war, Ernie and Harry. It tells the story of the Italian Contadini, brave families who risked everything to aid and shelter fugitives whilst under German occupation during the second world war. The film is based on the director's great grandfather and his experiences as an escaped POW in ...
but also larger ships like monitors, generally in that case to blast apart riverine defensive obstructions, in particular in the James River. The Confederacy used them liberally, and devised clever vessels for such operations, theCSS Davidfrom Rear Admiral Dahlgren, and HL Hunley, generally regarde...
led the survey team, whose discovery finally resolves the question of how one of Britain's most successful WW2 submarines was lost. The search team consisted of maritime archaeology staff and students from the University of Malta, robotics students from Harvey Mudd College in the USA, and a num...
Robert Macfie was a visionary who first pressed the use of tracks to the Landships Committee at a time when ‘big-wheel’ machines were seen as the solution to the problems on the Western Front, namely barbed wire and…
ww2dbaseOn 3 Jul, French ships in Plymouth and Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom were boarded and captured. Among these ships was the French submarine Surcouf (the largest submarine in the world at the time), four other submarines, old battleships Paris and Courbet, destroyers Triomphant and...
We were then transferred back to Bombay where the unit was disbanded with, so far as I know all being appointed to ships Royal Marines 94 Amphibious Support Regiment Regiment consisted of RM,RA,RAC and REME personnel destined to spearhead Operation 'ZIPPER' the intended invasion of Malaya. ...
接近一百万人死亡,超过两百万人受伤 • What’s more, about 70% of the merchant ships were sunk or damaged. 70%的商船被击沉或损坏 • As a result, Britain lost the sea supremacy 英国失去了海上霸权地位 • Then, Britain was in a huge national debt, ten times larger than that of pre-...
but the Left does like the idea of blaming White people. The fact that most Asians in America have been through slavery relatively recently, or plantation labor, or both - and some of them were then dispossessed entirely in WW2, but they do not suffer the same poor outcomes, tends to sug...
接近一百万人死亡,超过两百万人受伤 What’s more, about 70% of the merchant ships were sunk or damaged. 70%的商船被击沉或损坏 As a result, Britain lost the sea supremacy 英国失去了海上霸权地位 Then, Britain was in a huge national debt, ten times larger than that of pre-war years. The...