The mission assigned to my group is as follows:• First, emerge from the Longegoutte ridge, progress on either side of the Moselotte, then, covering up facing Gérardmer, set foot on the ridge road between the Hohneck and the Schweisselwasen;• In a second step, surge on Guebwiller and the Hartmannswil
During the days of September 20, 21 and 22, the operations on the front of the 2nd C.A. had no other objective than to clarify contact with the adversary.Starting from the road Lure Isle-sur-Doubs, the 1st D.F.L. General Brosset does not go more than 3 to 4 km before coming up against a continuous l
IN his History of the 1st French Army Rhine and Danube, General de Lattre defines the Battle of the Vosges in these terms:We already know how the Liberation campaign, which began at a rapid pace in the fury of the battalions of Toulon and Marseille, followed by a a real race for the steeple with our
Beneath its apparent calm interrupted by mortar and artillery duels, the head of the ravine facing the road, near the small pass where it disappears in the direction of Terelle, teems with extraordinary life. Houses that seem abandoned are gradually filled with people and weapons, until a few artill
Among the noble HidalgoThe great colonel Gonzalès de Linarès (familiarly baptized:the noble Hidalgo) is rightly considered, since the operations of Acquafondata and Vallerotonda, for one of the best maneuvers in the French army.I settled down for the night at the headquarters of his regiment, on the
The road that crosses the plain is called Rasta. The word amazes visitors. It simply means road in Hindustani. Road -Rasta - Road, say the signs which, at the international crossroads of Cassino, must know how to speak all languages. Later, they will even speak Polish. But the word was so complicat
This letter had the effect of a bombshell in General Clarks headquarters because everyone knew that he had no equal in shaking people up. On January 30, the American attack finally reached the heights northwest of Cassino. Colonel Van Ecks 7th chasseurs dAfrique (tanks-destroyers), having disbanded
The anguish is great for Commander Gandoët who no longer has either right or left, and is still holding on to the Belvedere. He will consult with Commander Bacqué and the two men decide to hold on all the same. The Bacqué battalion replaced the Berne battalion and Gandoët ordered Jordy, who was over
Leoni battalion commanderIn the 2nd battalion, Commander Berne engaged on the 25th to the left of the Gandoët battalion with hills 771 and 721 as the first objective (0 1). crossed the Rio Secco on the outskirts of Olivella, he moved with two companies, first in the lead on 382, to then occupy wit
To the left of the 9th Company, Lieutenant Jordy, commanding the 11th Company, discovered on the other side of the Rio Secco, the entrance to the ravine which he had spotted the day before with Commander Gandoët and which we already calls the Gandoët ravine. It is a chimney in a sheer cliff, but who
The Moroccans have already started part of the program by setting foot, as we know, on the Costa San Pietro. In the meantime, other French units have landed on Italian soil, whose name will remain closely attached to this him of a Gascon gentleman:Goislard de Monsabert.After the success of the Anzio
Although scholar weapons are effective. there was never enough. But, against the relatively fragile building that is a submarine, a simple weapon can be as effective as a complicated weapon. This is what the Royal Air Force thought, which had requested, in 1938, a 40 mm automatic cannon for aircraft
American technology contributed to the creation of two other anti-war weapons. -very sophisticated and very useful submarines. The first was the sound buoy, a cylindrical container containing a sound detector. Its length of 115 cm and its diameter of only 10 cm meant that a patrol plane could carry
As we will see elsewhere, the use of rockets made immense progress during the war; in anti-submarine warfare, they were used in two other very interesting ways. One was the so-called “harpoon” rocket, a simple 76 mm solid-propellant rocket engine, with a full warhead weighing 11 kg at the front, cap
The Hedgehog Ideal complement to ASDIC, it was a multiple launcher with spurs; it projected at the front of the building, with a certain dispersion, 24 contact rocket bombs each containing 15 kg of Torpex, a powerful explosive. This allowed firing before the ASDIC contact of the submarine was lost.
Once the U-boat was located, the problem was n attack, and succeed in the attack. At the start of hostilities, no navy used any means other than the depth charge. It was simply a large steel cylinder containing about 150 kg of a powerful explosive, fitted with a fuze sensitive to water pressure and
Another tracking system, the high-frequency radiogonio (“Huff-duff” after the initials H .F.D.F. of the device). It was also passive, operating solely on the transmission of their position by the U-boats. These used to surface every day to convey their report and position to the General Staff in Ger
A mining prospecting device against German submarines Another detection device used was the Airborne Magnetic Detector, currently called the Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD). Shortly before the war, geologists used magnetic detection for mineral prospecting, using sensitive instruments measuring the
The first problem posed by the U-boat was its location; the second was its destruction. In 1917 the Allied Research Commission for the Detection of Submarines had worked seriously and for a long time to solve the first point, and towards the end of the war they created a device capable of detecting
On a purely analytical level, one could attribute this Allied victory to the influence of protection groups, sustained air escorts, the new small radar and other new weapons provided by scientists and technologists. But a considerable element should not be forgotten:the progress made by the British
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. His political project is to create a “living space” for the German people. Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarizing the Rhineland. On March 12, 1938, the German army entered Austria:without any shots being fired
War operations in North Africa during the Second World War were characterized by a constant movement from east to west and tumbalin. In July 1941, Germans and Italians besieged Tobruk. In the besieging line of the Italians, the two hills of Spiria dominated. The two Spiria were two low hills at a ve
Throughout history, books have been a highly valued commodity. Its trade dates back many centuries to the invention of supports such as papyrus and parchment, and the creation of libraries by accumulating and copying copies gave rise to collections as famous as that of Alexandria. Unfortunately man
Kingdom of Rwanda , traditional East African state, now Republic of Rwanda . The area is believed to have been settled by Hutu sometime between the 5th and 11th centuries and then from the Tutsi from the 14th century. The Tutsi, a pastoral people, dominated the Hutu, who were farmers.