Rear Admiral Robert E.Peary: NOTE: Picture is of U.S.S. Edsall
USS Hammann (DE-131): ENS. Charles Hazeltine Hammann: Note: Picture is of U.S.S. Edsall.
NOTE: Picture is of U.S.S. Edsall. Commadore Jacob Nicholas Jones:
USS Edsall (DE-129): Seaman Norman Edsall:
After a twenty-three-year absence, women returned to general Navy service in early August 1942, when Mildred McAfee was sworn in as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander, the first female commissioned officer in U.S. Navy history, and the first Director of the WAVES, or "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service". In the decades since the last of the Yeomen (F) left active duty, only a rela...
==Overview==North Africa was probably one of the fronts most neglected both by Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War. The conflict began with a few skirmishes along the border in June 1940 and ended in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis troops in Tunisia. But this theatre of war certainly was not of secondary importance given the number of soldiers involved in the fighting, the ...
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England= Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England , was the central site of the United Kingdom's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which during the Second World War regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.The official historian of World War II British Int...
EEREBEGRAAFPLAATS in de Kennemer duinen van Bloemendaal / Overveen waar 373 verzets-strijders uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog hun laatste rustplaats vonden. Voor zover niet anders vermeld kwamen zij om op 1 juli 1943 tijdens executies elders in de Kennemerduinen waar zij aanvankelijk ter plekke werden begraven. Sommigen kregen posthuum het Verzetsherdenkingskruis 1940-1945 en zijn gemarkeerd ♕ . Ex...
During the war, it is estimated that approximately 5% of the national population were involved in some form of resistance activity. The persecution of Belgian Jews and conscription of Belgian civilians into forced labour programs increasingly turned patriotic Belgian civilians from liberal or Catholic backgrounds against the German regime and towards the resistance.Under German occupation, the ...
"Chakdina" was built in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1. On 13 January 1940 it was requisitioned by Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel. On the late afternoon of 5 December 1941 the SS Chakdina had left Tobruk Harbour, Libya, carrying around 380 wounded Allied soldiers, 100 German and Italian Prisoners of War and 120 crew away from grossly overcrowded hospitals. A number of other Allied soldiers ...
World War Two: Armed Forces - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)= Image right Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery inspects a Royal Rhodesia Regiment guard of honour during a visit to the territory in 1947Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery inspects a Royal Rhodesia Regiment guard of honour during a visit to the territory in 1947 This project aims to honour the Rhodesians who fought and/or died during or as a co...
PORTAL (master project) for South African involvement during World War II.==== This is the start of a project to pull together and list all Projects ( not profiles ) related to South Africans during World War II. ===At the moment there aren't many projects for South African involvement during WWII. Here is the start of getting some sub-projects going where we can add profiles of SA soldiers who...
USS Flaherty (DE-135): C. Flaherty:
USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4),:
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) :
314th Infantry Regiment (United States) : War II
USS Princeton (CVL-23):
USS Monterey (CVL-26):
A project trying to restore the names of the holocaust victims of the village Oboltsy, Orsha district, Vitebsk region, Belarus.== History ==The town of Oboltsy, Tolochinsky district, has been known since the end of the 14th century. A brief history of the ancient Obolets can be found on Wikipedia. The landowner was the landowner Zaretsky. His estate consisted of two houses. Some rooms were loca...
USS Douglas L. Howard (DE-138): Legate Howard:
USS Midway (CVB/CVA/CV-41):
USS San Jacinto (CVL-30):
Background === Berga an der Elster , a subdivision of Buchenwald, was a Nazi slave labor camp that held and tortured 350 American Prisoners of War (POW) after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944. While thousands of POWs were captured on that ill-fated day, the Nazis held a subset of 350 American soldiers at Berga beginning February 13, 1945. The American POWs were iden...