What type of Unit/Army are you interested in?

[StetsonHomburg]

Hello,

From my other thread I got an idea to ask a question....

What type of Unit/Army are you interested in?
Me Personally it would be the Gebirgsjager's in the Heer
(Mountain Troops), The Deutsches Afrikakorps, and The
Kings Own Calgary Regiment (An armoured regiment, from
my home town that fought in Italy)

 

[Diamondback]

Primarily the Sixth and Eighth (Southwest Pacific) and the Third (Patton's) here; largely as an adjunct to my profiling work on their commanders.

 

[cco23i]

Army air force ground crews!!!! Gotta keep the crates in the air!!!


Scott

 

[JPH]

I have to CHOOSE?

Joseph
Sheesh!

 

[Chris Dillon]

I have a soft spot for the Gebirgsjaeger and SS div. Nord

 

[p51]

• War correspondents, although they don't count as a unit.
• 2nd ID, because I served with them on active duty.
• 45th ID, mostly the 180th Infantry, as it was Bill Mauldin's outfit before he joined Stars & Stripes

 

[SkullCowboy]

Bomber crews. The idea of climbing into something big and slow that, for the most part, offers protection the thickness of a beer can with no place to hide once spotted...

 

[Silver Dollar]

The 8th Air Force with the 100th BG in particular. It was the best dang unit they was in the whole danged Air Force.

 

[the hairy bloke]

13 DBLE, The Gaullist French Foreign Legion.

Who was in it? Did they recruit during the War?

I don't know, and I would like any-one out there who can suggest a book, or two, to tell me.

 

[Story]

13 DBLE, The Gaullist French Foreign Legion.

Who was in it? Did they recruit during the War?

I don't know, and I would like any-one out there who can suggest a book, or two, to tell me.

From the December 2006 issue of MILITARY HISTORY Magazine
http://www.historynet.com/french-foreign-legions-13th-demi-brigade-fought-in-world-war-ii.htm

 

[green papaya]

French Foreign Legionnaires

Spanish American War "The Rough Riders"

WWI US Doughboys

WWII US Infantry, WWII USN Fighting ships, Liberty Ships [ Merchant Marine]

Korean war US Infantry

Vietnam War Special Forces, LRRP, Mike Force, USN Brown Water Navy "Riverine Forces"

US army grunt in Vietnam 25th Inf div.

PAVN, North Vietnamese army [NVA] National Liberation Front [VC]

 

[Spitfire]

The Battle of France - The Battle of Britain.
RAF - Fighter Command.
Especially 85 Squadron.

Am also slightly turning into RAF Bomber Command - but being such a huge subject, I only scratch in the surface yet.

 

[Smithy]

My interest is very similar to Spitfire's.

The Battles of France and Britain and especially RAF Fighter Command in them, with a special interest in 64, 92 and 601 Sqns.

 

[KilroyCD]

I'm with Spitfire and Smithy, but add 19 and 610 Squadrons to the mix.

 

[Sgt Brown]

13th Attack Squadron, 3rd Attack Group, New Guinea. (Da guys that invented the B25 strafers.):cheers1:

On the other side of the pond? 51st Highland Division and/or 2nd Ox & Bucks (Pegasus Bridge) for Europe and LRDG or PPA for the Desert.:beer:

On the other side, period? Maybe an Italian unit in the Desert. Not "into" Jerries.*yucky*

Tom

 

[Ruptured Duck™]

Battle of Britain (12 Group) & the Doolittle Raiders

I like the Eagle Squadron merely because it connects the RAF with myself as an American.

 

[Widebrim]

7th ID, USA (my father's division in WWII); 40th and 42nd IDs (my divisions); Infantry and mounted Cavalry units; Italian Army: Bersaglieri, Alpini, Cavalry, particularly in Africa.

 

[Atticus Finch]

"The Topsail Rifles," Company H, 10th Regiment N.C. State Troops (1st Regiment N.C. Artillery)...my paternal great, great grandfather's unit.

Below, the two of us together.

AF

 

[Belle Fatale]

I'm fascinated by the WA(A)Cs, because they paved the way for female soldiers. Also the Army Air Forces, because my grandfather served in them.

I need to make a note to get my dad to sign the form requesting Grandpa's service records. I have no idea what units he was in or anything, and my dad doesn't know either.

[*]2nd ID, because I served with them on active duty.

fftopic: Me, too. Stryker?

 

[MisterCairo]

Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment (my father's regiment)
6 Group RCAF
400 Sqn RCAF