War and Military History
War and Military History encompasses the causes and effects, the courses and actions, the good and the bad, of warlike activities - from the earliest of times to present actions.
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World War 2 ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender by Germany on May 7, 1945 and then the German surrender to the...
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To clear out defensive positions and trench lines.
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I assume your question refers to The United States in our current circumstances, i.e. the War on Terror. I come from the Cold War...
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AnswerEva Hitler. Hitler died in 1945 He hung himself
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December 7, 1941 was the year of Pearl Harbor
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A parachute works by trapping air underneath, but when the air is trapped the pressure increases and some of the air has to...
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Japan lacks many of the natural resources that are the building blocks of a modern industrial nation. They thought that by...
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He was on his flagship, the IJN battleship Nagato in the Japanese home waters.
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Internment is the imprisonment of large groups without any legal process. Nazi concentration camps are imprisonment which would...
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Hershey even produced a chocolate bar that wouldn't melt in the tropics. Whitman survived although much of its product line was...
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Navy basic is held at the Great Lakes, Marines at Parris Island, Airforce is done at Lackland, Texas and the Army has several...
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Yes. Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991 and the US and other countries liberated Kuwait.
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For enemy civilians it would be don't do stuff to them like ummm, rape them or kill them for unneccesary reasons and espacially...
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South Korea.
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Answerthe German army during world war 2
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I'm not sure I understand the question. What type of historical reenactments are you looking for? Pre-1840 or Civil War or War of...
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Try doing a search of US Military equipment. I was in the Army 30 years ago, and I know it has changed. "Junk on a Bunk" is an...
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Just a personal opinion - the F-22 Viper1
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8........ comment:) I don't know what this guy is smoke but it's not 8 it's 5! DUMBAS (r!++3r$ Dont knoww whyy youu said 5 but...
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The Royal Army Ordnance Corps ,along with the Royal Corps of Transport, Army Catering Corps, and the Postal and Courier Service...
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No one survived from the death marches. Everyone involved in the actual marching was sent to another concentration camp where...
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This information is probably found in AR 840-10.
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I read trough David Galula's book: "Pacification in Algeria: 1956-1958". I would also like to read his biography as he certainly...
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As long as the tank can bring its protected firepower, and with the development of powerful and reliable automotive systems,...
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AnswerMustangs, and draft horses,The American saddlebred was greatly loved by the calvary as well as the American Morgan
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A rear guard delays an attacking enemy and withdraws. A "Holding Force", having been stripped of offensive capacity for use...
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Bolton's opinion-Cuba, Libya, Syria Bush's opinion- Iraq, Iran, North Korea
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Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida (Grietje) Zelle in the Netherlands in 1876) was accused by the French of spying for Germany...
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AnswerI played in 7th Army Band in late 1963, all of '64 and through Nov '65 under Maj/CWO4 Arthur W.R. Shettle for the first...
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Timeperiod of the specific war involving American active participation are given in []All formally declared Wars of the United...
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The Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty with Germany in August 1914 against a common Russian enemy.The Ottoman Empire which had...
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AnswerA self-propelled, steerable aircraft.
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France did not attack Fort Presque Isle. The first Fort Presque Isle was built by the French, and burnt by them when they left...
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It dropped two thermonuclear bombs on Japan.
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The music for Taps was designed for the bugle. It replaced the call for extingush lights in the Third Brigade, First Division,...
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No. Basically the members of the Irish Defence Forces, can and did in the past transfer to the Gardai Siochana (Irish Police) and...
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no probley a paraprase, like he triped over his own feet, don,t open a can of worms, don,t stir up the mudd, don,t make waves. ...
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In addition to the loss of its overseas empire, more than 10 percent of its national territory, and its coal and iron fields, the...
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Probably should never have happened, not in search of the Canal, as valuable as it was to commerce and to the US National...
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The Slavic peoples are of Eastern European origin and in Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Croats, Poles, Serbs and Slovenes.
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it was very hard for them having to leave there home and there friends most of the c hildren and woeman wanted to come back and...
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Near the end of the battle, many English had been killed and the remaining army were fearful of the powerful Scots. The fact that...
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Almost every element under the Joint Special Operations Command and the Joint Communications Unit had some form of participation...
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Overrated,massive. The weather on D-Day can be described as gloomy, ugly, and overcast. The title of Cornelius Ryan's book...
