The silent killing, the S.K., is a set of techniques intended to allow us to get rid, in silence, of an opposing sentry, to defend ourselves against one or more enemies, to use all the weapons within our reach, even the more unlikely. The S.K. uses all holds and all forbidden blows of close combat,
“Plastic and Demolitions Co” is the nickname of “force 136”. We are indeed, every day, initiated into sabotage, sabotage by explosives or by any other means at our disposal. Plastic, soon to be replaced by 808, comes in the form of a kind of modeling clay that we mold around the piece to be cut. Rai
We are housed in prefabricated, semi-hemispherical barracks, and have a mess and sports fields. We have the latitude to indulge ourselves every day in the lake for the practice of sailing, swimming, all recreations that the instructors strongly encourage. Discipline during working hours is strict. O
In small groups or individually, French officers and non-commissioned officers weresent to India and were integrated into the French Service Action, which worked closely with force 136. This s force 136, dependent on the Special opera-rions executive, whose P.C. is in London, has the responsibility
The Eighth Army was a formation of the British Army. She fought in the North African Campaign, particularly in the First and Second Battles of El Alamein and the Italian Campaign. It is one of the most famous formations of World War II. Organization It was always commanded by British officers, incl
The United States Marine Corps (from English meaning Marine Corps of the United States), also abbreviated as US Marine Corps or by the initials USMC, is one of the five branches of the armed forces of the United States. It is mainly the naval infantry of this country but the corps also has its airme
The following organization was based on two armored regiments (with two battalions of medium tanks and one battalion of light tanks each), an infantry regiment with three battalions, and three groups of self-propelled of 105 mm, for a total of 375 tanks. In execution of General Chaffees subsequent d
The Her Majestys Royal Marines better known as the Royal Marines are the naval infantry force of the United Kingdom, they depend administratively on the Royal Navy. Although the British Empire has spread over the centuries to all the seas of the globe, at the beginning of the 21st century the Unite
The term Panzergrenadier, designates from 1942, the special infantry of the Heer and the Waffen-SS, responsible for accompanying combat tanks. Today, the term is still used within the Bundeswehr, to designate mechanized infantry. Creation Previously, the regiments in charge of this role within the
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States government. It was created on June 13, 1942 after the United States entered World War II to collect information and conduct clandestine and unordered actions by other bodies. It was dismantled at the end of 1945 t
The North African theater of operations during the Second World War took place mainly on the coastal edge of the Mediterranean, from French Tunisia coveted by Italy, which was already occupying its Libyan colony, to British Egypt, which had a reduced army. Mussolini thought the game was playable; Th
Jedburgh is an operation carried out by the Allied forces during the Second World War, which aimed to coordinate the action of the maquis with the general plans of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and to equip the resistance fighters, in France and the Netherlands , with a view to
The Flying Tigers is the nickname given to a squadron of American pilots, officially known as the 1st American Volunteer Group, or AVG. Based in China during the Second World War, the squadron took part in the Sino-Japanese war and the Burma campaign. It was incorporated during the conflict into the
The first German armored divisions were organized around a brigade made up of two tank regiments, each regiment being made up of two battalions, for a total of 16 companies and 561 tanks. The extremist concept of all armoured was never accepted by Guderian, which made the Panzerdivision (Pz.D) a lar
We cannot consider as an armored division the 3 French Light Mechanized Division (DLM) of 1939/40 whose main mission were those of the cavalry, lighting and in-depth reconnaissance on the battlefield as well as security. Their organization, however, had many points in common with that of the DCR (St
The British Armored Division of 1940 comprised a light armored brigade with three mixed battalions, and a heavy brigade with three battalions of medium tanks. Their support was provided by an accompanying group comprising an infantry battalion, a small artillery regiment and an engineer company.The
The Deutsches Afrika Korps (abbreviated as Afrika Korps, Afrikakorps or DAK) was the headquarters commanding German panzer divisions in the desert of Libya and western Egypt, and later in Tunisia, during World War II. Gradually, the name Afrika Korps encompassed the HQ and the military units attache
The Kenpeitai, founded in 1881 during the Meiji era, is the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army. History It was founded in 1881 by a decree concerning the gendarmerie, taking the French gendarmerie as a model. It served as a secret police to hunt down opponents of the regime; it was one
Force 136 was a unit of the Special Operations Executive. special operations”) formed by the British during the Second World War, to supervise the maquis in the territories of Asia occupied by the Japanese and to carry out subversive actions there. It was made up of British soldiers or other allied
Fallschirmjäger (Pronunciation listen) is the German term, both singular and plural, for a military paratrooper. Fallschirm means parachute and Jäger a hunter or light infantry unit. During World War II, Germany began to create military parachute battalions. Unlike the British Army and the US Army,
Kush , also Cush written , the southern part of the ancient region known as Nubia . Read more about this topic Sudan:The Kingdom of Kush … provincial capital in Aswān and Kush (also spelled Cush) in the south with headquarters in Napata (Marawī). Nubia...
Poland on a unique old map from around 1300. Map from Hereford - this is what the world looked like over 700 years ago in the work of cartographers at the time. What interesting information does this medieval map of England hide about our region? Where is Poland located on the map from Hereford?
BT-7, BT-7A, BT-7M , BT-7U, BT-7TU and variants, plus BT-1, BT-S and BT-5. Type: fast tank.Crew: 3 men.Armament: a 35 mm M 1935 gun; a coaxial 7.62 mm DT machine gun. (Some vehicles had a second DT 7.62mm machine gun at the rear of the turret and a P.40 machine gun.)Armour: minimum 10mm;maximum 22
When Jawaharlal Nehru became angry, Mountbattens eyes went to Sardar Patel, but by now Mountbatten had understood that Patel would prove to be more rigid than Nehru in this matter. Therefore, Mountbatten asked VP Menon, his political advisor and secretary of the princely department of Sardar Patel,