That being said, I definitely want to have the faction so I can swap them into battles in North Africa and the Eastern Front (everyone forgets about the Italian 8th Army). In terms of actual Italian Campaign maps besides Monte Cassino, I was always fond of BF1942's Operation...
OR - Orderly Room; or Other Ranks (Often mistakenly taken to mean Ordinary Ranks); Orbat –Order of Battle ORB - Operations Record Book ORS - Operational Research Section ORTU - Operational & Refresher Training Unit ORV - Objective Rendezvous OS - Observers School; or Ordinary Seaman (Navy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_L._Tinker Major General Clarence Leonard Tinker (21 November 1887 – 7 June 1942) (Osage) was a career United States Army officer, the highest ranking Native-American officer and the first to reach that rank.[1] During World War II, he had been as...
American Hospitals now used penicillin to treat soldiers with gas gangrene and other life-threatening infections, and in September 1944, began experimenting with application of penicillin during initial surgical treatment of the wounds of Eighth Army Air Force battle casualties, in order to determine if...
Through Durban came Commonwealth soldiers and airmen en route from New Zealand, Australia and training bases throughout South Africa and Rhodesia bound for Europe and points far to the east; American servicemen bound for the jungles of Papua New Guinea, Buna and Gona; wounded soldiers on hospital...
While in Hagley, England, a full time training schedule functioned for all ranks. Technical medical handling of patients was the main subject of instruction to the Enlisted Men. During its stay in England, Training Films, Film Strips, and Training Aids were used in Aircraft Identification. Road...
Re-enacting the Sino-Japanese War:History can be studied in many ways. One of the most direct routes to a visceral feel for what happened to earlier generations is to join the growing ranks of …Continue Reading → Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Jan 14 – 20, 1943 ...
Ranks & Decorations AC2 ACom AFC AFM BEM CBE CGM DCM DFC DFM DSO F/Lt F/O F/Sgt G/Cpt KIA LAC MIA OBE P/O POW S/Ldr Sgt W/Cdr W/O WIA Remembering Cy Grant Remembering Cy Grant, obituary by Kurt Barling Blue Plaque commemorating Cy Grant unveiled in Highgate, 10 November 2017 ...
the following year he won a gold medal in the 800 m at the Central American Games in Panama. In Helsinki 1952 he was part of the historic team setting the world record while capturing the gold in 4 x 400 m relay. He also won silver in 800 m, again coming second to Mal Whitfield....
Of all foreigners in the ranks of the German Wehrmacht during WWII, British and Commonwealth troops were by far one of the most obscure groups to be found...