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American schools have put history in the closet. I volunteered in two First Grades and a Second Grade for a year. There were NO photos or pictures of Abraham Lincoln so I photocopied only his image off a $5.00 bill to show the kids who he was. On 12/7/1956 our Third Grade Teacher read us an intervi...

Well put my friend well put!

In case anyone should not understand why you would have problems with their statement INFAMOUS I am posting Websters definition of INFAMOUS. A few years ago we had a Hispanic Veteran of the Middle East Wars killed, he was from our area. One of my Hispanic co workers was so upset with the notice of t...

Recently one of our channels had the history of recordings from Thomas Edison to now. During World War Two the Germans had so perfected the use of magnetic tape recording the Allies could not tell a recording from a life feed. Germany was able to use it to throw off the Allies and yet speak to the ...

I was able to answer my own question. There are more links but this link gives a lot of information concerning the gages of the Soviet Railroad and the German gages. Apparently the Russians had rail lines that went back to the Czar and their design and condition was poor. Germany had to build bridg...

Has anyone mention this before, it concerns the use of railroads as a weapon/equipment option? I watched a documentary on the use of railroads by Germany as they advanced into Russia. The Russian rail lines were spread apart more than the standard German rail lines. In the documentary the German Arm...

Greetings Richard, What a wonderful service you have been a part of, may God bless you and your comrades. I had an Uncle Don Wiesel who fought in everything up to D-Day. His wife only knew he died and not much more. A few years ago we had a story in our local newspaper of D-Day and Omaha Beach. The...

Thank you very very much. Yes it was an outstanding way to finish up the series. My father was at at Hickam on 12/7/1941, he lost several long time and close friends that morning, the first one was only a few feet from him. When we married my best man's wife is Japanese and asked my father if that w...

I wasn't sure where to post this, it is a detailed chart of comparison of ranks for the Allied and Axis Forces. It is nicely done and compares from all the ranks from top to bottom of military ranks side by side for easy comparison.

http://ww2db.com/other.php?other_id=23

This site has quite a collection of photos of German Vehicles and weapons in stages of restoration or completely restored. You will find many links to Russian, Japanese, Italian, American, British and other countries weapons and vehicles of World War Two again in stages of restoration or completely...

This link may be of some help. It describes this gun as being used by the Germans after the far of France.

http://www.lovettartillery.com/25mm_SAL ... _1937.html

I could not copy and paste the text but it mentions its' use in North Africa by the German Army.

Always interesting to read about the "winners" being purer than white. - Hans Dear Hans, Allies won but they were not without their own issues. This site docuements the abuses by all the Armies/Navies/Air Forces etc and Governments involved in World War Two. http://members.iinet.net.au/~g...

In the HBO special "Band of Brothers" when the Germans are surrendering a German Commander wants to surrender to an American Officer as is the correct military procedure. When the German Officer surrenders he asks if he might address his troops for the last time and he is granted that opp...

Whilst WWII was indeed a dreadful event for both sides of the equation, not a single race or people were eliminated by its end. On the other hand, find me a full blood Tasmanian aboriginal. - Hans I think I know where you are coming from but in-case someone else missed this there are NO original Ta...

We have an Internationally known and Professionally designed and active Velodrome in our area of Pennsylvania. We get riders from every country that appreciates Track Bicycling Racing. We get them from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and many other former English Colonies and then we get En...