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  • 76 mm Divisional Gun M1939 (F-22 USV)

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 09:00

    In Mar 1937, the Russian Army issued a requirement for a field gun that would replace the unsatisfactory 76-millimeter field gun that had been in service only since the previous year. V. G. Grabin, the designer of the original gun, despite complaint...

  • US Navy Report of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor, Enclosure E, USS Pyro

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 09:02

    AE1/A16/(0233)U.S.S. Pyro Pearl Harbor, T.H.,December 10, 1941.To: Commanding Officer.From: ...

  • Potsdam Declaration

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 09:00

    We-the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of the Republic of China, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be g...

  • Vernon Sturdee

    Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 09:00

    Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee was the son of a medical practitioner, born in Frankston, Victoria, Australia at the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century. In 1911 Vernon Sturdee joined the Royal Australian Engineers, receiving the rank...

  • Voroshilov

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 09:00

    Light cruiser Voroshilov was assigned to the Black Sea Fleet in mid-1940. Between 14 and 20 Jun 1941, she participated in fleet maneuvers. On 23 Jun, after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union began, she shelled Constanza, Romania with other ships...

  • Kirov

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 09:00

    Kirov was the lead ship of her class of light cruiser initially requested in 1933. Envisioned to be a light cruiser equipped with heavy armament (180-millimeter guns) while possessing high speed (top speed of 37 to 38 knots), the joint-venture with ...

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5 stars Russ Miller

I am trying to find information on a documentary showed some years ago on the Military Channel of World War II. The TV documentary showed a soldier carrying another soldier out of a forest. The soldier being carried out could have been my brother Roger. I would appreciate any information I can get on how to obtain this documentary. Russ

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Excellent - I don't know where you find the time to impart al this knowledge!

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Good blog on world war 2 - keep up the good work Peter.

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