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  2. Military Order of the World Wars - Wikipedia

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    The Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) is an American social organization of military officers of the United States and their descendants. It was created in 1919 as the Military Order of the World War at the suggestion of General of the Armies John J. Pershing as a fraternity for American military officers coming out of World War I .

  3. Comparative officer ranks of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers Royal Serbian Army [41] Bojni Vojvoda [n] General [o] Pukovnik: Potpukovnik: Major: Kapetan 1. klase: Kapetan 2. klase: Poručnik: Potporučnik: Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers United States Army [42] General of the Armies [p] General ...

  4. Comparative officer ranks of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Red Army Uniforms of World War II in Colour Photographs. London: Windrow & Greene. ISBN 978-1872004594. Rosignoli, Guido (1972). Army badges and insignia of World War 2: Book 1. MacMillan Colour Series. New York: Blandford Press Ltd. ISBN 9780026050807. LCCN 72-85765. Rosignoli, Guido (1980). Naval and Marine Badges and Insignia of World War 2 ...

  5. List of comparative military ranks - Wikipedia

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    Confederate Army during the civil war; Confederate Navy during the civil war; Military ranks of the Ottoman Empire; Rank insignia of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces; Ranks in the Austro-Hungarian Navy; Royal Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries; South Vietnamese military ranks and insignia; United States (Union) Army during the civil war

  6. American units with the highest percentage of casualties per ...

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    American Civil War: Apr 29, 1861 - Apr 28, 1864: 286 609 895 Confederacy 1st Infantry Division (United States) World War I: October 23, 1917 - Nov 11, 1918: 4,964 17,201 1,056 23,221 German Empire Harlem Hellfighters: World War I: Apr 8 - Nov 11, 1918 (191 days at the front) 3,832 [note 3] 1500 [25] 40~ German Empire 3rd Infantry Division ...

  7. Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The rank was commonly trusted with positions in food provision supply and quartermaster duties. In the last years of World War II Stabsgefreiters were often used as group leaders Gruppenführer due to a lack of Unteroffiziere (NCOs). Promotions to this rank were suspended in 1934, although existing Stabsgefreiters retained it; promotions ...

  8. Military victories against the odds - Wikipedia

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    During World War II Fritz Klingenberg, leading a reconnaissance patrol into Belgrade, sneaked into the city through enemy lines with just 6 men. [29] The Yugoslav Army had thousands of men stationed in the capital, having retreated to the city from the countryside in order to make a defense against the invading German army.

  9. Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Nazi rank structure in comparison to the Wehrmacht subsection. 1.1 Officer ranks. 1.2 Enlisted. 2 See also. 3 Notes. ... World War II German Army ranks and ...