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This will start you off- I believe most German records, Army anyway, are at the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv at Freiburg am Breisgau. Other records- SS and Luftwaffe- may be elsewhere; the more informed members can fill you in and it'll be a good summary for everyone. Microfilmed copies of all capture...

I bet any American veteran would be interested in how our government is NOT honoring its obligation to veterans unless Congress finds out and mandates it. This is from an article on the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain's past investigative reporting. "In March 2005, Knight Ridder reporters Chris A...

A few late notes on this thread: Volume 7 of Bradley (tnru LU) has been out for a while- it's volume 8 that's in process of being printed. Madej in his volume "German Army Order of Battle: Field Army and Officer Corps" gives most of the commanders, but only in the Infantry divisions and ma...

This seems to be the most appropriate place to post this request. Is there any Forum member who has this microfilm and would consider loaning it? I've found out interlibrary loan can't get NARA microfilms. This is paert of the German Field Commands-Army Groups.

Thanks, Nigel. That's pretty interesting. FAW leads us into some great acronyms WW2 gave us like SNAFU, GROFAZ.....maybe this will start a list of memorable ones.

I think it's a pretty neat, unique slang name though- can't think of one like that in the US forces in WW2- or any come to think of it.

There's a nickname I hadn't heard before- Topcrab. Is that a codeword for the RAF CofS? As for Mountbatten, it always amazews me that he got where he got without any qualification I can see but royal relations. He was a naval officer who lost two successive ships, and then suddenly he's a flag offic...

But Mountbatten was related to royalty don't you know. Merde.

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Try reading 'The Right of the Line' by John Terraine for more on this and the whole RAF story of the Second World War. For American readers' info, it was published in the U.S. as "A Time for Courage". I wish they wouldn't retitle British books as it confuses anyone who wants to obtain them.

You might be interested to know that Churchill considered himself a Zionist. He was a supporter of a Jewish home in Palestine and close friend of Chaim Weisman. Just finished four volumes of biographies on him (two of Manchester's to 1940 and then Gilbert's last two).

You know, that's a real good question. My father's family's past is kinda murky- initial investigations by others say Ireland- I find one mention of County Donegal (now Ulster) for one ancestor in what I have but I never went into geneaology myself- that was my dad's thing and unfortunately he's dea...

search me, Sid. Anyway, I have an Irish name but maybe I should be investigated too. You never know.

really,Beppo- like they're underground with Anne Frank or something

You may be right on that, as I said Jews tend to be in any endeavor requiring brainpower, higher education and culture because as a group they tend to be very well educated. But again as I said, the media are just servants of the oligarchy, not the masters. Its influence is wat's dangerous. If both ...

so why are you making the point that three of those media conglomerates are apparently run by Jews?