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History & events of World War Two. (Moderated)
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Lost Hiroshima A-Bomb Films
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There are no known films or stills of the immediate Bomb drop on Hiroshima.
Despite the camera airplane was in position and did his job. There is only
a short b/w film by Harold Agnew and some stills of the cloud minutes later. We had this problem here before. It was suggested that the film was stored... more »
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Why couldn't the Soviets shut down the Stukas?
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T'other day I read an account of a Eastern Front
battle in late 1943. At several points during
this battle, Stukas intervened, destroying
Soviet tanks, bombing and strafing infantry,
and significantly delaying the Soviet victory.
The extent of the Stuka activities surprised me.
The Soviets by this time had lots of capable... more »
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code talkers
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According to the wikipedia a code talker is [link]
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people who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during
wartime
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It goes on to say this, which has a ring of truth to it.... more »
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Japanese plans to attack the Panama Canal
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Some weeks ago in another thread Horny Goat wrote"
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The Japanese apparently had the intent of putting
the Panama Canal out of action but not by the
method suggested above. A book recently reviewed
in the Wall Street Journal titled "Operation Storm, by
John Geoghagan, tells that early in the war Japan had... more »
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The "M" Room
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Documentary on "Secrets of the Dead" PBS entitled "Bugging Hitlers Officers".
MI16 set up several posh estates and place high ranking officers in the comfort they could never have imagined, except the entire place was bugged, including the grounds. They captured many private conversations... more »
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What did you regret not asking a departed ww2 veteran?
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I think most ww2 vets are departed now, or else not in a frame of mind to communicate clearly with younger enthusiasts. Many of us met these folks when they were still spry and talkative, but we were too dumb or ignorant to ask the right war questions. I thought we might formulate the questions... more »
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Roberto Bolaño: The Third Reich
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The Chilean/Mexican author Roberto Bola o, published an interesting novel in 1989 entitled _The Third Reich_. It's now available in English.
It's not about the war or even about the Third Reich. It's about a young German man on holiday in Spain with his girlfriend. He is the German champion at the Avalon Hill board game called "The Third Reich".... more »
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Hitler's alleged "dairies"--Update
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In light of some of the ongoing arguments
in this forum about the relative historical
limportance of new information over old,
here is evidence that sometimes fake
history becomes enshrined with the real
thing.
A few weeks ago I wrote in another thread
about a 1980s hoax with regard to the... more »
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Complaint about overused "Nazi"
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British war historian Richard Overy published an unusual
polemic this month (see
[link]
complaining about the
"indiscriminate use of the term 'Nazi' to describe anything
to do with German institutions or behaviour in the years of
the dictatorship between 1933 and 1945. . . . The NSDAP... more »
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