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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...
On 31 October 1944, 733 Polish refugee children and 105 adult caregivers, sailed into Wellington Harbour on the General Randall. On 1 November they settled into the Polish Children's Camp at Pahiatua, north of Wellington. They had lost their homes and family members following the 1939 German invasion of Poland and its subsequent occupation by the USSR. In 1940 the first of a total of 1,700,000...
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...
No. 305 Polish Bomber Squadron "Ziemia Wielkopolska" ("Land of Greater Poland") (Polish: 305 Dywizjon Bombowy "Ziemi Wielkopolskiej im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego") was a Polish World War II bomber unit. It fought alongside the Royal Air Force under their operational Command and operated from airbases in the United Kingdom. History The last of the Polish bomber squadrons under Royal Air F...
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):
John Pope:
USS Pillsbury (DE-133): Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury:
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:
==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...
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 ...
Kobiety nie były i nie są objęte powszechnym obowiązkiem służby wojskowej, w związku z tym ich udział w formacjach wojskowych był przed II wojną światową marginalny. Już wówczas jednak zdarzały się sporadyczne przypadki ich służby w wojsku, także w Polsce, w tym w tak elitarnych formacjach, jak na przykład lotnictwo. Pilotem była por. WP Janina Dowbór-Muśnicka (córka gen. Józefa Dowbór-Muśnicki...
"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 ...
USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4),:
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB/CVA/CV-42) :
314th Infantry Regiment (United States) : War II
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...