....in the Pacific theatre of war. A nice site with summaries of Australian armoured units and activities:...
Unfortunately, Hitler's comment "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?", still applies today to many groups persecuted...
Australian women have played their parts in conflicts going back to the Boer War. This site examines their roles in that and subsequent conflicts....
The story of Vivian Bullwinkle is remarkable: http://www.awm.gov.au/people/1906.asp http://www.awm.gov.au/fiftyaustralians/5.asp As is the...
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Source: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18790051&BRD=2303&PAG=461&dept_id=478976&rfi=6 Holocaust Survivor Will Recall Treblinka Escape...
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/235944.html Japan's view of history skewed by post-WWII attitudes: scholar...
Google videos has a number of news reports produced by United News during the war. Most, obviously, concentrate on the US war effort:...
A new exhibition has opened in Poland entitled "Banished from Warsaw in 1944 - the Plight of Children". The website includes testimonies and...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2170159,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub - USSR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Nikitovich_Kozhedub Two Orders of Lenin Seven Orders of the Red Banner...
Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin - USSR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanovich_Pokryshkin Three Hero of the Soviet Union golden stars Four...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6999601.stm
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Ever wondered why Spitfires marks had letters after them, e.g. Spitfire Vb? From " 2nd TAF Spifire: The Story of Spifire ML407"
Yes we have but stick'em in - I hang my head in shame and admit that I forgot to add them when posting earlier. Do you happen to know anything about...
Taking just Military Awards he pips Malcolm David Wanklyn (RN) by a DFC.
What i always understood the Wansee Conference to be was the gathering of the many organisations and agencies in one place for the first and only...
To help people along, maybe a read of the Wansee Conference Protocol would be worthwhile first: http://www.ghwk.de/engl/protengl.htm .
The Doctors' Trial documents make for grim reading: http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/
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