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Well, I was looking for an answer, myself... but I'll try to get things started. In Which We Serve, 1942, Noel Coward The Cruel...
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The Berlin Blockade from 24 June 1948 until 11 May of 1949.
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It drew a line in the sand, it was like a chip on the shoulder, it said in no uncertain terms that the introduction of nuclear...
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AnswerOperations carried on by independent or semi-independent forces in the rear of the enemy; these operations usually are...
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AnswerIn 1982 Argentina invaded port Stanley and the british territories of the Falkland island.
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The Enigma encryption device was an off-line system which meant that the operator typed in a plain text message and the machine...
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Robert E. Lee.
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Edward Teller invented it in 1951. He wasn't the only one he was accompanied by others.
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No. See The Virtual Wall site (below) for details. At the time of his death, there was probably little or no knowledge of those...
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While people die violently in The Killing, the title comes from the thought of a financial killing. This film is a choreographed...
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Jerusalem was under British Mandate control until 1947.On November 1947 the Jordanian army together with Arab legion ocupied the...
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Answersome times, but usually as Sgt, regard less of rank, [exceptions] first sgt, or a sgt major, there addressed as first sgt...
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Background: The Mukden Incident of September 18, 1931, known in Japanese as the Manchurian Incident, occurred in southern...
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General Custer.
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The British treated the American Indians harshly compared to the French. The traditional gift giving had been abandoned and...
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because he helped America gain there independence
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Because a Major General use to be refered as a Sergeant Major General which made the Lieutenant General the higher rank.
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He was the strongest super man ever
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If you mean in the 1990's, not really. As in Bosnia and Hercegovina, although both sides in the conflict included ethinically...
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AnswerIt more like what countries did the US join during WWII. When the US officially entered the war in 1941, we joined the...
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The legend goes like this. US Army dress uniform pants are a lighter blue than the coat because of the days of horseback cavalry,...
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Vincent's Stomatitis (Trench mouth) is a painful form of gingivitis which can be caused by inadequate oral hygiene, poor...
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It was the start of the war because the first shot between he british and the colonists was the declare to war. -wow- that was...
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A Pal Battalion was a unit recruited from an area or community with a promise that it would serve together for the duration of...
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Iran, even though there military supplies were limited and had no financial or military backup from any country, they were the...
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1. To serve their Country. 2. Learn a skill. 3. A chance for a better education. 4. To protect freedom.
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Oh, my goodness, yes, the weapons of WW1 worked - far too well. A figure of approximately 40,000,000 casualties should give you...
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AnswerSingapore was considered the Gibralter of the Pacific and was the home of the UK Fleet in the Pacific which was a part of...
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En 1817, surgió una nueva idea en Pampatar, actual ciudad del estado Nueva Esparta, para incorporar siete estrellas en la franja...
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Spain and Fraince found it, but Spain owned it.
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He was not a relation to thre previous king Harold Answer Moreover he was not a descendent of the House of Wessex so he was never...
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the north had technology from the factories and made guns to help them in the war, and the south focused on their farming.
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In Europe the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Britain, El Alemein, Anzio, D-Day, Leningrad, Kursk, Stalingrad, the Battle...
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Richmond, Virginia
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AnswerIt means To honour our soldiers who were in the war.
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August the 9th, 1945..
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people involved where soldiers and other people Mostly British with a large contingent of Australians landed on Gallipoli, near...
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The plane that struck the Empire State Building was a B-25 Mitchell bomber. It struck the building on July 28, 1945. The tragedy...
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He called them Aryan, though this is not totally incorrect as they are related to the ancient Indo-Aryans, a branch of the...
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A whole lot of money. You need to pay the soilders, get supplies, and still be able to support your own countryand sooo much more.
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He changed the way the colonies were governed He forced the colonists to keep his troops in their houses He has not passed laws...
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Sinking the largest and newest Japanese Battleship on 7 April 1945 was an all aviation endeavor and marked the end of the...
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Al Smith.
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This generally refers to the 8mm Hotchkiss M-1915 which switched the weapon from a 30 round strip of ammunition to a 249...
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It was caused by constant immersion, unsanitary conditions and the inability to regulary change your footware.
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Yes, Tostig was born the third child of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Kent. Harold was Godwin's eldest son.
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The United States Air Force's birthday is September 18, 1947. It did not exist before this date. In 1943 it would have been...
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