Melisende
Excellent - I don't know where you find the time to impart al this knowledge!
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World War II Database
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The World War II Database has it all: Event Summaries, Book Reviews, Participant Profiles, detailed specs on ships and aircraft, and 3600+ photos.
- Added on: Jul 31st, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: C. Peter Chen
- Listed in: History Education
- Tags: World War II ww2 normandy battleship iwo jima pearl harbor
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76 mm Divisional Gun M1939 (F-22 USV)
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
AE1/A16/(0233)U.S.S. Pyro Pearl Harbor, T.H.,December 10, 1941.To: Commanding Officer.From: ...
Potsdam Declaration
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
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
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
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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Ollie
Good blog on world war 2 - keep up the good work Peter.
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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