West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 35th state.Her keel was laid down on 12 April 1920 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 19 November 1921 sponsored by Miss Alice Wright Mann, daughter of Isaac T. Mann, a prominent West Virginian; and commissioned ...
Over dit project:= Dit project is het overkoepelend project voor alle projecten op Geni over de Tweede Wereld Oorlog in Nederland Wij vragen momenteel om hulp bij het verder uitbouwen van de sub-projecten van dit project. English: This is the main project for all Dutch WW2 related projects currently on Geni =Nederland in oorlog 1940-1945= The Netherlands at war 1940-1945 Op 10 mei 1940 viel Dui...
I have created a project for those who served on board Essex Class Carriers. Instructions and update 7/8/2020:The Essex Class Carrier Project is completed.All ships used in the class have their own projects and tied to other projects. Please place relative in the Essex Class Carrier first and then place the relative in appropriate Carrier project.Thank you. Chris L.Mathews===resources===*
Engelandvaarders= Engelandvaarder werd de erenaam voor alle mannen en vrouwen die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1940-1945), na de capitulatie van de Nederlandse strijd-krachten en vóór de geallieerde invasie in Normandië op 6 juni 1944 (D-day) uit bezet gebied wisten te ontsnappen met de bedoeling zich in Engeland of ander geallieerd gebied bij de geallieerde strijdkrachten aan te sluiten om ...
E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne Division, United States Army. Formation The 506th PIR was an experimental airborne regiment created in 1942 at Camp Toccoa, Georgia. E Company missions were to involve being parachuted from C-47 transport airplanes into hostile territory. The company included three rifle platoons and a headquarters section. Each pla...
This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who were casualties during World War II can be added. = All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers who were casualties during WWII can be added to this project. About 334,000 men volunteered for full-time service in the South African Army during the war (including some 211,000 whites, 77,000 blacks and 46,000 coloureds and In...
Casualties of World War II=The aim of this project is to record the fatalities of World War II.
War Brides= War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages between soldiers and foreigners, especially–but not exclusively–during World War I and World War II.One of the largest and best documented war bride phenomenons is American soldiers marrying German "Fräuleins" after World War II. By 1949, over 20,000 German war brides had emigrated to the US.[1] Furthermore, it is estimated ...
Slag om de Grebbeberg ‧ mei 1940 ‧ slachtoffers 〓 Dit jaar mei 2015 is het 75 jaar geleden dat dit gevecht plaatsvond. Wie helpt mee voor die datum onderstaande profielen allemaal in de geni-wereld-stamboom te krijgen? Een mooi monument voor onze nationale oorlogsslachtoffers van die dagen. 〓 Interessante documentatie over alle gevechtshandelingen vindt u via een klik op bovenstaande t...
This is an umbrella project . Please place relative here and in their carrier project. Aircraft carrier: List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy:
Battle of Kwajalein 31 January – 3 February 1944: Wikipedia The Battle of Kwajalein was fought as part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It took place from 31 January – 3 February 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing the hard-learned lessons of the Battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the sou...
Omgekomen in de Javazee ‧ 1942-1943 ‧ Dutch victims Asea 〓 Op verschillende data vonden gevechtshandelingen plaats : 02 jani 1942 - 29 nov 1943 - 13 feb 1942 - Koopvaardij-schepen - 19 feb 1942 - 24 feb 1942 - 27-28 feb 1942: Slag in de JAVA-zee 〓 Schepen : Hr.Ms. KORTENAER - Hr.Ms. JAVA - Hr.Ms. DE RUYTER 〓 ss. SUEZ MARU : Japans krijgsgevangenen-schip getorpedeerd op 29 novemb...
't Bombardement van Rotterdam ∴ 14 mei 1940 ∴ 13:30 uur Dit project draag ik op aan mijn dierbare moeder Johanna Fredrika VERROEN, die weliswaar het bombardement, samen met haar moeder, overleefde, maar nooit meer terugkeerde naar die door haar zo geliefde stad aan de Maas. Als nijv're en ook wel nuchtere Rotterdamsche vervolgde zij haar leven elders en verhuisde nog vele malen. Maar voor de ...
USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I . Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was on...
Battle of Tinian 24 July – 1 August 1944: The Battle of Tinian was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands from 24 July until 1 August 1944. The 8,000-man Japanese garrison was eliminated, and the island joined Saipan and Guam as a base for the Twentieth Air Force. Wikipedia
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific. The campaign took place in the Northern Solomons in two phases. The first phase, in which American troops landed and held...
Battle of Eniwetok,17 February – 23 February 1944: The Battle of Eniwetok was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought between 17 February 1944 and 23 February 1944, on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The invasion of Eniwetok followed the American success in the Battle of Kwajalein to the southeast. Capture of Eniwetok would provide an airfield and harbor to support att...
USS Langley (CVL-27):
Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 hectares (86 acres). It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. At some time during the w...
USS Hill (DE-141): CPO.Edwin Joseph Hill:
John Pope:
For those who were U.S.Naval Corpsman .
USS Pillsbury (DE-133): Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury: