies, personalities, formations and battles of the Second World War.
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 …
After World War II, Germany Was Ravaged.
Germans could see the writing on the wall. They had least holdings and alliances in Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and half of …
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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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Incendiary Behavior
T 1 Monroe Leaflet Bomb British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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Incendiary Behavior
RAF Pummels Essen With Incendiaries British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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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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London During WWII
1945 England was a deprecated mess. Rubble in the streets. Bombed out architecture with no time to repair, rats over taking the sewer system. …
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Ike and Monty
Eisenhower came to believe that Bernard Montgomery is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with and an impossible man to …
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 …
England in 1945, Was Barely Holding On.
The Squander Bug. A Character Created by British Authorities to Remind Brits to Save Everything. Like Smokey the Bear, Except For Recycling. 1945 England …
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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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US WWII War Production From Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle
“By now the American war machine had become the “prodigy of organization so admired by Churchill and so dreaded by German commanders. U.S. Production …
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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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