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 LiquidFlint |
Forgotten Fronts |
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Posts: 174 (06/12/03 23:01:53) |
Some battle zones you don't hear much about:
French-Italian Frontier 1944/45 Kurland 1944/45 Ethiopia 1941 The Brits in Greece 1944/45. There's probably plenty more. |
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Dougermouse |
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Posts: 54 (06/13/03 16:24:32) |
New Guinea doesn't get any of the pub that the mid-pacific fronts get.
Burma often gets forgotten. Numiea gets forgotten, but the malaria there forced the US to abondon it! |
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SGM Maciborski |
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Posts: 158 (06/13/03 17:32:47) |
New Guinea is still pretty big here in west Michigan. The 32d Red Arrow Division was a Michigan National Guard unit and spent about 300+ days in combat there. I would add one, the Japanese vs China. I haven't even see a book or magazine article on it.
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Jarek |
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Posts: 21 (06/26/03 07:00:03) |
Could also add the Leventine battles between UK and Vichy French, but the worst sin for forgeting a front must be Burma.
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Jan soldaat |
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Posts: 2 (06/28/03 17:02:53) |
The home front
  In Holland there isn't much interest in the pacific ore the Burma front There more interested in western and eastern front despite the colonial past (New Guinea and former Dutch Indonesia  ) |
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aktarian |
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Posts: 203 (06/28/03 23:47:00) |
French and Brits fighting on Madagascar May 1942.
Germans, Italains and Brits fighting in Iraq 1941. |
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Wild Bill Natanya |
Re: Forgotten Fronts | ||
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Posts: 154 (07/06/03 13:59:22) |
Don't forget the british invasion of Vichy French controlled Syria and Lebanon in 41 or 42.
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Odin of Ossetia |
Re: Forgotten Fronts | ||
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Posts: 20 (08/03/03 16:16:57) |
Want to read about some really forgotten fronts?! Check these pages: wolnapolska.boom.ru/index...skiej.html wolnapolska.boom.ru/index...owsza.html wolnapolska.boom.ru/index...ckiej.html wolnapolska.boom.ru/index-AL.html wolnapolska.boom.ru/index-OBAL1.html wolnapolska.boom.ru/index-axis.html Have a nice reading! |
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malambo |
Rply:forgotten fronts | ||
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Posts: 17 (08/13/03 19:38:16) |
-the fighting in Mindanao islands.
-even Bataan and Coriggedor(the Rock) was forgotten. -the last stand of Gen. Yamashita in Bagiuo. -Battle of Intramuros-Manila. -I wonder Why people don't give much attention on these events! |
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nigelfe |
Iraq | ||
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Posts: 27 (08/26/03 06:00:17) |
There weren't any Italians and the Germans didn't fight, one day they were prancing around Baghdad in shiny jackboots the next they scuttled away. There was brief fighting between British (mainly Indian) and Iraqi forces, basically the Iraqis realised, despite their fascist tendencies, that discretion was the better part of valour when faced by Brit and Indian troops who were clearly in no mood to be stuffed about and led by Bill Slim.
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aktarian |
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Posts: 203 (08/26/03 07:22:14) |
Germany and Italy send their airforces to aid Iraqis. Most of it was destroyed on Palmira airfield and rest was later withdrawn.
