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- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:51 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Japan endeavours to flight to Europe, 1941-1945
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2117
Re: Japan endeavours to flight to Europe, 1941-1945
Hello Gentlemen, I knew there was at least an endeavour, by the Japanese, to sent an aircraft from Far East to Europe during the war by that it failed. Do you know anything about this episode or other similar attemps? Thank you EC There were several successful trips made by Italian aircraft with It...
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:48 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Pictures of Japanese volunteers and other asiatic soldiers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3840
There is a picture of Oberjunker Wego Chiang Wei-Kuo, son of Chinese NAtionalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek, serving in a Heer Gebirgsdivision.. He served during the Austrian Anschluss in 1938 but return home to China in 1939. In the 80s, he was the commander of Taiwan's panzer troops and Chiang Wei-Kuo...
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:44 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Spanish volunteers in Holland/ Operation Market Garden???
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2363
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:41 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Final defence of Berlin
- Replies: 97
- Views: 56126
Coming back to the foreign volunteers fighting for the defense of Berlin, to my knowledge a) 350+ Frenchmen from the former Charlemagne Division (commanded by Brigadefuehrer Gustav Krukenberg and led by Hstuf Fenet) b) 80+ Latvians from the 15th SS Fusilier Company (Latvian) commanded by Ostuf Neila...
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:28 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: May 9, 45: Free French and French Waffen SS
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10192
Re: May 9, 45: Free French and French Waffen SS
Early May 1945, somewhere in Southern Germany, 12 French from the 33 Waffen SS Grenadier Division “Charlemagne” surrendered to US troops. A bit puzzled about what to do with them, the Americans transferred those POW to a unit of the Free French 2nd Armored Division that passed by there. Being puzzl...
- Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:36 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: SS-Division Charlemagne
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10066