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Gold Remains a Good long-term Investment Whether the dollar goes up or down, gold is still going to be a good investment because we have virtually all the important central bankers focused on growth and not inflation. Gold is a dynamic metal....

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Request for Identication - Crashed Plane 1945 I need the following answers : (Body) German or British ? (Plane) German or British ? I have studied the photos for more than an hour and I am still wondering because the Cockpit looks like an AAF P-38's...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it's a really good one. Joe Summers Pontoon bridge over the Rhine River. Note signs : (left) seems to be a "one way - Red Ball Express",...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division. My Dad took a photo of the same concrete bunker from a distance. It had a Russian star on top of it when he took the photo....

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Well, these new photos are fields photos and request from me some researches. This is exactly what I like to do, so it will take a little more time as usual to be posted. And once again thanks to Cindy...

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Omaha Beach 6-13 Juin 1944 (1)

Category : Omaha Beach, Textes en Français

Avant-Propos – 2009

Avant de publier sur ce site l’ouvrage des Editions Foxmaster que je dirigeais dans les courant des années 1990-1995 et avant de me séparer de la Société en prenant soins toutefois de conserver le catalogue et les droits, je voudrais attirer l’attention du lecteur d’expression française sur le point suivant : tant Heimdall que Foxmaster et d’autres ont publié bien des ouvrages sur le sujet. A chaque fois, des lecteurs exprimèrent de nombreux commentaires, souvent positifs ou non. Je lance donc ici un appel à ceux qui d’une manière ou d’une autre seraient susceptibles d’apporter à ce travail une quantité d’anecdotes inédites, des images inconnues voir même des récites toujours inconnus à ce jour. Bien que le coût du maintient de mon site en ligne devient de plus en plus difficile à supporter seul j’aimerai faire savoir aux lecteurs, aux historiens et aux passionnées de cette période que la place n’a pas de limite sur Internet. Il ne peut donc être question d’éloigner des photos ou des récits par manque de place comme dans l’édition papier. Aussi, je vous invite tous à ma faire parvenir vos documents et images via émail avec vos désidératas, vos envies, et surtout vos coordonnées afin de pouvoir ajouter vos propos dans le texte que je publie et que j’envisage de renommer – la version corrigée – avec votre aide, vos essais, vos écrits et même vos livres qui trouveront ici la publicité qu’ils méritent.

Gunter G. Gillot Jr – Jalhay – 2009
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WW-2 Best Kept Secret

Category : Books Reviews

bbbbbWillis S. Cole, Jr., known to most as “Sam,” has a life-long interest in military history. For more than sixteen years Sam has been intensely researching the crashes of two American World War Two bombers in France.
One, the “Lady Jeannette,” is a dual Congressional Medal of Honor B-17G, that crashed on November 1944, the other is a Top-Secret B-24J, flying a Top-Secret night mission while attached to the RAF, that crashed in the early morning of 10 November 1944.

In 1997, Sam wrote the nonfiction military history book, “The Last Flight of The Lady Jeannette,” about the dual Congressional Medal of Honor, B-17G, “Lady Jeannette.”
Using available official records, hundreds of interviews with survivors, the French in the area where the B-17G supposedly crashed, the
families of those who died in the crash, and the families of those who survived and had later died. The book proved the “Lady Jeannette” had crashed near Tincourt-Boucly, in the Department of the Somme, France.
In the summer of 1998, with newly acquired physical evidence from the supposed “Lady Jeannette” crash-site, Sam then began to prove all the official records, except for the Graves Registration records for the dead were false. And even those records were somewhat false, with two of those GR records showing they had been tampered with, after their creation. As the new evidence prove beyond dispute, two American bombers were now involved, the “Lady Jeannette”, that had crashed at another, unknown, location, and a newly discovered B-24.
In due time the Air Force Historical Research Agency, the Air Force, the National Archives and open-minded military historians had to agree the “Lady Jeannette” did not crash where the false official records state she had crashed. In fact, it was the newly identified Top-Secret B-24J, shot down by American “Friendly-Fire,” that did crash at that location.
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16 Decembre 1944, 0530-H : The Bulge

Category : 099th-IR(S)(V), Battle of the Bulge

If the Krauts crack the defenses in the North Shoulder, they won’t surround the 101/AB Division in Bastogne, but the entire 1st Army in Belgium.

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St Vith 7th Armored Division December 21-31/44

Category : 007th Armored Division

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21 DECEMBER 1944
Combat Command B – Retires from St Vith
At 210400 December 1944, outposts of CCB/7AD reported indication that a German tank and infantry attack was massing in the vicinity of Nieder Emmels. Continued noise of movement was heard in Nieder Emmels and Ober Emmels during the remainder of the early morning.
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