British Eighth Army North Africa 1940-43 Key Uniform Guides No. 3 Robin Adair 1974 From D-Day to Ve-DayThe British Soldier No. Volume 2 Jean Bouchery The World War II TommyBritish Army Uniforms, European Theatre 1939-45 in Colour Ph... ...
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father Nikola Miletic born in Kolasin Yugoslav on the 6th Dec 1909, he served in the army from 1939 Soldier in Chetniks (Yugoslav Army) supporting the Germans until 1941 when I think he was involved in the exiling of King Peter to London and was later seen in a British Army uniform ...
WW2 Royal Navy Uniform? By SFC,July 1, 2024 The Air Force For general discussions on the Air Forces of the UK, British Empire and Commonwealth, including specific aircraft, squadrons, bases and people. 101 posts This Popped Up on my FB Feed. Had to Share 😁 ...
M Berlemont’s son Gaston, meanwhile, had succeeded his father in running the pub many years earlier – there’s a story that when he walked into the pub after World War II, still dressed in his uniform, his father handed over the keys and left him to it. A well-loved Soho identity...
ATSEnglishAcronym for "Auxiliary Territorial Service", which was a branch of the British Army in World War II consisted of women. BackbordGermanBackbord is the nautical term that refers to the left side of a ship, as perceived by a person facing towards the bow, or, the front of the sh...
(OSS)prisoners of warduring the Allied campaign inItalyin March 1944. The commandos were in uniform and thus should have been afforded the protections of the GenevaConventions, but German Gen. Anton Dostler ordered that they be summarily shot. After the war, Dostler was tried forwar crimesand...
George Patton, U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theaters during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks.
Office of War Information. The OWI arranged for her separation from the WAAF and her induction — as a major, though without uniform — into the U.S. Army. The framing facts of Settle’s story — her marriage, her son, her escape into the OWI — are missing from All the Brave ...
It functionally lost its self-proclaimed Global War on Terror and it keeps losing in its febrile quest for superiority everywhere. If we met a person dressed in a military uniform who insisted he was Napoleon, boasted that his Imperial Guard was the world’s best, and that he could rule ...