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Hi, Bretteville, Norrrey, Rots, Putot... It was hell for both canadians and germans. Unfortunately for the canadians, there was Château d'Audrieu. Nobody is really sure who gave the order to shoot the canadian POW's. Bernhard Siebken was hung for this war crime. Maybe it wasn't him. What about Mohnk...

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It's strange that the frenchmen thought about to reverse the side of the ejection in the 80's and not the englishmen.

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Hi, 40 000 french soldiers were captured in Dunkerque ( Dunkirk for you) The BEF let after the evacuation : 76 000 tons of ammunitions 600 000 tons of supplies and fuel 1 200 guns 1 250 antitank and antiaircraft guns 6 400 antitank rifles 11 000 machine-guns 75 000 vehicles My book doesn't tell wher...

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The SA80 is to go into Left handed production soon apparently

What do you mean ? Is it impossible to reverse the extractor and the ejector on a SA 80 breech ? Since the beginning of the production, the french Famas has this possibility.

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Ok, tar and feather for everyone. Hen feather for congressmen, goose feather for the president and lame duck feather for the vice-president

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Hi Sid, I haven't found anything about polish attacks over the Reich in september 1939. The only thing I've read is : 3rd September 1939, the chief of the polish air force ask to the chief of staff of the polish army the permission of bombing Koenigsberg with P 37 bombers. The answer was no. It was ...

Hi, In one of my books, at Norrey, it was the tanks ( 9 Sherman, one of them was a Firefly) from the 2nd canadian brigade (Eglin Regiment), lead by the Major Tweedale, for the 10th Armoured Regiment ( Fort Garry Horse). But there were also 2 antitank guns at Norrey. It seems that the canadian infant...

Hi, I guess all the bull-pup rifles need this device. The french Famas has this device. Does the english SA 80 have it ? An another dumb question : on a M1 Garand, the clip was ejected vertically or vertically and slightly to the right ? About the left handed people, did you use a computer for left ...

Hi Sid, One thing I am always looking for is a book covering French military reaction to the various war scares between the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936 and the outbreak of war in 1939. I would particularly like to see details of French deployments at the height of the Munich Crisis. Ha...

Hi Sid, He suffers from one of the great weaknesses (in my opinion) of much French historical writing I'am agree with you Sid but it's true also that it is only this kind of books which are translated into a foreign language. We have a lot of serious history books on WWII. But I guess Jean Mabire is...

Hi, Tel : 04 66 36 10 88 ( in France) for a foreigner I guess it's 33 4 66 36 10 88. You'll find a map there : http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/pb.cgi Write "c'était demain" in the case "Nom" and "nimes" in the case "ville" and then click on "Rechercher". A...

Hi, Maybe the main problem isn't the gun by itself but the person who uses it. I mean if you have a gun, you must know how to use it correctly. - How to aim a non lethal zone in the burglar's body in you're in danger - To be able to hit the target with accuracy and not all the neighborhood - To be a...

Hi, There weren't only former waffen SS or Fallschirmjager. One of my friend who was pilot in Indochina ( on Junker 52, even the planes were germans) told me that one day he saw a soldier giving advices for choosing good artillery locations to an officer. This soldier had experience, he was officer ...

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You're welcome. Glad to help.
At Douvres la Delivrande ( Stp I), there is a small musuem in the former main bunker ( the one which provided the energy).

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Following the good idea of k-pp, I've found that the gemischte Flak-Abteilung 122 (v) was at Boulogne between june 1941 and july 1942.

http://www.ww2.dk/ground/flak/abt/gem122.html

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