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  1. battleearl Well-Known Member

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    A bar in Munich. Apparently, it's the same bar where the Nazis planned their failed coup in 1923 and where Hitler escaped an assassination attempt in 1939.
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    During WW2 Brits decimated 4th largest navy on the planet in 9 minutes: The French navy
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    This is an old post, but one of the Russians who fought in France included Rodion Malinovsky, who defeated the Germans in Stalingrad, captured Machuria, and helped make the USSR a great military superpower.
    His career stemming from WW1, of course.
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    That guy must have been one though son of bitch
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    Russian Empire
    Awards of the USSR
    Foreign Awards
    • Order of the People's Hero(Yugoslavia, 27 May 1964) - a highly professional command of the troops, and heroism in the struggle against the common enemy, for his merits in the development and strengthening of friendly relations between the armed forces of the USSR and the armed forces of Yugoslavia
    • Order of Partisan Star, 1st class (Yugoslavia, 1956)
    • Order of Sukhbaatar(Mongolia, 1961)
    • Order of the Red Banner (Mongolia, 1945)
    • Medal "25 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (Mongolia, 1946)
    • Medal "For Victory over Japan" (Mongolia, 1946)
    • Order of the White Lion, 1st class (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
    • Order of the White Lion "For Victory", 1st class (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
    • Czechoslovak War Cross(1945)
    • Dukelskaya Memorial Medal (Czechoslovakia, 1959)
    • Medal "25 Years of the Slovak National Uprising" (Czechoslovakia, 1965)
    • Legion of Merit, Chief Commander (United States, 1946)
    • Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour(France, 1945)
    • Croix de guerre 1914-1918(France, 1916)
    • Croix de guerre 1939-1945(France, 1945)
    • Order "Protecting the motherland", 1st, 2nd and 3rd Classes (Romania, all in 1950)
    • Medal "For Liberation from Fascism" (Romania, 1950)
    • Order of the Republic of Hungary, 1st class (1947)
    • Order "For Services to Hungary", 1st class, twice (1950 and 1965)
    • Order of the Hungarian Freedom (1946)
    • Order of the Star of Indonesia, 2nd class (1963)
    • Order of the Star of Valour (Indonesia, 1962)
    • Medal "20 Years of the Bulgarian People's Army" (1964)
    • Order of the Blazing Banner, 1st class (China, 1946)
    • Medal "Sino-Soviet friendship" (China, 1956)
    • Order of Military Merit, 1st Class (Morocco, 1965)
    • Order of the National Flag, 1st class (North Korea, 1948)
    • Medal "For the liberation of Korea" (1946)
    • Medal "40 years of the liberation of Korea" (1985, posthumous)
    • Medal "Brotherhood in Arms", 1st class (East Germany, 1966)
    • Cross of Independence (Mexico, 1964)
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    Bunch of Norwegians knighted a penguin in 2008
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    Japanese supreme command had already prepared in 1945 operation decision (ketsu-go) which envisaged the deployment of 2.5 million troops along the Japanese coast to rebel any allied invasion, these were reinforced by 4 million civilian employees of the army and civilian militia numbering 28 million! a conventional invasion of mainland japan would have been no D-Day it might have been more like a Stalingrad. One mobilized high school girl, Yuki Kasha, found herself issued an awl and told, "Even killing one American soldier will do. … You must aim for the abdomen."

    battlefield of kursk was the size of Wales

    2 million German soldiers were tied down in air defense of Germany 1944-1945

    during WW2 Lancaster crews life expectancy was 12 mission. also they were flying in the altitude of 28 000 ft in temperatures so cold that the naked flesh could stick permanently to the gun metal.

    in many books and movies, its always shown how aliens destroy and pillage earth. but men have proved that it is possible to wreak comparable havoc without the need of aliens. all they need to do is to identify this or that group of their fellow men as aliens and then kill them
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    I may have said this before, but Pope Benedict XVI was among them. He deserted and hid in a building was which was chosen as a US command post. Perhaps that's why he later became Pope. The traitor!
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bürgerbräukeller
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    Am I the only one that want to drown people who picture operation citadel as waves of Tiger and Panther tanks riding across the dry, dusty plains to do battle with Soviet tanks at point-blank range, I mean the battle was ultimately won and lost by infantry divisions??
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    Have you read a book about it? I figure it would be fantastic read and very interesting battle from tactical standpoint, but I don't know any good books about it. I don't think Beevor has written anything about it..
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    Well yea not many books talk about it in detail but I have a really old book series on ww2 that talks about it, and its name is simply ww2 so good luck finding that. (now that I remember I did found few years ago a book about the battle, and it was horrible) I did find this article that inspired me to post about it. http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm at the end there's few books suggestions.

    edit. the article is not the best.. but still worth reading.
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    thnx it was rather interesting
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    Well I did some more digging on kursk and I started to read about CAS operations at the time and found this

    http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/myth-combat-aircraft-destroying-tanks-27496.html
    i love it, i have a unhealthy bias against air force in general so to me this was a jolly good reading :D

    I know this a double post but I want your attention @D3adtrap

    I don't know if you have visited this site yet, but If you haven't and from my brief look, it looks awesome, check it out. There's a nice interview of a soviet tank platoon commander who commanded Sherman tanks, at the ready. Just wanted to point your way there :p
    http://english.iremember.ru/tankers/17-dmitriy-loza.html/
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    Thousands Korean women used as sex slaves during WW2 have not been compensated by the Japanese government yet.
    Oh wait that isn't fun, unless you're sick minded.
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    @thelistener

    NP, I combined your posts and thnx, I'll check it out once I got time.
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    Wasn't there a Japanese porn actress who was going to shag a bunch of Chinese students for compensation or something, though?
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    I am not sure.
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    Created as an expedient measure by the Canadian Army, the Kangaroos were so successful that they were soon being used by British forces as well. Their ability to manoeuvre in the field with the tanks was a major advantage
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    -Genghis Khan has 16 million direct descedents
    -Upon learning that pens couldn't properly operate a penn in space because the ink floating, NASA spent years and millions of dollars developing a special writing tool designed specifically for space. The Russians used a pencil.
    -Upon the death of Alexander Gramn Bell the telephone service was shut off for one minute in respect
    -In WW2 the Hershey Bar was used as currency amongst GI's
    -The average life-span in 1900 was 47
    -If a women watched the Olympics in Greece they could be executed
    -The first ironclad warships were built in Korea in the 1600's
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