GEORGES 'THE TIGER' CLEMENCEAU 1841-1929 After working as a doctor, teacher and journalist, Clemenceau entered politics as Mayor of Montmartre in...
There are many many quotes ... but this one is a poignant one I think ! :( It was in despair that the French General Charles Mangin wrote -...
Has anybody ever heard this story ?? I have a recollection of an account I read years back of a small contingent of men from a tiny village...
Have you tried to get his service records Jerome ? .... his enlistment is here ! NARA - AAD - Display Full Records - Electronic Army Serial Number...
Faced with an effective British blockade, fierce resistance from the British and French Armies, the entrance of the United States Army, political...
Oh wait ! .... it looks like it was for the D-Day landings !! Hebridean Connections Annie
Was this for one of those secret missions ? ... I've never heard of it before !! In 1942, in response to an Admiralty call for volunteers to be...
The air battle .......... http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/airplane%20at%20war/italian_front.htm Annie :)
I think it's my turn isn't it ?? :rolleyes: ( Easy Peasy for a change !! ) After serving in the First Peking Relief Expedition and the Boxer...
Well I must have been walking around with my eyes closed ... 'cos I've never seen it before !! :rolleyes:
It took me by surprise because I'd never seen it before .... but I bet you're right Phil !! :D ( Then I thought I'd better ask !! :rolleyes: )
Most are American - though I'm sorry to say that even the British Government got in there !! :D:D Famous people say the darndest things!!...
This article by O'Brien Browne really brings home the horrors of this battle .... terrible !!:( Although by the middle of December 1916 the French...
Don't know if you guys have seen this site ... lots of British and Australian Air Force information on here ! JACK EDWARD GIBBS - 1942 - RCAF -...
Sergeant Henry Johnson, 369th Infantry ("Harlem Hellfighters") who single-handedly fought off a german raiding party to save his comrade Private...
ARGONNE-VIENNE-LA-VILLE 16 Division May 16, 1918 Order No. 697 General Gallais Cdt of the 16:DI cites to the order of the Division the soldiers...
Makes your heart lurch at the destruction ........ ! Erwin Biesenbach kept all these military archive and private photos for many decades. A lot...
Casualties The Russian casualties in the First World War are difficult to estimate, due to poor quality of available statistics. Some official...
At the outbreak of the war, Czar Nicholas II appointed his cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas as commander in chief. Although not without ability, the Grand...
The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and, primarily, Eastern Europe. The term is in contrast to the Western Front....
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