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I just watched a program on the GIs, who were at the Berga concentration camp. I certainly knew of it, but to see/hear men who survived it. Wow.
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The Air Force with its Gripen’s is signalling the coming of Christmas in the skies over Sweden.
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Database suggestion for tracking military deaths?
My mother’s uncle died in Ardennes, but his bithdate is lost to time. The fact that he was a Robert Smith doesn’t make it any easier to find out the info.
My mother’s uncle died in Ardennes, but his bithdate is lost to time. The fact that he was a Robert Smith doesn’t make it any easier to find out the info.
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Maybe this, if you know his unit and middle name
https://abmc.gov/search/node
https://abmc.gov/search/node
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Thanks
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One of the big military personnel records' archives had a big fire back in the 70s, and a lot of the WW2 files were lost.
That being said, you may be able to request his records as a direct family member.
That being said, you may be able to request his records as a direct family member.
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If you need a 10,000th reminder that it was a good thing for the US to enter the war in Europe, watch “The Grey Zone” (2001). Good lord.
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Currently reading a book on the Habsburg Empire and the author just described their main military commander during the war of Austrian succession as having more than ordinary incompetence, which given the history of Austro-Hungarian leadership must say something about how god-awful this guy must have been.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... mass-grave
The remains of second world war sailors who died on British and Dutch warships in the Java sea were secretly dumped in an anonymous mass grave by modern-day metal scavengers as they rifled through wrecks illegally lifted from the sea bed, it has been claimed.
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Cool story about a C-47 that particpated in the D-Day airborne invasion was salvaged from a boneyard, and hopes to fly over Normandy in 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/d ... &smtyp=cur
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/d ... &smtyp=cur
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Fitness Tracker Data Highlights Sprawling U.S. Military Footprint In Africa
Is this geotagged-photos-on-social-media-providing-targeting-coordinates-for-mortar-attacks redux?Out in the cocoa-colored wastes of north-central Niger, people have been running around in circles. Exactly who has been jogging or walking around this compound outside the town of Arlit is unclear. But there’s a good chance it has something to do with U.S. Africa Command’s “Analysis Office” there, the existence of which was disclosed in 2016 contracting documents.
Not far away, people have been running round and round in a compound near the airfield in Agadez, Niger, where the U.S. military is building a $100 million drone base. There has also been a significant amount of movement going on around the airport in Gao, Mali, where the U.S. military established an outpost in the early 2010s. And Garoua, Cameroon, the site of a U.S. drone base, is also aglow with the digital evidence of many past runs, according to an online interactive map that shows the routes of people who use fitness devices, such as Fitbit.
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About time they got back in the carrier game.
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It's a humongous capital investment for them. It took eight years to build, but the thing cost something like 10% of their annual defense budget.
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A non-nuclear aircraft carrier? Is this WWII? Thanks for trying GB, better luck next time.
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Yes, that is a major eyebrow raiser for me.A non-nuclear aircraft carrier? Is this WWII? Thanks for trying GB, better luck next time.
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I don't think the Royal Navy has any nuke-powered surface ships.
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Not much of a Navy then.
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Pilot is about to flip the wing of a v1 in order to knock the gyroscope off balance and stop the flying bomb reaching its London target
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That's spectacular.
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Wow, I knew they did that but never saw a picture of it. Wouldn't it have been easier to shoot it down?
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V-1's, the original drone warfare
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The first thing that comes to mind is the Spit might be out of ammo. I've also read that if the aircraft were at zero range of its guns, it would be within the blast radius of the device. But I don't know if that's true or not.Wow, I knew they did that but never saw a picture of it. Wouldn't it have been easier to shoot it down?
One other possibility: If they dork up the gyroscope, it might send the thing pretty much into a nose dive. If they shoot it down, they may disable it without destroying it, and therefore have no idea where the thing will come down.
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https://t.co/CklM7sbAH5NAVY INVESTIGATION: Fox News reported that three midshipmen have said that three classmates are accused of selling cocaine, LSD and the sedative ketamine bought on the dark web using the digital currency bitcoin.
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