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Another one. Close up of my room-mate's pistol and some of his personal kit. http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/386/0816germanpistolmk9.th.jpg Regards the German beer tent I posted picture of earlier -- NATO has ordered all temporary structures within the compound replaced by permanent buildings, so...

Do I recall correctly? I guess not. See also http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/nummernschilder/licensemain.htm I do have a little annecdote about this though. When I was a (younger) man posted in Germany, I kept a list of all the license plate abbreviations in my glove compartment just for fun. One d...

Here's another shot I just took today. http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9753/0814germanjeepcc2.th.jpg What made me take this one is the license plate. As I recall, Reichsheer and then Wehrmacht license plates were prefaced with a "Y", and as you can see they still are today. Do I recall co...

That seems to have worked. (Finally.)
Okay, I will have to add some more.
Wait out.

All right, I'm trying out this image posting thing. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7057/0731germansht6.th.jpg Above is a shot of the interior of the ISAF HQ compound. On the left are two (visiting) German staff officers (note the one carrying a briefcase). On the right are some German troops from ...

Sorry for lack of posts ... busy. Last night, however, I had a chance to sit down at the end of the day and enjoy a good (German) beer at the German tent. A couple of them just got promoted and they had bought free rounds. I sat there practicing my (rudimentary) German with my room-mate and one of m...

I have just gotten to Kabul, where I am currently serving at ISAF Headquarters, which as many of you probably know NATO has taken over responsibility for. (See their website at http://www.afnorth.nato.int/ISAF/index.htm ) Anyway, turns out I have a German room-mate here. (Germany provides a sizeable...

But its not coincidence that Keitel got the job (and Rundstedt was relieved of his). "submitt[ing] to many of Hitler's inane military decisions" was an explicit qualification for the job.

What scale is it?

British Airborne troops were given specific tactical objectives like the Orne Bridges etc.,....whereas the American 101st and 82nd Airborne were used in a "spoiling" role Well, no, that's not correct, at least in terms of intent. Both sets of Airborne forces were given more-or-less equall...

Taylor Collector wrote:I only say Rommel because of his opinion of the Nazi's.

Which opinion of his about the Nazi's? When towards the end he thought they were losing the war or earlier on when he used his connections with the Nazis to get command of a panzer division?

There was NO mechanism in place [in Weimer Germany] for calling up, training, dressing, feeding let alone arming any enthusiatic volunteers. Well .... how true is that? One of the things scholarly trolling through all of the German archives has made clear is that right from the early 1920s (ie well...

As a point of social historical study, what was the understanding of the name "Ni##er" circa WWII in British society? I am given to understand that when the dog was named, it was not after the sense of refering to an African-American. Gibson may not even have been aware of that sense of th...

Reb wrote:... the absolute inability of any sane person to understand the Empire's military.

Reb,

I've always maintained that our Commonwealth military traditions are a fiendishly elaborate deception plan, intended to confuse any and all outsiders.

Cheers,

Commonwealth military contributions/cooperation was, as various posters have described, a complex subject. Speaking for my own country, Canada maintained two of what might be called "national representative" headquarters in London -- one for the Canadian Army (CMHQ, mentioned by Martin Sch...