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nigelfe |
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Posts: 27 (09/13/03 04:26:40) |
In outline:
Iraq became independent in about 1937. UK retained airbases at Habbaniya (about 50 miles west of Baghdad) and another airfield about 10 miles west of Basra. Broke diplomatic relations wth Germany but not Italy in 1939 when war started. Iraq govt overthrown by coup at the beginning of April 1941, pro-German. Oil re-directed from Haifa to Vichy French Syria. Mid April, 10 Ind Div depart Karachi for Basra, not tactically loaded having been going to Malaya (weren't they lucky). On arrival in Basra Brit battalion of lead bde (21 Indian Bde) flown to Habbabiniya. 2-7 May Iraqi forces attempt to take Habbaniya but defeated. RAF destoys Iraqi airforce by attacking its airfields. Force from Palestine (mech elms of 1 Cav Div, plus Arab Legion) heads to Habbaniya (about 500 miles) and another from Basra heads north. Mid may Germans start flying in aircraft via Syria, total about 50, to Mosul and a couple of other airfields in same area. Never manage to fly more that 6 offensive sorties per day, average 1.5 sorties per day - pathetic. Extent of air to air fighting depends on which sources you read, tried to attack advancing troops but virtually no affect. Suggested reason for German air failure is death of its comd Major Axel von Blomberg almost as soon as he arrived (shot by tribesman when landing at Baghdad). End of Apr, Brit and Indian troops enter Baghdad. |
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Wild Bill Natanya |
The Russians in Norway. | ||
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Posts: 154 (09/13/03 08:33:27) |
I don't think many people know what happened in Northern Norway at the end of the war. The Russians broke through at Grense Jakobselv (the Jacob River Frontier), liberating Kirkenes and continuing southward to Bod and Narvik and so on. It was not a grand battle and hardly a campaign, but while the Germans escaped from their northern garrisons they burned cities, farms, boats and killed cattle.
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Odin of Ossetia |
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Posts: 20 (10/07/03 15:32:29) |
Iraq became independent in 1932 and not 1937. For more details about its armed forces during WWII and what they did you can find on this page: members.tripod.com/~marci...dex-2.html |
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Srdo |
Yugoslavia | ||
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Posts: 3 (11/13/03 01:34:54) |
Yugoslavia 1941-1945.
It is astonishing how many people overlook this front although during this period no less then 15 German divisions were involved in fighting in any time and even more in the late stage of war when they were retreating from Greece. In 1945. Yugoslavian partizans effectivelly became an army with more than 300 000 soldiers. |
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Wild Bill Natanya |
Re: Yugoslavia | ||
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Posts: 154 (11/20/03 07:17:50) |
Just read Alistair MacLean's "Force Ten From Navarone" and "Partisans", he has the knowledge.
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Gen Maczek |
The Warsaw Uprisng | ||
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Posts: 5 (11/22/03 22:24:16) |
Either completely ommited or mistaken for the Ghetto Uprising
 , it lasted 63 days and cost 10,000 Germans and over 30,000 Poles their lives (on top of about 200,000 civilians).Besides that, the whole Polish underground, the largest and most active in the whole of occupied Europe. |
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Odin of Ossetia |
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Posts: 20 (12/19/03 12:50:58) |
No, you got it completely mistaken; it cost the Germans something like 25,000 lives (including those missing and presumed dead), the Polish forces just about as much, for a grand total of about 300,000 Polish lives, vast majority of them civilian. Next time post correct numbers. wolnapolska.boom.ru Besides, the Polish underground was hardly the most active one, as this honour probably belongs to Yugoslavia. |
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Wild Bill Natanya |
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Posts: 154 (12/21/03 05:07:58) |
I agree with Odin here.
Quote: Besides, the Polish underground was hardly the most active one, as this honour probably belongs to Yugoslavia. The Partisans were more an overground than an underground, don't you think? But... Quote: Next time post correct numbers. Take it easy Odin, everybody makes mistakes. |
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Constantine |
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Posts: 3 (03/01/04 20:47:53) |
There's a whole world of WW2 history almost everyone seems to have forgotten. The fighting in the "rest" of Africa. Most people that are into WW2 ETO history know at least the bare bits about North Africa, but how many know about the other forgotten battles?
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MSMAnzac |
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Posts: 6 (03/05/04 01:55:15) |
While not "forgotten" as such, but not (IMO) given anywhere near the "credit" deserved in the final outcome:
1. The Battle of the Atlantic 2. The supply lines to Russia Cheers, Jim |
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