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Not from the German perspective, but a quick and easy link is the US Army's official history: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/index.html including a quite detailed map of the AUDOVILLE-LA-HUBERT area: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/maps/USA-E-XChannel-3.jpg It ...

This is a problem fraught issue. 9/11 prompted a determined but it now appears ultimately unsuccessful widespread international effort to define terrorism. For an excellent summary, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_(definitions_of) Having said that, I would argue that current usage (note, ...

Canadian military records and artifacts reside in various places. The Canadian Forces themselves have a small organization called the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH - formerly known as the Directorate of History or DHist, a designation which you still see in notations). http://www.cmp-cpm....

The seminal work in the field:

Shelford Bidwell & Dominick Graham, Fire Power: British Army Weapons And Theories Of War, 1904-1945

Okay, just at the moment (as I sit here on Christmas leave sipping coffee), can't lay my hands on what I was thinking of, but offer this: for a WWII Inf Bde (Brit model, based upon WE II/141/2): Main HQ: - Comd, personal staff - Ops staff (Brigade Major, Into O, a few others) - 3 x Liaison Officers ...

Cristoph, Well informed as always. I understand the KStN, but could I ask you how they laid-down that organization into forward and rear HQ etc? Obviously, it would depend largely upon the situation (and in fact, how to lay this down was one of the critical command decisions a commander had to make)...

Here's a deeper question I've always wondered about, and never seen anything on -- how did the Germans' organize the echeloning of their HQ? Did they echelon them at all? What I mean is this: in British/Commonwealth practice, there would actually be up to no less than FOUR DIFFERENT headquarters for...

A large part of the RAF buget was spent on frills instead of necessities such as training, designing aircraft,etc.A lot of money was spent on fancy officers messes and there guest nites ,to me trying to look like army regimental mess' of a hundred year old regiment. Okay, there's a clear, specific ...

Rodger, not sure what you mean. The RAF *WAS* like the [Brit] Army -- 0fficers' messes and what not. Still is for that matter. What's your point?

Quick question -- can anyone comment upon the correct pronunciation of Freddie de Guingand's name? I mean, of course, Major-General Sir Francis de Guingand, Monty's chief of staff, and the author of, amongst other works, Operation Victory (London: Hodder 1947). Duh Gwinjj-and? Duh Gwin-Gand? Somethi...

Roger, Well, yes and no. A few responses I would make: When the RAF was formed the pilots were to be the elite of the air service, so they were given all the staff jobs. I would suggest that it's misleading to try and describe pilots as meant as the "elite" of the RAF. In one sense this is true -- t...

Matt,

Straight off the top of my head I can tell you that "trooper" is simply the term in cavalry regiments (in British and Commonwealth Armies) for private. As such, he could have been a driver, gunner, radio operator or loader.

Always start with the official histories, many of which are available in their entirety on-line.

See http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ETO/Central/index.html

Don't have any stats to offer on Firefly accuracy per se, but in a related angle -- I do know that they had issues with smoke and dust raised by the concussion of firing obscuring observation of the target after firing. This made it difficult to impossible to adjust fire, which [indirectly] has the ...

How much effort did the Allies [Anglo-American and Soviet] put into guerrilla warfare behind Axis lines? Now, Churchill did famously call for SOE to "set Europe ablaze", and they were subsequently joined in due course by the OSS, and those organizations did indeed work behind the lines with resistan...