Some really good stuff there (and something other than Wikipedia finally... althought Wikipedia is great :D). I have recently taken an interest in forest firefighting, and I had no idea that smoke-jumpers originated from the Fugos during WWII.

The retaking of Corregidor Island

March 1945

http://www.corregidor.org/chs_impact/impact2.htm

http://www.corregidor.org/Corregidor...Air/hill16.jpg

Night Of The Bombers

The most daring mission of Finnish bombers in WW2

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/WW2...heBombers.html

That was very intersesting HT :up: I'll have to ask Dowly about this over on TS tonight :yep:

The Battle of Brisbane :D

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-...e-brisbane.htm

This ones not funny

http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/w...tes/cowra.html

Privates Jones and Hardy got the George Cross for their actions during the breakout , maning the Vickers then disabeling it before they died so that it couldnt be used by the Japanese.

What for?? I just heard of it myself too. ;)

"Sonderkommando Junck"
http://www.luftwaffe39-45.historia.n...10_drewes2.jpg

The german military mission to Iraq 1941. (can't find any english page on it)
In May 1941, the Luftwaffe dispatched a small unit to Iraq to support the anti-british coup there, via Vichy French Syria.
It consisted of around a dozen Me 110 heavy fighters of 4./ZG 76 as well as around half a dozen He 111 bombers of KG 4, supported by Ju 52s and also huge Ju 90 transports.
As shown, all aircraft were painted in iraqui markings.
Some missions were flown, but the whole operation was a logistical nightmare, as everything had to be flown in from Rhodes(!) to Aleppo in Syria, taking a detour to avoid both Cyprus and Egypt-based RAF fighters. Eventually, the 110 and 111s were all either lost or abandoned due to lack of spares, but personell losses were light.
One of the Me 110 pilots was Martin Drewes, a later nightfighter ace whose first victory was a RAF Gloster Gladiator shot down over Habbanyia.
http://www.wfg-gk.de/geschichte1.html
2004 account of Drewes in German (Drewes actually wrote a book which is extremely hard to get)
Quote: Infrastructure - none, spares - none, fuel - none really suitable for our engines.

Awesome thread. I love this stuff.

Wey ya crazy little Finnish ferret :lol:

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If I only knew the name of the battle or operation...:damn:

What I'm thinking about is the fighting that took place between the Italians and other foreign volunteers in the German Army vs the Soviets outside Stalingrad.

I found some stuff about Hungarians at Stalingrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Second_Army

Italians at Stalingrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian...iana_in_Russia

And Rumanians at Stalingrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Fourth_Army

I nominate Operation Exporter, the British/Free French invasion of Vichy-controlled Lebanon and Syria.

http://www.blitzkrieg-commander.com/...onExporter.pdf

That article lead me to this, history is great.:D

http://www.concretebattleship.org/ and

http://www.travelsmart.net/ph/inquir...s/fea_main.htm

The Battle off Samar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar

This raid marked the first action in the Gilbert Islands -- even before Tarawa. It is largely overshadowed by the full-scale assault over a year later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makin_Raid

Battle of Greenland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...ng_World_War_2

The Norwegian stand at Hegra Fortress near Trondheim. 200-300 volunteers dug an old decomissioned fort out of the snow drift and held off a German regiment for almost a full month until they learned all other forces in South Norway had surrendered and that there was, in effect, nothing left to defend.

Wiki article.

The battle of Bir Hakeim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bir_Hakeim